In search of Utopia in the Deep Web
Since the fall of Silk Road, there’s been no rest on the Deep Web, but new marketplaces could signal a new era for cybercrime.
On Feb 7, 2014 by Carola Frediani
The Silk Road’s version of a gang was a nerdy book club
Lead by Silk Road head honcho Dread Pirate Roberts, the book club read everything from anarcho-capitalist classics to The Color Purple.
On Jan 31, 2014 by Tim Sampson
How to create an anonymous alter ego in 6 easy steps
Privacy might be on its deathbed, but making yourself a bit less machine-readable goes a long way to preserving our right to anonymity.
On Jan 21, 2014 by [email protected]
How Tor helped catch the Harvard bomb threat suspect
A student has been accused of emailing bomb threats at Harvard to delay final exams, but what’s more interesting is how he was caught.
On Dec 18, 2013 by [email protected]
Silk Road 2.0: The Deep Web’s most notorious black market is back
Former Silk Road admins have launched a successor to the infamous online drug market.
On Nov 6, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
Searching for a hitman in the Deep Web
Empowered by encrypted email programs and Bitcoin, hitmen (and -women) are able to advertise their services with seeming impunity.
On Oct 10, 2013 by Aaron Sankin
NSA attempted to de-anonymize Tor, with little success
“We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time.”
On Oct 4, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
How the FBI tracked down Dread Pirate Roberts
The Silk Road founder’s own carelessness led the FBI to his San Francisco home.
On Oct 2, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
After Snowden leaks, daily adoption rate of PGP encryption triples
Kristian Fiskerstrand cautions that more users trying it out now doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll adopt the practice permanently.
On Jul 31, 2013 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
Behind the Tor Project
Core members of the Tor Project talked tech at Reddit recently, topping our list for the week’s best live interviews on the social news site.
On Jun 26, 2012 by Kevin Collier
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