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Drug Markets on the Dark Web

The everyday use of the World Wide Web has allowed an easy engagement with various global services. For example, electronic commerce (e-commerce) is a highly developing sector with an estimated 2.3 trillion US dollars in worldwide sales per year. In spite of the countless legal tangible products and services offered by vendors and manufacturers, illegal platforms have also expanded online. The most worrying for international authorities is the Dark Web, and specifically the markets that exist on this hidden part of the internet. Dark markets (also known as DNMs) are commercial websites on the Dark Web that work via networks such as TOR, I2P, and Freenet. Precisely, the Dark Web consists of markets that have to ...

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