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Episode 291 - The Silk Road: Drugs, Data & The Dread Pirate Roberts
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The Silk Road: A Drug Marketplace
Silk Road wasn't the first drug marketplace to appear on the dark net, but its scale and professionalism were leagues above anything that had ever come before. The site never offered stolen goods, stolen credit cards or child sex abuse images. Unlike other drug websites, buying your next block of hash didn't mean rubbing shoulders with career criminals or outright pedophiles. Anyone found to be selling low-grade drugs or scamming users were sometimes taken off the marketplace altogether.
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