Dark Web

Waiting in the Red Room

August 29, 2015

“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

On being part of the stolen genre

August 18, 2015

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

If you found it by browsing, it’s probably not dark web

August 1, 2015

Fun fact: the proper technical term for dark web sites is hidden services. It’s easy to forget what this implies, but as I’ve been researching

The truth behind 60 Minutes hyperbole of the dark web

September 15, 2014

After last night’s 60 Minutes, any parent could be forgiven for barging into their teen’s bedroom and confiscating their computer, terrified that their offspring is

State of the darkmarkets: Pandora compromised?

September 5, 2014

One of the members of Onionland recently created a searchable version of the original Silk Road forums. As you do, I went on a little

Remember, Remember… Silk Road redux

November 7, 2013

It’s been just over a month since Silk Road got seized and Ross Ulbricht, allegedly the site’s founder Dread Pirate Roberts, was arrested. A new Silk

This tinfoil hat fits me well

October 19, 2013

Since the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, allegedly Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts, conspiracy theories have been coming thick and fast and they range from the

About this $1.2 billion crap…

October 18, 2013

I owe much of this post to the work of Nicolas Christin, the researcher who previously provided the analysis of Silk Road’s income. He is

The road’s closed to these drugs

October 8, 2013

Hey, if the person who emailed me an encrypted message headed “Scoop” and said they wouldn’t be going back to that email addy could re-send

How many pirates are there? An update

October 7, 2013

If the Bitcointalk hackers are reading this, can you please let me know if I’m a lousy journo and missed the smoking gun, or if

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