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All Things Vice

All Things Vice

Blog by journalist about the dark web

All Things Vice is a blog that was started in 2012 by Australian author and journalist Eileen Ormsby about news in the dark web. Since her investigations into the Silk Road in 2012,[1] the darknet market led her to blog[2] about various happenings in the dark web and two books, Silk Road (2014)[3] and The Darkest Web (2018).[4][5]

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Ormsby is a former Australian lawyer living in Melbourne. Sought for comment,[6][7] Ormsby has written,[8][9] been interviewed and cited on dark web, 419 scams,[10] bitcoin and darknet market issues.[11] She has obtained a number of exclusive interviews[12] from individuals involved in the dark web. She was cited in the trial of drug dealer Paul Leslie Howard that he discovered the Silk Road market after reading the coverage on her site.[13][14] She also regularly writes scripts for Casefile True Crime Podcast, including some about the dark web.[15]

Ormsby is known as an authority on Silk Road and other darknet markets[16] and her work has been cited in academic studies into cyryptomarkets [17][18] and political and socioeconomic aspects of the dark web.[19][20]

Ormsby has appeared on and consulted to TV shows and documentaries about the dark web,[21] including CBS 48 Hours "Click for a Killer" (2018),[22] Channel 4 UK's "How to Hire a Hitman"[23] and Oxygen TV's "The Dark Web: Fraud and Murder in the Digital Underground."[24] She was also interviewed on episode 124 of the podcast "Meet the Thriller Author" discussing her investigations and writing true crime books.[25]

References

  1. [1]
    Ormsby, Eileen (2012-04-26). "The drug's in the mail". The Age. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  2. [2]
    "All Things Vice". Eileen Ormsby. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  3. [3]
    Ormsby, Eileen (2014). Silk Road. Macmillan Australia. ISBN 9781742614090.
  4. [4]
    Bri Lee. "The Darkest Web: exploring the ugly world of illegal online marketplaces". The Guardian, 21 Mar 2018.
  5. [5]
    Ormsby, Eileen (2019). The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives ... the Inside Story of the Internet's Evil Twin. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-76087-562-6.
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    Foxton, Willard (4 October 2013). "If Silk Road Was A Legitimate Startup, It Would Be Worth ~ $2.4 Billion". Business Insider. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  7. [7]
    Monks, Kieron (1 May 2013). "Battlefield Dark Web: Drugs, assassins and bank fraud for sale on the 'other Internet'". Metro World News. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  8. [8]
    Ormsby, Eileen (20 October 2014). "Fernando Caudevilla: Spanish doctor advises drug users on the dark web's Silk Road". The Age. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  9. [9]
    Ormsby, Eileen (2012-12-03). "Dancing with Molly". The Age. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  10. [10]
    Ormsby, Eileen (18 July 2012). "From Nigeria with love". The Age. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  11. [11]
    "Dark net marketplace Silk Road 'back online'". BBC News. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  12. [12]
    Chen, Adrian (28 September 2013). "How a Social Media Guy Took an Underground Drug Market Viral". Gawker. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  13. [13]
    Solon, Olivia (3 February 2013). "Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction". ArsTechnica. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  14. [14]
    "Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  15. [15]
    "Episodes written by Eileen Ormsby". Casefile: True Crime Podcast. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  16. [16]
    Greenberg, Andy (2022). Tracers in the dark: the global hunt for the crime lords of cryptocurrency (First ed.). New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-54810-6.
  17. [17]
    Martin, James; Munksgaard, Rasmus; Coomber, Ross; Demant, Jakob; Barratt, Monica J (2019-11-28). "Selling Drugs on Darkweb Cryptomarkets: Differentiated Pathways, Risks and Rewards". The British Journal of Criminology. 60 (3): 559–578. doi:10.1093/bjc/azz075. hdl:1959.4/unsworks_73360. ISSN 0007-0955.
  18. [18]
    Jardine, Eric (2021-12-01). "Policing the Cybercrime Script of Darknet Drug Markets: Methods of Effective Law Enforcement Intervention". American Journal of Criminal Justice. 46 (6): 980–1005. doi:10.1007/s12103-021-09656-3. ISSN 1936-1351.
  19. [19]
    Tiberg, Fredrik; Nordgren, Johan (June 2022). "Ordinary people, criminals, addicts and recreational users: Swedish court of law descriptions of persons sentenced for online drug purchases". Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 39 (3): 225–239. doi:10.1177/14550725221079524. ISSN 1455-0725. PMC 9152228. PMID 35720522.
  20. [20]
    Moeller, Kim; Munksgaard, Rasmus; Demant, Jakob (October 2017). "Flow My FE the Vendor Said: Exploring Violent and Fraudulent Resource Exchanges on Cryptomarkets for Illicit Drugs". American Behavioral Scientist. 61 (11): 1427–1450. doi:10.1177/0002764217734269. ISSN 0002-7642.
  21. [21]
    "Speaking & Consulting". Eileen Ormsby. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  22. [22]
    Sant, Peter Van (2018-09-29). ""48 Hours" disrupts alleged dark web hitmen in potential murder-for-hire plots - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  23. [23]
    "Watch How to Hire a Hitman | Stream free on Channel 4". www.channel4.com. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  24. [24]
    "THE DARK WEB: Fraud and Murder in the Digital Underground". Oxygen Official Site. 2023-06-05. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  25. [25]


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