The main thing about him is that he was a pathetic, friendless, sad little boy. You were at his sentencing hearing in 2016, where the judge described him as “pure evil.” What did you make of him? Matthew Graham, the young man who ran the dark web’s worst pedophile and "hurtcore" sites from his bedroom in Melbourne. The people on the dark web are not as physically scary and intimidating as the people in the underworld, but if someone can order a murder at the touch of a button, maybe you don’t have to be. The computer nerd who has never hit someone in their life can suddenly be a kingpin. It is used by whistle-blowers or people in oppressive countries.īut it can also make people do things they would never do in their real lives or would never admit to. It gives people a voice who wouldn’t normally have one. The thing that marks the dark web out is its cloak of secrecy, and what that makes people do. Our lives are so online now that the online world is the real world. Is the dark web community closed off from the real world? That can be a good thing and it can also be used for bad. These tools mean that like-minded people can get together for more nefarious purposes, safe in the knowledge that they can’t be tracked. They are confident that they will not be identified in real life, nor will their meeting place be shut down. The dark web provides a place where members can give themselves a name and identity that becomes their own. Doxxing is considered the most heinous of crimes. VICE: How important is secrecy to the dark web community?Įileen: Anonymity is sacrosanct on the dark web. I spoke to Eileen about her trip into the dark web’s soul and what this secretive domain really says about us. But the most startling moments of the book happen when she comes face-to-face with some of its key players. A disillusioned corporate lawyer turned writer from Australia, Eileen’s new book, The Darkest Web, is the story of her journey, from drug markets and contract killing sites to the Internet’s seediest alcoves. It was into this murky zone-teeming with rumors of secret government files and gladiatorial fights to the death-that journalist and blogger Eileen Ormsby propelled herself.
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