The Dark Web: Introduction

The Dark Web #1-10

by Geoff White, Bernard P. Achampong (Contributor)

Listening length: 4 hours & 20 minutes; read by the author

Introduction to a 10-episode exposé on the depths of the internet. Each episode runs from 17 minutes to 34 minutes, averaging around 25 minutes:

• The Dark Web, Episode 1: The Birth of The Dark Web
• The Dark Web, Episode 2: The Untold Story of The Dark Web
• The Dark Web, Episode 3: Bitcoin's Days Are Numbered
• The Dark Web, Episode 4: How Not to Buy a Gun on The Dark Web
• The Dark Web, Episode 5: Hackers For Hire
• The Dark Web, Episode 6: The Virus Kingpin
• The Dark Web, Episode 7: Cyber Crime Inc.
• The Dark Web, Episode 8: The Child Porn Paradox
• The Dark Web, Episode 9: A Dark Force For Good
• The Dark Web, Episode 10: Anonymity on Trial


From sex trafficking and fraud to government secrets and anonymous hacking groups, this definitive exploration and exposé of the dark web go where no documentary has gone before.

The anonymous and lawless online environment of the Dark Web makes headlines on a daily basis. It touches all of our lives, without our knowledge, in many different ways. But where do the end and reality of the myths begin?

Tech writer and broadcaster Geoff White (Channel 4 News) wants to find out. He casts an investigatory light on the dark underworld of the internet. We join him on a shocking tour of its secrets, revealing corporate hackers, pedophile rings, fraud on an international scale, conspiracy theories, drug dealers, gun runners, spies, and specialist police investigators.

Driven by undercover recordings, anonymous contributors and expert interviews, this in-depth, journalistically-rigorous current affairs investigation leave no online stone unturned in its quest for the truth.

Genres: Nonfiction, Audiobook, True Crime, Science, Crime, Internet, Technology

4 pages, Audible Audio

First published October 25, 2017

About the author

Geoff White is an author, speaker, investigative journalist and podcast creator. He has worked for the BBC, Audible, Penguin, Sky News, The Sunday Times and many more. In a career spanning 20 years he has covered everything from billion-dollar cyber heists to global money laundering rings and crypto-gangsters.

His new book, Rinsed, reveals technology’s impact on the world of money laundering and will be published by Penguin Random House in June 2024.

He has given keynote talks for some of the world’s biggest brands, including Microsoft, HSBC, Mastercard, Atos, Orange and Bank of America.

His last book, The Lazarus Heist – From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War was published by Penguin Random House in June 2022, and is available now on Amazon, Waterstones, and Bookshop.org. It sprang from the hit 10-part BBC podcast series of the same name, which Geoff co-hosted and which immediately ranked number one in the UK Apple chart and within the top 7 in the US.

An experienced public speaker, he has given keynote talks at some of the UK’s largest conferences, in addition to hosting events and chairing panels at venues ranging from London’s Chatham House think-tank to the Latitude music festival.

Geoff’s first book, Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global, was published in August 2020 by Reaktion Books and was described as “a fascinating, often gripping read”.

He has written and presented two major podcast series for Audible. The Dark Web exposed the shadow internet created by the US military and now home to hackers, crooks and freedom fighters. It has been a top ten hit on the platform since its launch in 2017. Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe? revealed the origins of AI, and showed how the technology is seeping into everyday life.

Geoff’s own podcast series Cybercrime Investigations takes listeners inside the world of an investigative journalist, detailing the twists and turns as the story unfolds.

He was also the co-creator of The Secret Life of Your Mobile Phone, a live, interactive phone hacking stage performance which showed how the global technology industry is harvesting the data leaking from your handset. The show was a sell–out hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017, and has been performed at music festivals, political conferences and for corporate clients.

As the technology correspondent for Channel 4 News, one of the UK’s leading daily news programmes, Geoff won multiple awards for his work on the Snowden leaks, the hacking of Britain’s largest ISP TalkTalk and his exposés of fraud in the internet dating industry. He was the creator of the programme’s Data Baby project, a unique experiment which used a fictional online persona to expose how personal data is used – and abused – online.

