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Articles on dark net

September 2, 2021

How the world’s biggest dark web platform spreads millions of items of child sex abuse material — and why it’s hard to stop

Roderic Broadhurst, Australian National University and Matthew Ball, Australian National University

One study found 80% of darknet traffic on Tor went to sites hosting unmoderated porn and child sex abuse material.

January 23, 2019

Andrew Childs, Griffith University; Leah Moyle, Royal Holloway University of London; Monica Barratt, UNSW Sydney, and Ross Coomber, University of Liverpool

Buyers think you can tell the purity of a substance by looking at on an app – evidence shows they’re mistaken.

June 26, 2018

Stuart Macdonald, Swansea University

Companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft are working together to take down terrorist propaganda.

March 7, 2018

Andrew Childs, Griffith University and Melissa Bull, Griffith University

The increasing availability of drugs online raises questions about policing methods that were developed to deal with more traditional drug markets.

Andrew Childs
Lecturer, Griffith University
Roderic Broadhurst
Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
Leah Moyle
Lecturer in Criminology, Royal Holloway University of London
Ross Coomber
Professor of Criminology and Sociology, University of Liverpool
Stuart Macdonald
Professor of Law, Swansea University
Matthew Ball
Laboratory Coordinator at the Australian National University's Cybercrime Observatory, Australian National University
Monica Barratt
Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Social Equity Research Centre and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University
Melissa Bull
Director, QUT Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology