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Crackdowns Haven’t Stopped the Dark Web’s $100M Yearly Drug Sales

Submitted by Marijuana News on Sat, 08/15/2015 - 02:20

AFTER MORE THAN four years and two giant law enforcement busts, the Dark Web’s drug market is still just as robust as it was during the Silk Road’s heyday. In fact, according to a new study, it’s now moving well over $100 million of illegal substances a year, and it’s recovering from every new scam-induced setback and government crackdown faster than the last one.

Those are a few of the lessons from a deep-dive study into Dark Web black market sales statistics that a pair of Carnegie Mellon researchers plan to present at the Usenix Security conference Wednesday. From 2013 to early 2015, they used automated software to “scrape” the visible contents of 35 Dark Web markets, counting the number of feedback ratings that the major drug sites require buyers to leave after each sale and then multiplying them by the purchased item’s listed price to gauge total sales volumes. The...

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