Reviews

[Lorraine Southern · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating scary stuff 😟

[Louise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty informative and some interesting discussions.

[Girish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ring of Gyges is a story that appears in 'Republic' which narrates the rise of Gyges, king of Lydia's ascension to power with the help of a magical ring that grants it's wearer invisibility. The philosophical narrative considers whether an intelligent person would remain moral if he did not fear being caught or punished. (Also inspired HG Well's famous book "The Invisible Man")

Cut to present - we are introduced to the Dark Web - technology that makes you 'invisible' on the online world. This book explores the depths of the consequences of such a technology - ironically, created by the NSA- be it drug trade, sex trafficking to leaking Government secrets. It is extremely informative and well researched and limited only by the imagination of the production team.

Imagine an Amazon for drugs and arms, where you can leave ratings and customer reviews for other people on the hunt to download. Each chapter explores one such vice and gets into the depth of it. It talks about bitcoin - a thing I did not know the workings of and hacking which I found fascinating.

A definite recommendation if you are a newbie like me. More educational than entertaining and the sensitivity towards chapters like child sex trafficking is commendable.

As a free read on audible, definitely worth exploring!

[Cav · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this one. It is presented as an audiobook, but the format is very much like the audio of a mini-documentary series. It would have been great to have a complimentary video series for this one.
As the title promises, it is a brief foray into the world of the Dark Web. Investigative journalist Geoff White tells the listener about tor browsers, the Silk Road, and many other things Dark Web here.
He talks about the history of the Dark Web; it's creation, how it became popular, and who uses it most now - from users wanting anonymity, to hackers and criminals.

The series is 10 episodes long, each ~30mins:
• The Dark Web, Episode 1: The Birth of The Dark Web
• The Dark Web, Episode 2: The Untold Story of The Dark Web
• The Dark Web, Episode 3: Bitcoin's Days Are Numbered
• The Dark Web, Episode 4: How Not to Buy a Gun on The Dark Web
• The Dark Web, Episode 5: Hackers For Hire
• The Dark Web, Episode 6: The Virus Kingpin
• The Dark Web, Episode 7: Cyber Crime Inc.
• The Dark Web, Episode 8: The Child Porn Paradox
• The Dark Web, Episode 9: A Dark Force For Good
• The Dark Web, Episode 10: Anonymity on Trial

The episodes were well researched, formatted, and presented. It was an interesting look into the Dark Web, that I would recommend to anyone interested.
4 stars.

[Dr. Tathagat Varma · Rating 4 out of 5]

The term #DarkWeb or #DarkNet simultaneously sounds scary and dangerous on one hand, to deeply mysterious and esoteric on the other! However, there is more misinformation, ignorance, social taboos and possibly illegality around it which makes one stay away from exploring it and live in darkness (pun intended) than explore it. So I decided to learn more about it. After all, what one knows couldn't possibly hurt.

It was quite an educational journey to learn of its origins, and how #bitcoin inevitably makes its more than a genteel cameo appearance, quite predictably for undertakings that might be outlawed for not so innocuous reasons. However, in some cases the dark web might even be a key tool that helps people live and work in anonymity, or might be key for a group of people who want to organize for what they believe is good for them. Irrespective, like science itself, or one of the millions of technologies, it has its good and bad sides, and one needs to view it with due discretion. As a techie, one should surely learn about technologies around us and how they shape the world around us. Even if we don't play a part in it, we might still be a part of it!

[Vikas · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a wonderful and informative series and to think that I got this for free, wow thanks Audible, and the wonderful job done by the team. This audio series covers the surprise origins of the dark web and also the use and misuse and the misinformation about the dark web. It is scary but as they told us again and again it is also needed for freedom and security. This series was separated into 10 fascinating chapters with each chapter dealing with a particular facet of the Dark Web. I loved it and learned many details about the dark web that I didn't know. If you have audible then there is no reason why you shouldn't add this series to your library and if you don't use audible then what other reasons do you need than that there was 100s of free content available and you get a credit each month that you can use to get any book of any value. I know it sounds like an ad but no it's not sponsored I love Audible especially in India where it is very cheap and perfectly priced.

