The fact that cops would want to be aware of people using the Dark Web doesn't seem particularly surprising or alarming. When you're looking for bad actors you build up a profile based on previous bad actors. I used to work in fraud prevention, and we found, for example, for our particular product if someone opened an account and then changed addresses within two weeks, there was a pretty good chance it was identity fraud.<p>Of course there's nothing nefarious about opening an account two weeks before you move to a new place, but it would get you looked at because so many people who did were fraudsters.<p>The goofy thing about this story is the fact that they circulated a <i>leaflet</i> listing something like this as suspicious behavior. They're going to get buried under bogus tips from nosy neighbors as actual terrorists avoid doing this kind of stuff publicly.
"holds passports or other documents in different names for no obvious reason"
-- their spies are terrorists, wow<p>"travels for long periods of time, but is vague about where they're going"
-- seriously?! Must every citizen post their travel itinerary now?<p>"is visiting the dark web, or ordering unusual items online"
-- well, they need to start arresting thousands if not millions of people
-- also "unusual items" like what? When is something "unusual"?<p>These UK Cops are spreading FUD and turning people, families, against each other.
The only country capable to deal with terrorism today is Israel. In the UK and the US there's a generalized state of paranoia. Or maybe finger pointing is just a sign of incompetence? Everybody is <i>suspicious</i> now, yet they failed to act on warnings from Italian security agencies regarding the perpetrators of the London Bridge attack.