PublishedAllen & Unwin, March 2018 |
ISBN9781760297855 |
FormatSoftcover, 320 pages |
Dimensions23.3cm × 15.3cm × 2.4cm |
Dark...
A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in mysterious circumstances in a Bangkok jail cell, just as the author arrives there.
Who is Variety Jones and why have darknet markets ballooned tenfold since authorities shut down the original dark web drugs bazaar, Silk Road? Who are the kingpins willing to sell poisons and weapons, identities and bank accounts, malware and life-ruining services online to anyone with a wallet full of Bitcoin?
Darker...
A death in Minnesota leads detectives into the world of dark web murder-for-hire where hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin is paid to arrange killings, beatings and rapes. Meanwhile, the owner of the most successful hitman website in history is threatening the journalists who investigate his business with a visit from his operatives - and the author is at the top of his list.
Darkest...
People with the most depraved perversions gather to share their obscene materials in an almost inaccessible corner of the dark web. A video circulates and the pursuit of the monsters responsible for 'Daisy's Destruction' lead detectives into the unimaginable horror of the world of hurtcore.
There's the world wide web - the internet we all know that connects us via news, email, forums, shopping and social media. Then there's the dark web - the parallel internet accessed by only a select few. Usually, those it connects wish to remain anonymous and for good reason.
Eileen Ormsby has spent the past five years exploring every corner of the Dark Web. She has shopped on darknet markets, contributed to forums, waited in red rooms and been threatened by hitmen on murder-for-hire sites. On occasions, her dark web activities have poured out into the real world and she has attended trials, met with criminals and the law enforcement who tracked them down, interviewed dark web identities and visited them in prison.
This book will take you into the murkiest depths of the web's dark underbelly: a place of hitmen for hire, red rooms, hurtcore sites and markets that will sell anything a person is willing to pay for - including another person. The Darkest Web.
Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
Eileen Ormsby wrote “Silk Road” which was the world’s first exposé of the black markets that operate on the dark web. In this new book, she exposes the “dark web” – news and forums dedicated to topics of true crime, but with inside information and gruesome detail rarely found on the clear web. This hidden web is a way of creating a meeting place where the visitor can’t discover where the host is and the host can’t discover where the visitor is coming from. Nobody — including the organisations that provide access to the sites — can determine who runs them or where they are located. Drugs, weapons, poisons, identities and bank accounts for sale; murder-for-hire; and much more are all under the spotlight in this book. Over the last five years Ormsby has explored every corner of the dark web, talked to the criminals created by it and to those who labour to bring them to justice. In this book she takes you down to it’s murkiest depths.
