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To What Extent Do Different Countries Facilitate the Illicit Sale of Cocaine to the United States on the Dark Web?
By Nolan Russell and Emma Shanahan The trafficking of drugs through dark web markets has become very common. To access the dark web, users use the TOR browser, which encrypts the user’s traffic through three random nodes to hide any identifying information, such as names or IP addresses. This allows anyone visiting the dark…
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Which Countries Visit the Most Hidden Services Sites?
This week, my new article with Eric Jardine and Gareth Owenson, “The potential harms of the Tor anonymity network cluster disproportionately in free countries,” came out in PNAS. Using a global sample of Tor users, we show that a higher percentage of Tor clients in politically free countries go to hidden services sites than…