In 1972, long before eBay or Amazon, students from Stanford University in California and MIT in Massachusetts conducted the first ever ecommerce transaction. Using the "Arpa-net" account at their artificial intelligence lab, the Stanford students sold their counterparts a small amount of marijuana. Ever since, the net has turned over a steady but small trade in illicit narcotics. But last year approximately 20 per cent of UK drug users scored online. The majority of them went to one place: the dark net markets.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-08/21/buying-drugs-on-the-dark-net
Many statements in this article don't ring true for me.
"20 per cent of UK drug users scored online. The majority of them went to one place: the dark net markets." Reporter asked 5 people, and one of them lied?
"...as street pushers become redundant." Online trade accounts for less than 1/10,000 of world drug trade.
etc
"Silk Road 2.0... I analysed 120,000 customer reviews made on the site, over 95 percent scored 5/5."
Author probably not a dnm mod.