The modern technology with anonymity feature is outweighed by the bad side of it. Anonymity has created so much opportunity for the monster of the digital realm of the Internet letting them get away with their illegal activities and also giving them full confidence to do it again because thanks to the Internet the hacker in the police station isn’t as far elite as the bad ones. There are three things which letting these ‘modern Ghosts’ do whatever they want. To do something online anonymously you have to connect to the Internet, through VPNs and proxies, have some untraceable currency, host a website which is untraceable, then there you have it you are good to go and of course if only one know how to use these appropriately he can buy or sell an illegal weapons, buy or sell drugs, be or hire hitman, etc… So, if there is this anonymity feature in the Internet why be proud of that instead of doing more work to de anonymize it. I believe there is something to be done here because anything is possible if in fact we have untenable ‘anything’ goal.
Materials available on the Internet are so vast, touching almost every discipline throughout major languages. This materials can and have full potential to be used in an unpleasant way, have the potential to get in the wrong hands. Wrong hands of a person who is inspired by some hacker movie, wrong hand of a person who is brainwashed by the society, etc.. And in fact the majority of the materials can be found for free which makes it easy to access if in fact one knows where to look. cyber securities are organizations which protects other organizations, persons, or platform’s network and data from cyber attacks. And one can find enough resources to know it all. All security holes and vulnerabilities which of course every network has no matter how secure it is, it is inevitable so these are enough claims to prove that one can be as good as anyone who struggles to protect someone, with extra benefits of course .
Proxies are protocols, encryption protocols, for users to secure their browsing lines encrypting both ends/nodes of the network giving them full confidence of intractability. And in fact they have it, if only one have done it right of course . This proxy allows users to host an untraceable website of any content; legal, illegal or unwritten legalities on some third world countries in most cases. And one can find many stuffs in these websites and fetch anything they wish. in fact most of these sites are scams Using the users psychology on the knowledge of intractability and user experience of the websites which makes it look like ‘legit’ site’. But if one knows where and how to look, he can make use of these sites regardless of morality or legality. Matter of fact many western states have issued that it’s illegal to visit many sites. But anonymity have outweighed it and many illegal sites are getting traffic from all around the globe m, regardless of the laws issued.
Trading has been one of the oldest habits of human beings giving vast benefit creating win win situation throughout history. And since these sites are giving services based up on anonymity, they need an untraceable and decentralized currency to trade on. And here is crypto currencies come in play. One can sell illegal missile, drugs, or even nuclear weapons using these currencies which cant be traced If used in the right way. in fact Bitcoin, one of the most popular crypto currencies, Is trackable in a way if it is used to buy things from illegal sites, but consequently, there are hundreds of crypto currencies which uses complex hash algorithms making them almost impossible to be traced. And this is where mixing crypto currencies come into play. Mix your bitcoin with others like Montero and Lightning, there you have it. You are ghost! Matter of fact these transactions are public, where one can see millions of dollars worth of crypto currencies go to some address. Could be to terrorists, to NGOs or to charities. What one can know is that it is transacted. Don’t mistaken that there’s always illegal thing going on when asked bitcoin for transaction even though it may seem suspicious. Even the big nations and 1% of the wealthy people use these currencies to make large transactions since the old ones are relatively inconvenient. What the real danger is when it is used for the wrong purpose. Many trading sites gets hacked and people are invading taxes on IRS because its untraceable. Despite the fact that IRS has offered 650,000$ bounty to whomever crack Monero, no man have come to accomplish this yet. And I believe it is because there isn’t enough effort being put to de anonymize than anonymizing it more by strengthening its encryption algorithm.
With all being said, all these evolution of digital realm of the world is giving unlimited opportunity for everyone. And I believe there is something to be done here. I certainly don’t know how, but it can be done. And I believe that this would bring the worst in society in the near future. If the progression continues to go on how it went with the past decade. As I said everything has a vulnerability, even the bad ones it’s just a matter of how to look and more of how smart to look into it. And I believe it’s out responsibility to keep our planet safe for everyone.