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October General Meeting
Catching Criminal Activity on Darknet Markets
Speaker: Timur Kudabaev
Tor solves a network-layer problem, but running a hidden service is a systems administration problem. This presentation will describe how onion services actually work, and the kinds of mistakes that got operators, vendors, and buyers arrested, based on what we know from court filings. These include things like VPN misconfiguration, a KYC record at an exchange, and a metadata-stripping tool that had quietly changed hands. Catching illicit behaviour is difficult, and the cases we hear about are the ones where something went wrong.
Timur is a math student at the University of Waterloo. He has been using Linux for five years and does systems and network programming.
707 Fifth
707 - 5 St. S.W.
Fourth floor, Black Duck office ← NOTE LOCATION!
Parking is available one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54). Additional parking is available at The CORE and Holt Renfrew Parkades just east of the meeting location.
5:30 PM, Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.
Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-Transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.
RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.