Security News > 2021 > March > The Case for Taking Down Dark Web Sites

Ever since the first dark web monitoring services became available, around 2005, consumers of such services often asked - why aren't these websites being taken down? After all, the sites that comprise the dark web are platforms and tools for illegal activities.

There is a case to be made for adopting the other strategy - disrupt the dark web as much as possible - and it seems that unlike the early days of dark web monitoring, it is not one that is discussed at all.

Despite all the reasons above, should we consider trying to take down dark web sites? To answer that, we first need to talk about what the dark web is.

This is the driving force behind the strategy of taking down dark web sites - they are not just intelligence sources to security vendors and law enforcement, they're also sources for criminals.

Just like the denizens of the dark web vary in sophistication, so are the sites that are part of it.

Taking down dark web sites may cause headache for both the bad guys and the good guys, but it can also have a profound positive effect on the fight against cybercrime as a whole, for all organizations, as it can take many criminals or would-be criminals out of the equation.

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