Germany in the deep web

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Germany in the deep web
Information control, no thanks!
German-language Internet forum in the Darknet
languages German
operator DiDW: Alexander U. (luckyspax)

DiDW2: "Younam" (pseudonym)

DiDW3: "sudo" (pseudonym)

user over 23 thousand (according to BKA), over 35 thousand (according to heise.de)

Currently registered members: 4150

Registration optional
On-line 2013
http://germany2igel45jbmjdipfbzdswjcpjqzqozxt4l33452kzrrda2rbid.onion

Germany in the Deep Web (also: DiDW for short ) was the largest German-speaking Darknet forum . It can only be accessed as an onion service via the Tor network. The site was confiscated by the Federal Criminal Police Office in June 2017 and has been launched several times since then under new Internet addresses.

content

With over 23,000 registered users ( heise.de speaks of over 35,000) and an average of 6 million page views per month, according to the BKA, the site was the largest German-language website on the Darknet. Although the site was primarily a discussion forum and chat and also dealt with legal topics such as the exchange of opinions and experiences on IT security or anonymization and pseudonymization and political topics and conspiracy theories , it was also used for the illegal sale of weapons and drugs and criminal orders and the exchange of hacking and forgery instructions. The site was a pioneer in escrow since the goods fraud should be reduced by a multi-signature-wallet system.

history

The website was launched in 2013 at germanyhusicaysx.onion .

The forum gained media attention when it became known that the perpetrator of the rampage in Munich in 2016 had acquired his weapon through it. This also led to the introduction of stricter laws on illegal forums and websites. The investigator of the Federal Criminal Police Office with the pseudonym Gazza wrote to the admin luckyspax (foruminternally also called lucky), real name Alexander U., 31 years old and computer scientist , and pointed out a security gap to him and asked him to talk to the DiDW XMPP Server. Gazza had registered on August 23, 2016 and had already written 55 posts and scouted out several members. The investigators were able to find out the address of the administrator in Karlsruhe by tracing the donations that were paid for using Bitcoin and came across Alexander U.'s Bitcoin.de account, through which he had the donations paid out to his private account. The investigators used, among other things, targeted attacks such as SQL injection to ensure that the administrator was logged into the computer at the time of the police access.

In June 2017, the forum was seized and shut down during a search of Alexander U.'s house by the Federal Criminal Police Office on behalf of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Frankfurt am Main .

In November 2017, a process began against Alexander U., the sole administrator, before the Karlsruhe Regional Court for negligent homicide in nine cases, negligent bodily harm in five cases and aiding and abetting the illicit trade in weapons and intoxicants. Alexander U., on the other hand, claimed that it was important to him to create a platform in which one can communicate and surf anonymously in times of mass surveillance. He was in custody arrested and on 19 December 2017 at the age of 6 imprisonment convicted. The sentence originally requested by the prosecutor was supposed to be over nine years. 600 other traders were convicted. In January 2018, the seller of the gun to the gunman in Munich was sentenced to seven years in prison.

The alternative website DiDW 2, which was launched in 2018, was switched off after a year by the administrator without giving any reason. Ten days later, however, the successor DiDW 3 was started until it was temporarily unavailable on March 18, 2019 as a result of a series of threatening letters to courts and institutions against right-wing extremism by a DiDW user. In May 2019, after the shutdown of various large darknet addresses, DiDW 3 went online again. Child pornography and the trade in firearms and explosives are also expressly prohibited in the new forum .

Aftermath

Since the legal situation of illegal forums in the darknet and deep web has not been sufficiently clarified and there is a question about the complicity of operators, the Federal Council launched a legislative initiative on March 15, 2019 for the penalties for operators of illegal trading platforms on the Internet. Investigative authorities should also receive more information from Deutsche Post about what data protectionists see critically. The law should be listed in the Criminal Code under Section 126a and should make it possible to impose a prison sentence of up to three years for the operator when offering services to enable criminal offenses via an internet-based service that are limited by special technical precautions. Paragraph 99 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is also to be changed in such a way that it enables investigators to obtain information about the mail received and sent by suspects. Furthermore, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is calling for a revised version of the IT Security Act , which should enable the authorities to adopt virtual identities without authorization, to obtain more information from service providers and to break into systems without authorization.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ heise online: Operator of a darknet forum in Karlsruhe arrested. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c German Darknet size: How "Lucky" was unmasked - Golem.de. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Stefan Mey: Darknet: weapons, drugs, whistleblowers . CH Beck, 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72898-3 ( google.de [accessed on July 29, 2019]).
  4. ↑ c't editors: c't Security (2019): Learning from the Darknet . Heise Medien GmbH & Co. KG, 2019, ISBN 978-3-95788-228-8 ( google.de [accessed on July 29, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Busted illegal platform germanyhusicaysx.onion? In: tarnkappe.info . June 12, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The Merchant of Death. August 25, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ a b heise online: Trial of Darkweb Forum: Pleadings revolve around complicity in the attack. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ heise online: Trial of Darkweb Forum: How differently the investigators proceeded. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ heise online: Process around Darkweb forum: responsibility of the operator for the arms deals. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  10. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany, Ronen Steinke, Hakan Tanriverdi: How investigators took "Germany in the Deep Web" offline. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  11. ↑ encounter with Lucky by DIDW: Interview with a former prison inmates. In: tarnkappe.info . July 23, 2019, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Abendzeitung Germany: OEZ attack: Long prison sentence for operators of Darknet platform. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  13. ↑ SWR Aktuell, SWR Aktuell: Six years imprisonment in the Karlsruhe Darknet Trial. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  14. ↑ a b DiDW: Operator Lucky has to go to prison for six years. In: tarnkappe.info . December 21, 2018, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  15. ↑ heise online: Trial of Darkweb Forum DiDW: Six years imprisonment for administrator. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  16. ↑ SWR Aktuell, SWR Aktuell: Darknet process: Public prosecutor's office calls for more than nine years in prison. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  17. ↑ heise online: Forum in the dark web: Process illuminates the approach of an assassin and the investigation. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  18. ↑ tagesschau.de: Munich amok run: imprisonment for operators of darknet portal. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  19. ↑ DiDW: Successor available at germanyruvvy2tcw.onion. In: tarnkappe.info . January 15, 2019, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  20. ↑ MadTrick ----- BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE ----- Hash: SHA512 Hi folks, MadT - Pastebin.com. February 3, 2020, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  21. ↑ DiDW 3 finally offline. In: tarnkappe.info . March 18, 2019, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  22. ^ After a nationwide series of threatening letters: Another threatening mail emerged after suspect was arrested. April 9, 2019, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  23. ↑ DiDW online again after Busts. In: tarnkappe.info . May 9, 2019, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Legal initiative of the Federal Council: New criminal offense trading platform operator in the Darknet - Golem.de. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  25. ↑ IT Security Act 2.0: More powers for security authorities - Golem.de. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Reporters Without Borders: Study criticizes Darknet paragraph as unnecessary - Golem.de. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  27. ↑ DiDW: Criminal liability loophole should be closed - Lucky under indictment. In: tarnkappe.info . August 13, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .