Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Web Roundup: The Dark Web
The Dark Web — the secret underground of the Internet — may not be so secret. The most notorious illegal website, the Silk Road, where customers could order illegal drugs, got busted by the FBI last year. This week, questions are being raised about how the FBI cracked that case and whether it violated innocent people’s privacy in the process.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe Dark Web — the secret underground of the Internet — may not be so secret. The most notorious illegal website, the Silk Road, where customers could order illegal drugs, got busted by the FBI last year. This week, questions are being raised about how the FBI cracked that case and whether it violated innocent people’s privacy in the process.
