THE LAND OF I KNOW NOT WHAT AND I KNOW NOT WHERE

The overwhelming percentage of funds that governments are now
channelling into cyber security are devoted to 'digital solutions' - they
are fighting the power of gadgets with gadgets. The money going into
understanding hackers, their culture, their minds, their intentions
and their vulnerabilities is negligible. But how do you find a hacker?
And, on the Internet, how do you know if your new-found friend is
a hacker, a police spy, an intelligence agent, an Air Force investigator, a
prankster, a terrorist or an alien?

Everything revolves around trust. And building trust means being
patient and nurturing relationships. Yet time is at a premium in the
world of cyber security. Nowhere did the difficulties relating to trust
and time become clearer to me than when DarkMarket's locus shifted
away from its origins in Britain, Germany and the United States towards
a country whose economic and geo-strategic importance is growing
at a rate of knots - Turkey.