It varies in severity from copyright piracy to drug markets to horrendous trafficking of humans and exploitation of women and children.”
I think 95 percent of what we see on the onion sites and other dark net sites is just criminal activity. “We had all these hopeful things in the beginning but ever since Silk Road has proven you can do it, the criminal use of Tor has become overwhelming. “What’s changed most about Tor is the drug markets have taken over,” Lewman said. As Lewman spoke to CyberScoop last month in between two of those meetings, it became clear that his perspective on the software has shifted. Now, as the newly minted vice president of dark web intel firm OWL Cybersecurity, his meetings with governments have gone from educating officials on how people use Tor to helping law enforcement investigate criminal activity occurring on Tor. Nearly two years to the day since Andrew Lewman quit his job as executive director of Tor, the anonymity software meant to shield users from government intervention, he found himself rushing between meetings with European law enforcement.īoosted by endorsements from internet activists like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, Lewman had been at the helm of Tor as it became synonymous with internet user privacy.
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