All Things Vice is a

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that was started in 2012 by Australian author and journalist Eileen Ormsby about news in the

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. Since her investigations into the Silk Road in 2013, the

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led her to blog about various happenings in the dark web and publish 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,

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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.

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