Untangling the Dark Web: Unmasking Onion Services

Presented at Hackfest 2016, Nov. 5, 2016, 3:30 p.m. (Unknown duration).

Life is difficult when you run an anonymous service. Being anonymous means being hyper vigilant and eternally aware, but just how many service operators are up to the challenge?

This is not your typical dark web presentation, this talk will demonstrate just how bad small opsec failures can be, how hints of metadata can unravel an entire operation and what happens when you scan the whole onionsphere trying to find patterns.

But let us not forgot, breaking is only half the battle, this talk will also explore how we can build stronger anonymous systems, for a more private and secure future.


Presenters:

  • Sarah Jamie Lewis
    Sarah Jamie Lewis is a security researcher currently living in Vancouver Canada. She has a passion for privacy and anonymity, and runs the OnionScan project, dedicated to discovering and improving anonymous communities. In the past Sarah worked as a Computer Scientist for the British Government and she is currently a Security Engineer at Amazon analyzing threat models and designing defenses to protect against fraud and security risks.

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