Yet with that comes danger, because, frankly, many of the people on the dark web are better at computer security and digital espionage than you are. And with the dark web, that’s definitely not someplace you want any trace of your investigators’ activities. The dark web is populated by crackers, hackers, state-sponsored bad actors and other really clever people. The dark web folks are smarter than you are — or at least, you must assume this is the case. This can let researchers gather information without revealing their identity or exposing any of their resources for adversaries to exploit.

Source: Forbes October 12, 2020 11:20 UTC