OK, this is by no means something that I want to try and do :-) I'm writing a story about a low-level dark web user / moderator who discovers the real life identity of the founder of a multi-million dollar illegal drug marketplace. I know there would be no one way to go about doing this, but I'm pretty clueless as to steps the character would attempt to illicit this information. If they had the owners email, spoke with them via chat, had some access to the back-end of the marketplace, but not all of it - are there any code / information they may look out for to help them discover who this person was?
Any thoughts to help me make this as believable as possible would be great!!!
Thanks
Why don't you check how people got caught (silk road, alpha bay, oxymonster, ...) and try something along those lines?