People who don't read generally ask me my reasons for reading. Simply put I just love reading and so to that end I have made it my motto to just Keep on Reading. I love to read everything except for Self Help books but even those once in a while. I read almost all the genre but YA, Fantasy, Biographies are the most. My favorite series is, of course, Harry Potter but then there are many more books that I just adore. I have bookcases filled with books which are waiting to be read so can't stay and spend more time in this review, so remember I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.

[Mali Hurford · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75 stars.

[Adarsh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Narrated as a podcast series rather than an audiobook, The Dark Web is a great primer on the shady corner of the internet, the Darknet.

Being a cybersecurity consultant, I was naturally drawn to this freebie from Audible. I was quite familiar with the workings of the Darknet, thanks largely to Nick Bilton’s brilliant American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road. Despite my familiarity on the subject, I really liked how The Dark Web provided a chronology of events that led to the proliferation of Darknet: from the US Navy’s development of Tor (the anonymous browser) in the mid-1990s to why it was made open-source in 2004, before the infamous Silk Road trial opened a can of worms and made the Darknet, Tor and Bitcoin public knowledge.

The series is both well-researched and well-narrated by Geoff White, a British investigative journalist, complemented nicely by some intriguing interviews, including that of Ross Ulbricht’s mother and other key individuals both associated and affected by the Darknet.

The chapter on ransomware was particularly unsettling as we are shown how incredibly easy it is to purchase a ransomware on the Darknet, completely free of cost(!) with the ransomware creator getting a cut each time someone pays the ransom. All you need to do is apparently select a name and a ransom amount for your ransomware. The more organized crime organizations in the Darknet even boast of 24/7 customer support to “help” the affected victims pay the ransom, and are increasingly resembling mature Silicon Valley startups.

While the series isn’t an exhaustive coverage of the Darknet, it’s a great starting point for anyone keen to understand how the dark web works. For people looking for further reading on the subject, I’d recommend Nick Bilton’s American Kingpin, an engrossing read on the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road.

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

Audible's The Dark Web is an interesting exploration of what goes on in the darkest corners of the internet. From the origins of the dark web and the Tor browser to its legitimate role in countries with severely restricted free speech and internet access, the series explores the illicit buying and selling of drugs, weapons and the most reprehensible types of pornography. It's a broad survey of issues related to the dark web with occasional tangents into cyberstalking and harmful behavior on the mainstream web that might have worked better with a little more in-depth focus on its specific subtopics. The best episode deals with Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, but the book American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road covers the same ground much more effectively. Still, it's a good introduction to many of these ideas for the completely uninitiated.

[mybookishtravels · Rating 5 out of 5]

This rating is based off the full 10 episode series. I can't find one showing on Goodreads for the full series so I am putting this here instead. This was very informative and disturbing.
If you don't know a lot about this subject matter and want to be informed should someone talk to you about it. I highly recommend listening to this mini series for the mind. Definitely leaves me with more questions than answers now that I know a bit more about it.

[Alexander Fitzgerald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entire series is bone chilling.

[Joy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Listened to the full, intriguing series on Audible

[Ayushi Shukla · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was very interesting and very short. This is a documentary on dark web how it started and how it is effecting our life. Pros and cons of dark web.
The main concerning thing about dark web is how easy it is making drug dealing, weapons deals and all the stuff that is forbidden. This also tells that everybody is not bad some are just doing it because it is so easy and you get the anonymity plus extra money in your pocket.
From mobile hacking to child porn it covers all those topic and shows that many things are available on general website to allure the coustomer.
Some parts are disturbing like a woman who is discussing her sex life and she doesn't want to do that publicly since as a woman you have to deal with lots of judgement and prejudice. She says that people give her rape threats and general threats and when she track few of them down they are like I was just showing off to my friends never thought you've read those messages. Also she told that how people blackmailed her that they'll reveal her identity and etc

This series is just a light upon how people will behave under the cloak of invisibility

[Darjeeling · Rating 4 out of 5]

A surprisingly well researched and balanced overview of cybercrime in general.
They make an effort to get multiple points of view, and include the argument that the Dark Web is a useful tool for free speech as well as a thorn in the side of tyranny, not just somewhere where people do spoopy internet crimes. Interesting to learn that most nonces just use Twitter and Facebook rather than the Dark Web, and that most Dark Web websites do a better job of gatekeeping against nonces than Twitter and Facebook do.

