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THE BIG IDEA
THE IT SOCIETY / Issue 01/2022
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The Dark Web: Two Truths and Two Myths
In 2019, famous ex-fraudster Frank Abagnale Jr. claimed that what he did in his heyday would have been 4,000 times easier today with the internet1. Despite law enforcement agencies pulling out the big guns these days to look for cyber criminals – there exists a hidden corner of the web where drug markets operate and weapons go on sale. What is the Dark Web – and can you find them all? 1
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/famous-con-man-frank-abagnale-crime-is-4000-times-easier-today
MARVIN TAN Member, SCS Senior Vice-President, GIC
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ndeed, we see scammers on the rise on social media and hate crimes perpetrating through the internet. This is despite governments constantly on the move trying to monitor what goes on in the digital world. So where do people go to avoid being caught? That would be the Dark Web.
