Silk Road 3.0 and the million-dollar drug trade hiding in the deep web

by news.com.au
November 9, 2014

The dark web poses new and formidable challenges for law enforcement agencies around the world that have been dealing for decades with more conventional international drug trafficking. The reach and anonymity of these 21st century internet operations is difficult to penetrate. Silk Road and copycats on the TOR network are not readily visible through popular internet search sites. The buyers and sellers don’t exchange cash, dealing instead in often untraceable digital currencies, usually Bitcoin. So there are no banking records for investigators to subpoena.