If you are interested in staying safe online, I would recommend BraveBrowser, DuckDuckGo, and ProtonMail, and I would recommend not using Twitter, Facebook, Google, or Gmail.

[Mindy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting.

[Paul Sating · Rating 5 out of 5]

Disturbingly insightful.

[Tamela · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would actually give it 3.5 stars. It’s very informative and covers a lot of ground but it is basic for the newbie trying to understand the dark web.

[Ashleigh (ash_and_books) · Rating 3 out of 5]

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For March, I listened to an audiobook. It’s the first, but probably not the last time I will do so because of the convenience when I travel. The audiobook was called “The Dark Web,” by Bernard P. Achampong and Geoff White. The later author was also the narrator. Given that my most popular workshop is Computer Maintenance, I was drawn in. There are aspects of the audiobook that are attached to three of my four classes on Computer Maintenance.

This book audible gets mixed marks from me however, as it got a lot of good information but failed to include other things I already knew. I mark these things as negative because they left me with the impression that they left out things I was less exposed to, and I will remain ignorant for the time about them. For example, when they brought up the topic of Ransomware, they never bothered to tell the reader exactly what ransomware they were referring to. Petya? NotPetya? Wannacry? The world will never know. I can guess it was either Wannacry or NotPetya from the hints they gave, but I could also be completely off-base. It also never bothered to name the military tool that was exploited to create Ransomware in the first place: a security flaw in Windows Software, initially discovered by the CIA (and kept secret for exploitation by enemy parties.) This flaw is referred to as EternalBlue and is one of the more undersold failings of the US government(since it resulted in the creation of some of the nastiest malware ever).

However, that is not to say that there wasn’t a wealth of new information in this book that I found interesting. They did discuss Zeus by name as one of the worst viruses in our history. They also discussed the origins of the Dark or Deep Web. Like how Google Maps was originally being developed for military purposes, the Dark Web was intended to be a mask.

They had a really good metaphor for it: imagine the web as a series of railways. The websites are train stations, and each passenger has a boarding pass. At certain checkpoints and in every “train station,” your boarding pass gets checked. These checkpoints can see where you’ve been and where you’re headed. But CIA and other law enforcement agencies don’t really want a criminal to know they are. So they created a special browser that allowed them to access the internet with a blank ticket. The checkpoints would register them as having a valid ticket, but they wouldn’t be able to read prior destination or where someone is going. They wouldn’t be able to tell where you came from.

The problem with the above is that it still knows there is a user there, connecting to the website. You are not erased from the face of the internet, only masked behind more security than a VPN or proxy allow. Thus, if a website observed such traffic, they would immediately know a FBI agent or other government official was on their site. The only method at their disposal to combat this was to release the Tor network to the general public, thus allowing their agents to blend in with the crowd.

This is a highly palatable method of describing the Dark Web’s history. I used this metaphor in my brief discussion of the Dark Web on the final day of my latest computer maintenance workshop, complete with drawings of it. I also brought up several of the other points mentioned in the novel, from the ransomware the narrator created (and promptly deleted) from a website all about designing ransomware to the positive uses for the Dark Web. One of my students commented that she deeply appreciated the metaphor, as it conceptualized everything for her.

There was more to this, from the discussions of how the Dark Web can be used positively to an extended discussion of the Silk Road (the Dark Web's version of Ebay.) I felt like this ebook was worth my time.

[Brad Lockey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first learned of The Dark Web via a separate title, American Kingpin; based on the creation of the dark web site The Silk Road which acted as a digital marketplace for all things illicit and illegal.

Most of the activity on The Dark Web is around the buying and selling of firearms and drugs; not child porn as most people would think. In fact, child porn is much more rampant of an issue and traded more regularly on the regular web that we all use.

