All Things Vice

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All Things Vice
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Founded2012
Created byEileen Ormsby
Founder(s) Eileen Ormsby

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]

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]

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References

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  2. ↑ "All Things Vice". Eileen Ormsby. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  3. ↑ Ormsby, Eileen (2014). Silk Road. Macmillan Australia. ISBN   9781742614090.
  4. ↑ Bri Lee. "The Darkest Web: exploring the ugly world of illegal online marketplaces". The Guardian, 21 Mar 2018.
  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.
  6. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 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.
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  10. ↑ Ormsby, Eileen (18 July 2012). "From Nigeria with love". The Age. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  11. ↑ "Dark net marketplace Silk Road 'back online'". BBC News. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
  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.
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  21. ↑ "Speaking & Consulting". Eileen Ormsby. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  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.
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  25. ↑ "MTTA 124: Eileen Ormsby". December 2020.


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