Saturday, October 12, 2013

The disturbing world of the Deep Web, where contract killers and drug dealers ply their trade on the internet...

Hiring a hitman has never been easier. Nor has purchasing cocaine or heroin, nor even viewing horrific child pornography.

Such purchases are now so easy, in fact, that they can all be done from the comfort of one's home at the click of a button... and there's almost nothing the police can do about it.

This worrying development of the criminal black market is down entirely to the Deep Web - a seething matrix of encrypted websites - also known as Tor - that allows users to surf beneath the everyday internet with complete anonymity.

The Deep Web has existed for more than a decade but came under the spotlight last month after police shutdown the Silk Road website - the online marketplace dubbed the 'eBay of drugs' - and arrested its creator.

But experts warn this has done next to nothing to stem the rising tide of such illicit online exchanges, which are already jostling to fill the gap now left in this unregulated virtual world.

So for those looking to bump off a difficult acquaintance, all they have to do is enter the Deep Web - known also as the 'Dark Web' or the 'Undernet' - and search 'hitman for hire'. Full story...

Related posts:
  1. Exposed: The dark side of the internet, where you can buy drugs, sex and...
  2. The dark web stole my life...
  3. Ex-employee reveals Facebook's dark, sexist side...
  4. Deep web, the dark side of the internet...
  5. Is the Internet driving us mad?
  6. We can't live without the Internet, say 75% of UK youths...
  7. The dark side of Facebook...

No comments:

Post a Comment