As a clichĂ©d magazine article on markets would have it, the world is literally 바카라just a click away바카라 from the customer. If you바카라re tired of the shopping expÂerience in the now-familiar jungles of Amazon, there바카라s the quirkier Alibaba for wishful goodies from ÂChina and beyond. But you can바카라t wish for just about anything. Internet as conventional, unadventurous users know it, is just the tip of the iceberg, manned perennially by watchful eyes of governments and corporates alike. Beneath this icy, regulated island stretch vast, unending roots바카라a virtual landscape that is, most efficiently, 바카라beneath the law바카라, a terrain too dark to decipher through algorithms. It is this land that claims to fulfil all the darker wishes.
Ask the genie nicely and, a few file downloads and four or five steps later, India Post would deliver cocaine and other hardcores to your doorstep바카라and not even the messenger would know what바카라s in the message. But recently, sleuths in Hyderabad got a whiff of the fact that drug peddlers were not hanging out shadily in dark alleys, but crouching in front of their computers, placing bulk orders for LSD or Ecstasy from 바카라Dark Net Markets바카라 (DNMs).
The way there isn바카라t that complicaÂted. Through a Virtual Privacy Network (VPN), you install The Onion Router (TOR), a browsing software that layers your clicks from surveillance, ensuring anonymity. From hereon, communÂiÂcÂaÂtion happens through encrypted messaÂges and transactions happen using cryÂpto-currencies such as BitCoin. These combinations manage to keep out peeping Toms (unless they happen to be geeky, over-caffeinated hackers).
바카라TOR alone may not do the trick, but coupled with a VPN, it바카라s all you need to protect your identity on the dark net,바카라 says Raghuveer, a regular buyer on DNMs. Raghuveer first got on DNMs when he moved to a new city and was unable to find the right dealers. He does not reveal what he buys but lets on that there바카라s very little that바카라s not available. The illustrious options on the cart range from psychedelics, opioids, Ecstasy, steroids, benzos, barbiturates and dissociatives to prescription drugs. From among this product line-up, 바카라Indian vendors are particularly big on prescription drugs,바카라 says Ayush Kukreja, another regular custoÂmer. There are antidepressants like Xanax and Valium, antihistamines like Promethazine, and opioid painkillers like Tydol and Tramadol available dirt cheap.
Kukereja marvels at the astonishinÂgly cheap rates at which DNMs provide drugs as compared to street peddlers. His order of 100 251-NBOMe stamps, popularly known as N-Bomb in the market, cost just Rs 15,000, well below the market price. Happy with the buy, he also pla-ced an order for 10 grams of Ecstasy for Rs 6,000, a steal. In the market, Ecstasy costs approximately Rs 3,000 a gram.
After a little hands-on session at a popular, high-rated DNM, Outlook found it takes less than two minutes to log in, choose your poison and its delivery optiÂons, add filters and click the order tab. If you choose an Indian dealer to deliver to your Indian address (a combo available for most hallucinogens), a private courier service delivers it. For interÂnational packages, the world바카라s largest postal service, India Post, becomes the drug mule.
This inglorious distinction is not resÂerved for India alone. Almost all drug pushers on DNMs use their country바카라s postal service for inland and air mail delÂiveries since they are the cheapest and most reliable, especially for high-value international deals. Some offer tracking numbers바카라over encrypted, PGP-protecÂted emails바카라but only for high-value, bulk consignments. Sleuths say in most cases sniffer dogs don바카라t work. Canine squads can sniff out cocaine and heroin but LSD and MDMA바카라both colourless and Âodourless바카라are beyond them.
바카라When packages come from specific Latin American countries like Brazil and Colombia or West European countries like Netherlands, Germany and so forth, we intimate the enforcement wing,바카라 says Dr V.P.S. Reddy, postmaster general, HydÂerabad. 바카라All we request is that they take no more than 24 hours for their scrutÂiny. Beyond six hours, a complaint can be raised even with the prime minister바카라s public grievance portal.바카라 Since July, his office has been submitting a daily average of 50 suspicious parcels for scrutiny.
