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🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We visit the Dark Web, where you can get heroin, fentanyl and oxycontin shipped right to your door. This week, we stress out our IT department with our searches and talk to author Nick Bilton about the Silk Road, online drug markets, and the opioid crisis in America.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Manouche from Note To Self.
0:02.7	I know some of you like to listen to these episodes in the car with your kids.
0:06.1	So I just want to let you know there are a couple naughty words that I say in this episode.
0:10.2	But the topic is super important and really interesting.
0:13.7	We all should understand this issue.
0:15.9	So save it for later if you don't want to listen right now.
0:20.7	Wait, I feel nervous.
0:21.8	How are we going to know when we've crossed over from the regular web to the dark web?
0:25.6	Well, we're still just in Reddit.
0:27.2	Oh.
0:30.8	Note To Self, producer Kat Aeron and I wanted to finally see it for ourselves.
0:35.2	The dark web.
0:36.6	It's a place online that you need special software called Tor, T-O-R, to access.
0:42.9	It's where websites live that Google would never index.
0:46.5	And no one on there knows who you are.
0:52.0	Dark web.
0:53.6	Deep web, dark web.
0:54.8	They're different, I learned.
0:56.2	They are different.
0:57.0	That's true.
0:58.3	The deep web is all of the sites that are not accessible from Google.
1:03.5	They're not the web that most people spend most of their time on.
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