Ross Ulbricht created the most notorious website in history when he launched the The Silk Road in 2011. An online marketplace for drugs, guns, poisons, and explosives, the Silk Road would become synonymous with the Internet's lawless new frontier: the so-called "Dark Web."
But what really IS the Dark Web? And how did a middle-class suburban kid become the notorious criminal kingpin known as the "Dread Pirate Roberts"?
Fire up your TOR browser and cover your digital tracks as you follow Shane and Duncan into the darkest depths of the web for a fascinating true story of drugs, contract killings, and betrayal.
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~ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, AND SLEEP IS OVERRATED ~
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Botched Coups and Failed Assassinations: The Bay of Pigs
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Decrypting Crypto: Bitcoin and NFTs
Espionage Technology: From Lipstick Pistols to the Insectothopter
Spy vs. Spy: The History of Espionage
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