Motion graphic: Onion routing, Tor, dark net markets, crypto currencies explained

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The last decade has seen the emergence of new internet technologies that have acted as important facilitators of online drug markets. The EMCDDA publication on Internet and drug markets aims to unravel some of the complexities surrounding these markets: what they are, how they operate, the technologies underlying them and how they interact with the traditional drug market. Experts on both the deep web and the surface web provide insights from IT, research and monitoring, law enforcement and drug user perspectives.

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