Since its development by the Office of Naval Research and release nearly two decades ago, Tor has directed communications and commerce with the purpose of concealing the identities of its users against network surveillance or analysis. The imperfect anonymity provided by Tor, and the rest of the dark web, is exploited by users with unlawful intent to aid in the commission of, and commerce related to, a variety of crimes. While on social media and the rest of the internet or conducting other business with a reputable public persona, some users assume that the anonymity of the dark web allows them to vanish or take cover in another identity, conduct transactions in cryptocurrency and hide all traces of their criminal activities. Yet, it is an imperfect anonymity and one that does not resist analysis under all circumstances. In this session, you will see live demonstrations of how to uncover the connections between dark web activity and a human being in the real world using freely available tools and techniques.

You Will Learn How To:

• Identify resources for cryptocurrency tracking
• Identify indications of cryptocurrency mechanisms
• Evaluate and map out cryptocurrency exchanged for attribution
• Apply practical, freely available tools to the challenge of connecting a dark web identity to a real-world human perpetrator