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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.

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