Papers with Darknet
The Language of Legal and Illegal Activity on the Darknet (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | a study of the characteristics of text in the Darknet shows that it has legal and illegal content. |
| Approach: | They compare texts for selling legal and illegal drugs to a control condition . they find several distinguishing features between legal and illicit texts . |
| Outcome: | The authors compare legal and illegal texts to a clear net website with similar content as a control condition. |
VendorLink: An NLP approach for Identifying & Linking Vendor Migrants & Potential Aliases on Darknet Markets (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Anonymity on the Darknet allows vendors to stay undetected by using multiple vendor aliases or frequently migrating between markets. |
| Approach: | They propose an NLP-based approach that examines writing patterns to verify, identify, and link unique vendor accounts across text advertisements on seven public Darknet markets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can help law enforcement agencies make more informed decisions by verifying and identifying migrating vendors and their potential aliases on existing and Low-Resource (LR) emerging Darknet markets. |