Paper Info
Title
A Qualitative Evaluation of Two Different Law Enforcement Approaches on Dark Net Markets
Abstract
This paper presents the results of a qualitative study on discussions about two major law enforcement interventions against Dark Net Market (DNM) users extracted from relevant Reddit forums. We assess the impact of Operation Hyperion and Operation Bayonet (combined with the closure of the site Hansa) by analyzing posts and comments made by users of two Reddit forums created for the discussion of Dark Net Markets. The operations are compared in terms of the size of the discussions, the consequences recorded, and the opinions shared by forum users. We find that Operation Bayonet generated a higher number of discussions on Reddit, and from the qualitative analysis of such discussions it appears that this operation also had a greater impact on the DNM ecosystem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/EuroSPW.2019.00057
2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW)
Keywords
Field
DocType
cybercrime,policy,law-enforcement,qualitative,drug-markets,dark-web
Internet privacy,Computer science,Cybercrime,Theoretical computer science,Deep Web,Law enforcement,Qualitative research
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-3027-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cerys Bradley100.34
Gianluca Stringhini270161.87