| I was looking at this once One reason they are inept is those guys usually end up doing all the work themselves, for security reasons (you won't tell random people "hey I will run a drug empire, will you help me?"). So there is a lot to do when you need to build the platform yourself from the ground up; plus, you need to spend a lot of time on moderation and spammers and attackers; and, you need to make the platform easy to use, which sometimes goes against security; read any forum for darknet markets and people always struggle with basic PGP usage. (PGP is used for encryption in darknet markets; Signal-like protocols leak way too much metadata.) Also, people that are good at infosec will not start doing this risky stuff, as they can do something better. There used to be a market that required PGP in all messages, and users hated that, from what I remember. I no longer visit forums for this stuff, but look up "dred", darknet market forum. I always wondered, why are none of the darknets operated from some "rogue state" (like North Korea) or militia-controlled areas, like FARC in Colombia. Or by actual mafias in Russia or Ukraine. But I guess even they are not that dumb and focus on what they know how to do, rather than branching into darknet. |