The Dark Net (author: Jamie Bartlett)

It was on Horizon the other night, quite good as with a lot of bbc stuff these days did not go into enough depth - RIP the old "proper" Horizon series 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04grp09

Cheers for that MisterBadger - watching it now.

"What is quite fascinating though is how the drug dealers are always one step ahead of the Law"


Yeah well I suppose moonbeam, if they weren't there wouldn't be any drug dealers.

The exchange and the forum are part of the dark web now. New customers don't know we're here.

GRANTCKING
05 Sep 14 16:03

its the place to go to hire hitmen and buy crack Grin


You're dead right - here's something from the book that wasn't in the horizon programme.

"Introduction

Liberty or Death.

I have heard rumours about this website, but I still cannot quite believe that it exists.  I am looking at what I think is a hit list.  There are photographs of people I recognise - prominent politicians, mostly - and, next to each, an amount of money.  The site's creator, who uses the pdeudonym Kuwabatke Sanjuro, thinks that if you could pay to have someone murdered witn no chance - I mean absolutely zero chance - of being caught, you would.  That's one of the reasons why he has created the Assissination Market.  There are four simple instructions listed on its front page:

>Add a name to the list
>Add money to the pot in the person's name
>Predict when that person will die
>Correct predictions get the pot

The Assination Market can't be found with a Google search.  It sits on a hidden, encrypted part of the internet that, until recently, could only be accessed with a browser called The Onion Router, or Tor."

[description of tor]

"The Assaination Market may be hosted on an unfamiliar part of the the net, but it's easy enough to find, if you know how to look.  All that's required is a simple (and free) software package.  Then sign up, follow the instructions, and wait.  It is impossible to know the number of people who are doing exactly that, but at the time of writing, if I correctly predict the date of the death of Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, I'd receive approximately $56,000.

It may seem like a fairly pointless bet.  It's very difficult to guess when someone is going to die.  THat's why the Assassination Market has a fifth instruction:

>Making your prediction come true in entirely optional.

It sits on a hidden, encrypted part of the internet that, until recently, could only be accessed with a browser called The Onion Router, or Tor.

Wonder who funds tor
.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

As of 2012, 80% of The Tor Project's $2M annual budget came from the United States government

Becareful who you trust oh and I wonder why the US is funding this technology