All Things Vice is a

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that was started in 2012 by

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author and journalist Eileen Ormsby about news in the

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. Since her investigations into the

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in 2012, the

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led her to blog about various happenings in the dark web and two books, ''Silk Road'' (2014) and ''The Darkest Web'' (2018). Ormsby is a former Australian lawyer living in

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. Sought for comment, Ormsby has written, been interviewed and cited on dark web, 419 scams,

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and darknet market issues. She has obtained a number of exclusive interviews from individuals involved in the dark web. She was cited in the trial of drug dealer Paul Leslie Howard that he discovered the Silk Road market after reading the coverage on her site. She also regularly writes scripts for '' Casefile True Crime Podcast'', including some about the dark web. Ormsby is known as an authority on Silk Road and other darknet markets and her work has been cited in academic studies into cyryptomarkets and political and socioeconomic aspects of the dark web. Ormsby has appeared on and consulted to TV shows and documentaries about the dark web, including CBS '' 48 Hours'' "Click for a Killer" (2018),

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UK's ''"''How to Hire a Hitman" and Oxygen TV's "The Dark Web: Fraud and Murder in the Digital Underground." She was also interviewed on episode 124 of the podcast "Meet the Thriller Author" discussing her investigations and writing true crime books.

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* Dark web Darknet markets Australian news websites {{blog-stub