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Interview: Eileen Ormsby, Author of Silk Road & All Things VICE

July 9, 2016 2 Comments

Neat little interview I did with a fellow blogger

Humble Book Review: Silk Road

July 1, 2016 No Comments

Lovely book review. Thanks to Digital Dilettante

A word from one of the Silk Road “Old Guard”

June 17, 2016 7 Comments

There’s nothing like an inaccurate, poorly-written, unresearched defamatory piece of garbage journalism to bring people out of the woodwork. So I have to thank one Ms Margi Murphy for this laughably bad piece of trash I often lament the loss of Silk Road (v.1.0). I was so entrenched in that place, spending hours a day in the forums as I wrote my

Ugly kids are cheaper – The Besa Files

May 18, 2016 3 Comments

Another story from the dark web “murder-for-hire” site hack. Read The Curious Case of Besa Mafia first. There are stories of people paying real money, verifiable through the blockchain, that have come out of the hack. Both targets and their would-be killers can be identified, so it’s only fair to leave those to the authorities for now. Meanwhile, in an epic

The Little Texas Hit that Wasn’t

May 16, 2016 31 Comments

The hack of dark web “murder-for-hire” outfit Besa Mafia, which I wrote about a couple of days ago. has provided a treasure trove of stories of people who are prepared to go to extreme measures to be rid of someone in their lives. Most never got further than the initial enquiries. A few parted with tens of thousands of

Hitting on the Aussies – the Besa Mafia files

May 15, 2016 6 Comments

Before the recent hack confirmed definitively what rational people already knew – i.e. that the dark web “murder-for-hire” site was a scam – it was a little disconcerting that Besa Mafia’s No.1 FAQ was Do you have people in Australia? Now a thorough search of the leaked mails and orders has found no evidence that any of the people who

The curious case of Besa Mafia

May 14, 2016 99 Comments

Disturbing revelations have come out of a dark web hire-a-hitman site Drugs, hacking services, stolen financial and personal information and fraud-related services are the staple products of the darknet markets. But there has always been websites offering far more sinister wares – poisons, human beings and hitmen. Such sites are overwhelmingly amateurish, poorly worded fakes, designed to separate the gullible from

You wanted darker web?

September 11, 2015 85 Comments

Last week I poked fun at torture and murder on the dark web. I’m writing on the same topic today, but I’m not laughing. A few months ago I wrote about the apparent over-representation of Australians in all things dark web. This blog touches on that too, but you won’t find me smug and vaguely proud about it. Four Australians

Waiting in the Red Room

August 29, 2015 60 Comments

“There will be bacon” It started, as these things are wont to do, on 4Chan or Reddit. A couple of days ago; anonymous people posting anonymously “WHOA! Is this Real??” They gave no explanation, just an onion (i.e. dark web) link. The curious, of course, clicked. And they were greeted with a message: It went on to say the site

On being part of the stolen genre

August 18, 2015 1 Comment

What do me and Charles Bukowski have in common? Okay, that may be a little hyperbolic, but for the answer you are going to have to check out my guest blog for the Melbourne Writers Festival.

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