The Dark Web: Exploring the 'murder-for-hire' sites
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood explores the use of "murder-for-hire" websites with hacker and dark web vigilante Chris Monteiro, while one victim tells us how dangerous they are.
Also, Andy Greenberg, author of Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency and senior writer at WIRED magazine, helps us understand what is being done to combat them.
Producers: Soila Apparicio and Tom Gillespie
Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:00.0 | Add water to your will. |
| 0:02.0 | And know that from that single drop, |
| 0:05.0 | life will grow. |
| 0:08.0 | Communities will flourish. |
| 0:10.0 | A better world will be left. |
| 0:13.0 | By leaving a gift in your will to Water Aid, |
| 0:16.0 | you'll help bring essential clean water to people who need it, |
| 0:20.0 | to change their own lives for generations |
| 0:22.4 | to come. Add water aid to your will. Search WaterAid legacy to find out how. You know, when Helen |
| 0:31.0 | used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? Fine, she'd say. She clearly wasn't. After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found |
| 0:42.3 | this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
| 0:49.8 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. Can't get a word in. |
| 0:55.0 | Give your skills new life. |
| 0:56.6 | Train others. |
| 0:57.7 | Search jobs in further education. |
| 1:04.0 | Free, open and accessible. |
| 1:06.2 | That's what the internet was designed to be. |
| 1:09.1 | But there's a hidden space online where your activity can be anonymous and private, known |
| 1:14.1 | as the Dark Web. |
| 1:16.4 | The Dark Web has a reputation for being used for outright criminal activities, buying and |
| 1:20.9 | selling drugs, fraud and illegal pornography. |
| 1:23.7 | Normally I think that the Dark Web is a more secure place to buy drugs because of the customer |
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