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The Dark Web

I have been listening to an audio book on the Dark Web by Bernard, Achampong and Geoff White. It goes from the murky origin of the Dark Web. Which it turns out it was initially ran by the US government covertly. This was to enable its to keep in contact with its agents all over the world and transfer information clandestinely. There are organized criminal gangs who were doing business on the Dark Web and treat each transaction as a business transaction even with a business plan, their own customer support, etc. The book gave a large amount of insight into the reason why it is and who was maintaining it. The book also talked on the rise of bitcoin and it use on the Dark Web, being the source of untraceable money. On the Dark Web anonymity is ensured, as the computers do not emit IP addresses as these are masked. From software viruses or ransomware, the Investigative Journalist was able to get it without any computer experience. As the finished virus package was downloaded to his em