Trouble is, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is only 바카라theoretically equipped to handle drug deals fixed over the net.바카라 After Hyderabad, it바카라s got a better fix on the ways of the dark web and its external logistical mechanisms. LogicaÂlly, it could move on to a fuller crackdown, but the NCB is already understaffed and is saddled with other vast 바카라on-ground바카라 dutÂies such as busting illegal opium rackets, and trafficking in heroin and other drugs.
Just over a month ago, the FBI along with Europol and enforcement agencies in six countries claimed to have shut down two of the world바카라s largest markets on the dark web바카라AlphaBay and Hansa바카라both associated with trade in drugs, guns, personal data and computer viruses. But within a day or two, the agencies noted that Hansa was back up again, listing the same dealers in a new avatar.
According to Europol, there are over 40,000 vendors on the dark web. Also, over 2.5 lakh listings for narcotics and such like, plus another lakh listings for stolen and fraudulent identification documents, counterfeit goods, malware, computer hacking tools, firearms and fraudulent services. AlphaBay reported it has serviced over 2,00,000 users till date.
Of this astonishing number of vendors and users, many are Indian. One IndÂian dark-net narco, the 4.8/5-star-Ârated Madlyfooted, reportedly advertises, 바카라Let바카라s make Indian DNM scene bright again.바카라 Another vendor, HariPotter, says, 바카라Fed up of customs seizing your order or local vendors charging you through the roof? We바카라re here to ensure it doesn바카라t Âhappen anymore.바카라
When Silk Road, one of the first DNMs into drugs, was brought down by the FBI in October 2013, it arrested founder Ross William Ulbricht aka 바카라Dread Pirate Roberts바카라 and seized 1,44,000 Bitcoins worth $28.5 million from him. According to Carnegie Mellon researcher Nicholas Christin, Silk Road grossed $1.2 million a month in the first half of 2012. Since then the site upped its listings, and buyers, and grossed an average annual rate of $30 million. By September 2013, it was up to $45 million. Just like Hansa, Silk Road 2.0 came online only a month after the first was taken down.
For some, it바카라s about more than just the trade or 바카라doing drugs바카라. After an interview with Roberts, tech journalist Andy Greenberg wrote, 바카라He sees himself not just as an enabler of street-corner pushers but also as a radical libertarian revolutionary carving out an anarchic digital space beyond the reach of the taxation and regulatory powers of the State바카라JulÂian Assange with a hypodermic needle.바카라
(Some names changed on request)
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The 바카라Goody바카라 Bag
They바카라ve been running in city streets for decades. Now, the dark web sells them too.
LSD/Acid
(Lysergic acid diethylamide)
In the 1960s, the US army is known to have 바카라experimented바카라 with this psychotropic chemical compound. After little success, LSD was soon declared banned substance. It is a hallucinogenic, with users experiencing 바카라elevated바카라 states of mind.
Cocaine
Latin-American druglords made 바카라Charlie바카라 most popular in the 1970s. Coke is an upper, used to boost the mood by creating a rush. The cheap street version of the drug, called 바카라crack바카라, is much more dangerous than cocaine and has wreaked havoc in the West.
MDMA/ Ecstasy
(Methylenedioxymetham-phetamine)
Classified as a party drug that creates a 바카라happy feeling바카라 by reducing inhibitions. Was prescribed and sold legally for nearly 20 years before being banned. Dangerous chemicals are sometimes added to enhance the effect. It is consumed as a pill or liquid.
Methamphetamine
An 바카라upper바카라 like ecstasy and cocaine, used widely in the party circuit. Cheaper than others, the pill is spiked with raw caffeine powder. Aka Crystal Meth, it is smoked in glass pipes and is highly addictive. It has the same harmful effects as heroin.