It might strike you as odd, but the actual Dark Web was created by .... wait for it ... the US Navy in the mid-1990s as a means to create a technology that allowed intelligence operatives to exchange information completely and anonymously. But in order for it to work for the US Navy, they had to open it up to the general public.
Sucha a paradox right?

Many interesting points were brought to light after listening to this audiobook.
- how The Dark Web is, in fact, safer, for drug trade as there are not and back-alley transactions where people get beat up and no bystanders are wounded or killed in turf wars;
- how The Dark Web marketplaces work on a rating system, meaning you're not going to get "cut" drugs with Drano, or ripped off on a purchase;

Let's face it.
If anyone reading this "wants" something, my guess is that if they put their mind to it they could "get" something within 10 emails or phone calls direct.
That's the connectivity of our culture.
I'm all for safety first ... especially during COVID.

[ZeV · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a well-organized series of short documentaries on the Dark Web, the Internet culture that has arisen based on and made possible by a loose collection of anonymous communication technology like Tor, decentralized digital currency like Bitcoin, as well as old-school (yet ever more powerful) computer malware. It is nothing deeply technical, pure and simple journalism. You may not learn anything new if you have been a casual observer of the topic, but if you have no idea how the dark side of the Internet looks like, this might provide a quick and decent overview.

I would have liked it more if the coverage also extended to the positive side of those "dark" technologies, such as how anonymous communication could help protect free speech where it does not exist, or how decentralized currency could potentially create a new economy where the rent-seeking by the establishment is no longer the norm. There are reasons why some people are still excited by the prospect of these technologies, albeit the obvious issues that this series has covered.

[Natalia FG · Rating 2 out of 5]

It started very good and interested but since chapter 5 I felt it just started to go down in the quality of the info and conclusions provided in the audios, chapter 10 was very disappointed, you put together a group of people basically with the same opinions, even in a case of exposure of info of Snowden that gave the world a pintch of info about what is really going on with their information and privacy... And the reasons of one of those guys in your audio is that he was being paid and should keep his mouth shut, really? So if I'm being paid by my company and I discovered that my boss has his laptop full of child pornography should I also keep shut cause he is paying me and that is his content in his laptop not in mine so is not of my business...? You mention a lot the balance and the two sides of anonymity, but the topic was so poorly developed in that sense, at the end of the book seems more like an audio book that the FBI etc want us all to heard... So we all keep distance of what they don't want us to do, know or think.

[Raj Poladia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Insightful stories and interview. Really fascinating and ice breaker stuff. In this world of highly connected stuff where privacy is compromised the moment we unlock our phone and connect to internet, this seems a great tool.

But... As the saying goes... With Great Power comes Great Responsibility... And as the history suggests, not all humans are "responsible". There are more negative cases than the positives on Dark Web.

Who am I to judge good or bad? After all Good and Bad are abstract concepts, what I feel good does not necessarily mean is good for others...

Last thing but not least, it is what it is about Dark Web, people using it legally or illegally as far as it is not hurting others directly or indirectly it is acceptable... The moment things lead to mass murder, mass destruction of Digital Information, etc then this is not necessary for common people, because you know? if just a depressed person can kill tens of people, then I couldn't even gather enough courage to imagine what a highly motivated terrorist could have done...

[AttackGirl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting, basic and now way outdated. This is my second listen just so I can delete out of my library. I am so thankful for GoodReads that now keeps track of all my books read, well ones that I remember to add.


I was hoping by now they would have updated this to discuss all that is always happening…

Control of the populations

Manipulation of the Government and its elections around the world

What is the value of each person, how much will they purchase over a year, 10yrs, a life with partner, kids etc and what about with education, AA, BS, MA, Phd… with travel what exactly causes the spending value of the person to go up and where is that calculated so each person who on that tier is marketed too… marketed hahaha manipulated to make sure they spend their money where we tell them too, to live the life we tell them to live. Cradle to Grave to have the best life. My app LIFE, JOURNEY, should follow the child from birth to get them on THE PLAN.

