Darknet Shopper Bot Back In Business: Who Is Culpable For Illegal Purchases?
Random Darknet Shopper, an automated, online bot that searches the Darknet and buys random items using a weekly $100 bitcoin budget, is back in business following a hiatus last year when it was temporarily confiscated by St. Gallen, Switzerland legal authorities. Last week, the bot, created by a European art group Mediengruppe Bitnik, purchased a fake Lacoste polo shirt for $35, according to Digital Trends. The bot is programmed to randomly select and buy one item on the Darknet and send it to the art group's exhibition space. The Mediengruppe Bitnik website describes the shopper as "an....
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The Random Darknet Shopper is back! Random Darknet Shopper was an infamous shopping bot that scoured the deep web and purchased merchandise at random. Developed by an art group known as Mediengruppe Bitnik, the bot made its appearance in the deep web last year before running into trouble with law enforcement authorities in Switzerland. All purchases made by Random Darknet Shopper are made part of Mediengruppe Bitnik's exhibition. The articles that were on display last year at the exhibition held in Kunst Halle St. Gallen were composed of a diverse variety of merchandise including ecstasy....
There is one thing that we never manage to get it right. Any guesses? Yes, it is the grocery list! No matter how careful you are, you usually forget to buy one thing or another (I wonder why people always forget to buy milk). Imagine how easy life will be if you could automate your shopping with a bot. However, that's what got these guys into trouble. As a part of an exhibition, Mediengruppe Bitnik - An art group created a shopping bot called Random Darknet Shopper. True to its name, Random Darknet Shopper randomly bought stuff off the deep web by paying in Bitcoins. The bot was programmed....
In an effort to uncover the hidden darker parts of the internet, Swiss group Mediengruppe Bitnik created a bitcoin robot as an art installation. The robot is given $100 every week to purchase random items from Agora, an online marketplace where one can buy drugs and other illegal items. The bitcoin robot managed to use its $100 to buy Ecstasy, a Hungarian passport, and a baseball cap before getting arrested. Other purchases included fake Diesel jeans, a Sprite can with a hole cut out in order to stash cash, Nike trainers, a baseball cap with a hidden camera, cigarettes and the "Lord of the....
European law enforcement agency Europol has taken down an underground marketplace on darknet that was booked for promoting child pornography and selling illegal goods. In a statement made right after the darknet’s shutdown, Europol credited the Italian police department as its ally in driving their two-year long “Operation Babylon” to its rightful conclusion. They recognize the undercover officers, who penetrated into the illegal community, and leaked details back to their departments. The investigation agencies was also cooperating with the FBI with hopes to identify each and every....
Furthermore, one of the four arrested individuals possessed Bitcoin at the time of the raid. According to sources, there was 340,000 EUR worth of Bitcoin in his wallet. German police officials have arrested four individuals suspected of selling drugs on the darknet. Keeping in mind how government officials and law enforcement agencies are cracking down on deep web users all over the country, this news is not entirely surprising. All four arrested individuals were active on a German darknet forum. Buying and selling drugs is illegal, and the darknet is no exception to this rule. Then again,....