Problem Statement and Annotated Bibliography(600-700 words)

Illegal activities in the dark web have turned out to be a nightmare for law enforcement agencies around the globe. The dark web provides anonymity to its users, and so users cannot be tracked when they engage in illegal online activities. The identity of dark web users is hidden, allowing cybercriminals to get away with crimes such as facilitating the exchange of child pornography, facilitating drug deals and illegal fireman deals, and the selling of stolen personal information. Today, the dark web has to a great extent created a supply chain for all sorts of unethical activities.  This problem has strengthened the hacker community and has made the war against cybercrimes extremely difficult and unending.

  If no sound action is adopted to combat this, computer scientists will be met with a burden of responsibilities in the future. The society will cease to be a safe haven for innocent individuals. The invention of the dark web was guided by positive reasons. The Federal government created the dark web to enable the anonymous exchange of information between government spies. This anonymity slowly started attracting the attention of unscrupulous individuals, who begun viewing the dark web as a money-minting platform. In 2013, Law enforcement authorities managed to shut down the Silk Road website, which was a hotbed for online trafficking of narcotics. Law enforcement authorities last year also managed to take down the Dream Dark web Market notorious for narcotics transactions. Their success can be attributed to the heavy investments in sophisticated technologies to specifically address dark-web related crimes.