[TJ Totland · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a 10 part series about the Dark web and how it is being used.

Ep. 1: The Birth of The Dark Web
Ep. 2: The Untold Story of The Dark Web
Ep. 3: Bitcoin's Days Are Numbered
Ep. 4: How Not To Buy A Gun On The Dark Web
Ep. 5: Hackers For Hire
Ep. 6: The Virus Kingpin
Ep. 7: Cyber Crime Inc.
Ep. 8: The Child Porn Paradox
Ep. 9: A Dark Force For Good
Ep. 10: Anonymity On Trial

The Dark Web is essentially an area of the internet, accessible via a non-standard browser, that offers anonymity to users. There’s no Google style search engine, instead you have to know specific site addresses in order to gain access – and these are typically made up of a seemingly random collection of letters, numbers and other characters.

The site addresses are gleaned through chat room discussions and the like and its use is protected by its users. Most illegal stuff can be bought on the Dark Web and is lawless in nature. It is used just as much by governments as criminals.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this, the topic was interesting. I liked how White starts at the beginning and explains what the dark web is, and then explores the various things it is, and could be, used for. The question of freedom and anonymity online is a complicated one. In countries like the UK and Australia, where I have lived, we have the freedom to use the so called bright web without restrictions (provided your endeavours are legal ones). It's easy for us to think the dark web is only needed for criminals. There are times when anonymity has positive benefits though, some if which are discussed here.

I thought White did a great job of covering a large topic, and keeping the information accessible to those who don't have a tech background. I'll definitely be looking for more podcasts by Geoff White to listen to

[Adam N. · Rating 5 out of 5]

𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚?, 𝙞'𝙡𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 ( 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙚𝙮𝙟𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙮606@𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝙢), 𝙎𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙙 😞💔 𝙞 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙞 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙥, 𝙢𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙙𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙛𝙛 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙞 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚, 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙞 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞'𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙨𝙤 𝙞 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩, 𝙞 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 (𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙚𝙮𝙟𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙮606@𝙜𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙡.𝙘𝙤𝙢) 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙢, 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙞 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙞 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖-𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙩 𝙢𝙚, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙞 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝘼𝙥𝙥 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙞 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙚, 𝙞 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙤𝙣 𝙏𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 +44 7456 058620 𝙊𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙃𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝘽𝙄

[Alexey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Даже не аудиокнига, а компиляция из 10 подкастов на тему нашего прекрасного "темного веба". Легкое чтение / слушание, рассчитанное на неспециалиста. Мне было немного скучновато слушать все те же сюжеты: Сноуден и подушки у двери отеля в Гонконге, Silk Road и задержание Росса в библиотеке и инсценировка убийства его админа, криптовалютчики и тайна Накамото, детская порнография, кибербуллинг и т.д..

Для чего стоит послушать? Если перечисление эпизодов истории веба выше вам ни о чем не говорит, то наверное стоит послушать. Или если забыли – освежить. Из новенького, мне лично заинтересовал первый сюжет про становление и развитие TOR'а (то о чем пишет Уайт обычно появляется в каких-то третьесортных текстах про историю заговора, а тут все-таки журналист Channel 4 на BBC).

[Archie · Rating 3 out of 5]

The main hosts voice was irritating and I felt a lot of the information about the dark web may have been dumbed down for audiences that weren’t exactly that tech savvy, but the middle chunk of this series was actually rather interesting and informative, even if the audio quality was passable at best and downright hellish at worst.

The beginning dragged and the end episode honestly wasn’t all that interesting to me, I came here for information you know? Not to be told stuff I already know.

Sometimes I wonder how much I would’ve actually liked this if it weren’t for it’s interesting middle section.

6/10

[Rosie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a broad look into the dark web that most have heard of but few really understand. It is an Audible Original audioshow with each episode tackling a different aspect, from the origins to the types of activity which occurs on it to thoughts on its future. This was really interesting to listen to and I learnt a lot more than I was expecting to about topics such as bitcoin. There is an episode on child pornography which was difficult to listen to, but it starts with a warning so you are able to skip it if you need to and the topic is handled well. This is really informative and a great introduction to anyone who wants to know more about the darker side of the web.