Piffey

cryptic ramblings from the last foothold of the wild west

Tag: Darkweb

FBI Busts DarkMarket: The Techno-Criminal’s One-Stop Shop

I caught this article over at The Guardian yesterday, a UK paper I only started reading daily last week. It has a great technology section, but on to more interesting matters. The FBI along with the U.S. Secret Service helped to bring down DarkMarket, one of the web’s top 10 cyber-crime shops back in 2008. [...]

DarkNets, The Hidden Networks of the Web

A few weeks ago The Guardian published an article by Andy Beckett entitled The dark side of the internet that explored the so-called deep web where “criminals” and “child pornography” abound. The article was highly critical and I was hesitant to comment at first because I found the information to match up with services I’ve [...]