See “A Snapshot of How the Dark Web Works.” The Workshop Design and Objectives “Taken together,” said the RAND report on the workshop and its results, “the high-priority needs identified during the workshop represent a way to prepare law enforcement at all levels to better address the challenge posed by cybercrime, now and into the future.”Ī key problem for law enforcement spotlighted by the workshop experts is a lack of knowledge of how the dark web operates and how criminals have begun to use it, the report said. Nineteen needs were deemed high-priority, across four general subject areas: training, organizational cooperation and information-sharing, tool development, and other problems and opportunities. In all, the experts’ workshop identified 40 problems or opportunities and 46 potential solutions or needs related to dark web investigations.
Research on Crime Connections - researching the increasingly connected nature of crime to help law enforcement recognize and address both highly visible traditional crime and the less-visible crime on the dark web. New Laws for Package Inspection - researching ways to modernize laws facilitating inspection of packages shipped by mail or other services. New Forensic Standards - developing new standards for forensic tools to collect dark web evidence on computers. New Structures for Cooperation - examining the benefits of building cross-organization structures for cooperation. Information-Sharing - improving information-sharing among agencies, both domestically and internationally. 
Training - training officers and investigators to spot relevant dark web evidence. Organized on behalf of NIJ by RAND and the Police Executive Research Forum, the experts’ workshop yielded high-level recommendations focused on the following: The group included experts from federal, state, and local agencies academic researchers and civil rights advocates. To raise the visibility of the dark web among law enforcement agencies and identify tools that can help them police it, an NIJ-supported gathering of experts identified law enforcement’s key dark web challenges and opportunities, as well as high-priority needs for addressing them. The dark web’s anonymity not only encourages illegal activities, it keeps many law enforcement agencies largely unaware of its existence, even while their jurisdictions are impacted by online transactional crimes. The criminal side of the dark web relies on anonymizing technology and cryptocurrency to hide its trade in an assortment of contraband such as opioids and other drugs, bomb parts, weapons large and small, child pornography, social security numbers, body parts - even criminal acts for hire. Although the dark web still accounts for just a fraction of all illicit sales online, it appears poised for rapid growth, according to the report. The report, “Identifying Law Enforcement Needs for Conducting Criminal Investigations Involving Evidence on the Dark Web,” explores better ways to investigate dark web crimes. 
One site alone generated an estimated $219 million in annual revenue as of 2017, according to a new NIJ-supported report by the RAND Corporation (RAND). The anonymity of illicit activity on the dark web cloaks an enterprise of mounting concern to authorities. On the bad side, the dark web has emerged as an important hub of criminal commerce, a fully functional marketplace where hidden customers can buy from hidden sellers with relative confidence, often with customer ratings available, just as on the public-facing web.
On the good side, the dark web provides anonymous, highly secure communication channels to shield classified government activity and protect reform agents such as human rights activists and journalists opposed by oppressive foreign regimes. The “dark web” is an internet shadow world where the good and the bad co-exist.
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