Acknowledgments
Abstract
Contents
Introduction
The Darknet
The Tor Browser
The Darknet Marketplace
Drug Dealers and Buyers Going Online
Communication: PGP Encryption
Cryptocurrencies
Marketplace Income
Marketplace Rules
The End of a Marketplace
Feedback Is Everything
Returning buyer looking for vendor
Motivation
Thesis Statement
Key Assumptions
Chapter Summary
Thesis Outline
Related Work
Drug dealers to Vendors
Correlation Problem
Correlation Methods
Summary
Data Set Preprocessing
Raw Data Sets
Information Scraper: Collecting the Attributes
Before Implementing Scraper
Deciding Unique ID
Common Attributes in a Data Point
Uncommon Attributes in a Data Point
Data Integration
Summary
Methodology
Problem Statement
PGP Correlation
Username Feature Vector
Reusing TF-IDF: GF-IUF
GF-IUF feature vector
Basic Feature Vector
Updating the data points
Computing Similarity
Procedure to Verify Hypothesis
Summary
Vendor Behaviors and Observation
Before Experiment
Vendors use usernames as "brands"
Experiments
Results
Discussion
Hypothesis Conclusion
Username Modification
Experiment
Results
Discussion
Summary
Conclusion
Future Work
Appendices
Final Project Description
Study Contract
Description of Software
Readme
Download the data sets
Files to modify:
Running the progrmas
Optional
Assumptions
Snippets of HTML files