Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced a £9m fund to crack-down on criminality on the dark web, with £5m devoted to local cyber crime units.
The money, pulled from a previously announced £50m pot for the Home Office to improve the UK’s cyber defences, will ‘enhance’ law enforcement’s response to criminals who ‘exploit the anonymity of the dark web’.
Due to this ease of anonymity, the dark web is often a place for trading drugs, guns and child abuse images. Rudd describes it as a “dark and dangerous place where anonymity emboldens people to break the law in the most horrifying of ways”, but what do experts from the UK tech scene think of her announcement?
Is the money enough?
Ross Rustici, senior director, intelligence services at Cybereason, said the money is not enough: “It isn’t £9m to start dealing with this issue, it is £9m to focus on a very specific task. Is it enough? No. Is it better than what they have now? Yes. ...