@dahspaymag, can activity really be tracked on the dark web back to the original source?I

 thoughts that communication on the dark web is encrypted end to end, and that it can only be decrypted by the intended receiver.

If Sixgill really could pull this off, this will be a game changer.

The scary thing is to consider future uses of this technology, maybe they partner with Facebook or AT&T - and cross analyze the times they see the darknet forum posters online with the times Facebook or AT&T users, then compare language syntax and Grammer with those narrowed down FB users. 

Maybe then they cross check that with other social media to build comprehensive profiles.

Of coarse this doesn't stop with the darkweb,  there are various Governmental and Corporate actors doing this right now to activists and anti government persons. Israel is well known for Psy-op and Disinformation campaigns as well as targeting activists.



Most recently "Hacking Team" - a tech company that sells "offensive intrusion and surveillance capabilities" (spyware) was caught selling its surveillance technology to countries with horrible human rights records...

[**A DETAILED LOOK AT HACKING TEAM’S EMAILS ABOUT ITS REPRESSIVE CLIENTS**](https://theintercept.com/2015/07/07/leaked-documents-confirm-hacking-team-sells-spyware-repressive-countries/)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Team

Here's a really good clip of billionaire Mark Cuban - which you can guarantee has met with some of the big companies doing this - warning of these future technologies and the need to go back and clean up your social media often.

http://youtu.be/URqAeji2jeU

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If that's true then: Sixgill = "the new evil"!

But I highly doubt any of those things Sixgill claims it is capable are true! To accomplish even remotely such things, one would need huuuge resources, resources just governements like the USA, UK ect could provide (Billions of Dollars) but not an isreali "start up". And even with those resources you just can't (at least not at this moment) de-anonymize i.e. Tor users (unless you single out one specific target/person or theymessed up their Opsec). And that's just one "Darknet", there still plenty of other "darknets" or anonymization technics beside the Tor network. With more to come.
And that is just the anonymization part, there is still the encryption part. For example the proper use of pgp/gpg is un-crackable at the moment, Tor traffic is encrypted multiple times too, and things like Vera-Crypt for hdd and os encryption are (if used properly) un-crackable at the moment too.

My personal conclusion:
Sisgill makes bold claims that are probably just false.

Two other things I'd like to point out:
1.
The deep web isn't equal the dark net!
The Deep Web:
90% of the internet consist of  the deep web. Deep web just means that the deep web is just not accessible by the broad public and/or public search engines.

The dark nets:
Dark nets are part of the internet that provide anonymous web/data-hosting and anonymous surfing/using for it's users. Examples: Tor Network, i2p, freenet..

2.
Terroist do NOT use the dark net and "heavy encryption" (i.e. pgp/gpg) yet!

So far only (but plenty) evidence exist that terrorists do NOT use the "dark net". Even when the media and authorities claimed, after a terror attack, that the terrorists used heavy encryption and the darknet to plan and execute the attack, it later turned out to be wrong/a lie. Unless it was already a build in encryption (iPhone, Telegram App,..since of lately Whatsapp).

This might change pretty soon, since terrorists also watch the news and if the media and authorities keep telling them that "they" use the darknet and "heavy encryption" they WILL of course look into that at some point. But at least till now they use facebook, twitter, "clearnet websites", whatsapp, telegram and youtube.

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I'm not entirely sure how they can track activity on the darkweb back to the original source by discovering a communication port that is going through an anonymous network. 

Even if Sixgill's algorithms could intercept a message between 2 people, that message is most likely being sent over a pgp and is absolutely not going to be read by anyone but the intended receiver who holds the key to view it.  

Sixgill Claims their monitoring is absolutely anonymous and cannot be tracked or blocked on the darkweb by its users, isn't that the whole point of accessing the Darkweb in the first place?

It sounds to me like Sixgill will be roaming an anonymous network intercepting encrypted data and collecting useless addresses that can't be traced back to a valuable source. I will continue to read up on this. 

Thank you for the write, and the countless hours I'm going to spend now researching Sixgill. 

haha 

Appreciate your time.

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Keep up the great work @dashpaymag 
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