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    My deep dive into one of the largest dark web hacking forums | Dylan Curran

    I spent three weeks studying FreeHacks, one of the dark web’s biggest platform for hackers. From passports to credit cards, nothing is safe
    by Dylan Curran Jul 24, 2018 4 minutes
    ‘I spent three weeks studying and translating FreeHacks, one of the largest hacking forums on the internet.’ Photograph: screengrab

    The darknet (or dark web) is one of the most fascinating vestiges of humanity we’ve ever seen. It’s an aggregated swamp of all the darkest aspects of internet activity – child abuse images, drug markets, gun shops, gore smut, stolen merchandise, anarchist guides, terrorist chats, identity theft, hacking services …

    I’m going to focus on the most potent of these tiers – hacking services.

    I spent three weeks studying and translating FreeHacks, one of the largest hacking forums on the internet. It’s a Russian community which aims to collectively gather its resources in order to maximize efficiency and knowledge dispersement.

    It works the same as any typical forum, you open up

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