A while ago, I saw this awesome post about a new information marketplace.
https://pay.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2qhrhb/slur_a_market_for_purchasing_information/
This was an awesome Idea. I haven't heard much more about it, and I wanted to continue discussion of what I think could be a super badass thing.
So I'm going to talk about a few of the concerns expressed in the comments.
1) I see this be used for more than just selling CC info :(
~The concern here is that we would just be facilitating carding and CC trade, which already occurs outside of the market. However, the benefit to Slur is that we would finally be providing an open market designed specifically for information. Although I do feel like CC info is permitted, this would encourage the trade of information on a larger scale. But to expand into CC info specifically, it's important to note that Slur's exact point is to provide the ability for users to sell information with no censorship. Yes, we all think CP and carding is horrible. But the simple ability to be anonymous when exchanging simple information is a good goal to move towards. So, to summarize, that's the point, and Slur gives us the ability to share more than CC info and CP.
2) Information can only be sold once on that service. No one will pay to suppress anything because the anonymous user can then just go to another site and release/sell it again. The only thing it offers is the suppression aspect but it doesn't actually have the ability to do that. Zero day exploits, backdoors, credit card data, stolen databases etc are already being sold on centralized services. At most, some credit card numbers will be sold there to try it out, then then everyone will go back to their old forums.
~ So basically, this problem can easily be fixed. In the show 'Archer', the main character goes over the process of being 'burned'. Basically, an agent, when compromised, has a notice sent out and shared between all of the spy agencies in cooperation, alerting them that this agent is not to be allowed to draw from supplies. That agent is, in essence, blocked off by their name. The SAME thing could happen on this market. Assuming that the market takes off, information markets could become more popular. Although this is a decentralized market, the information that has already been 'sold' could simply be added to a list. This list is then saved to a file that all servers 'selling' information can draw from. This, when on the server, can act like a filter, disallowing listings that provide information that has already been sold.
So I personally think this is an amazing idea. However, there are issues with Slur.
1) Decentralized markets are totally awesome. However, they are ridiculously hard to put into actual action. In my opinion, someone has to be holding the reigns. I'm not sure of the extent to which Slur is decentralized. But in any case, in order to ensure the sale of information only once, there should be some form of admin with the ability to filter.
2) People have talked about how we can currently do this (sell sensitive info) on current darknetmarkets. The problem is as follows: I'm not sure what it is about Slur that makes it special. It seems like a good framework, but I want to see a market that not only makes information available via TOR, but ALSO doesn't require a process that relies so heavily on user participation. These randomly selected arbitrators could very well be 12 year olds who decided to make an account on their daddy's Macbook. At this point, the dispute system falls.
All in all, this is good, but it's too good of an idea to fuck up. Slur creators, how's it coming along?
I would love to help out however I can, and I'd love to hear what the community thinks.
I've looked at slur before. The problem is it offer nothing different from bit message or tor chat deals in my opinion