A Qualitative Evaluation of Two Different Law Enforcement Approaches on Dark Net Markets

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Title	A Qualitative Evaluation of Two Different Law Enforcement Approaches on Dark Net Markets
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2019
Authors	Bradley, Cerys, Stringhini, Gianluca
Conference Name	2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS PW)
Date Published	June 2019
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN Number	978-1-7281-3026-2
Keywords	Cybercrime, Dark Net Market users, dark web, dark-web, DNM ecosystem, drug-markets, forum users, Human Behavior, human factors, Internet, law administration, law enforcement interventions, law-enforcement, Operation Bayonet, Operation Hyperion, policy, pubcrawl, qualitative, qualitative analysis, qualitative evaluation, Reddit forums, social networking (online)
Abstract	This paper presents the results of a qualitative study on discussions about two major law enforcement interventions against Dark Net Market (DNM) users extracted from relevant Reddit forums. We assess the impact of Operation Hyperion and Operation Bayonet (combined with the closure of the site Hansa) by analyzing posts and comments made by users of two Reddit forums created for the discussion of Dark Net Markets. The operations are compared in terms of the size of the discussions, the consequences recorded, and the opinions shared by forum users. We find that Operation Bayonet generated a higher number of discussions on Reddit, and from the qualitative analysis of such discussions it appears that this operation also had a greater impact on the DNM ecosystem.
URL	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8802416
DOI	10.1109/EuroSPW.2019.00057
Citation Key	bradley_qualitative_2019

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