The Dark Net

Inside the Digital Underworld

By: Jamie Bartlett

Narrated by: Matt Bates

In this important and revealing book, Jamie Bartlett takes us deep into the digital underworld and presents an extraordinary look at the Internet we don't know.

Beginning with the rise of the Internet and the conflicts and battles that defined its early years, Bartlett reports on trolls, pornographers, drug dealers, hackers, political extremists, Bitcoin programmers, and vigilantes - and puts a human face on those who have many reasons to stay anonymous.

Rich with historical research and revelatory reporting, The Dark Net is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at a world that doesn't want to be known.

©2015 Jamie Bartlett (P)2017 Tantor

Critic reviews

"A provocative excursion to the darker side of human nature set free by the anonymous and unregulated boundaries of cyberspace." ( Kirkus)

Opinion from a programmer

Book is a good read for technical and nontechnical readers. Explores relevant topics of the internet and inspires new thoughts as ways of viewing the internet.

Good Introduction to the Dark Web

This book will raise your awareness of what lies below the surface and will give you a glimpse of what you have not imagined. It also shows the high IQ that lives there and a much broader range of ideas than we are accustomed to.

good story, irritating narration

interesting book, irritating narration though. overall would still recommend, explored a lot of different topics.

The book is ok

The book is ok, but concentrated on the drug and porn areas. I would have liked to have seen other areas covered.
needs an update

4/5

good for general knowledge, nothing too technical, narrator was good and had a varied voice. was well organized

meh

this book is not so much about the dark net but the dark corners of the internet. interesting if you don't know that world; otherwise it's a bit basic. narrator tries too hard on the accents.

Awesome book!!!!

Awesome read.... Had difficulties putting it down!!! Not what I expected but in a good way. Thought I was going to get stories of what happened on the dark net. Loved the people involved was able to bring a human element to them. Learned a lot from the book about technology and humanity.

too many sidelines

book supposed to be about the dark net and a portion of it is. there is , however, many things they spend time on that they waste a lit if time talking about but are not really about dark net. thinks like transhumans or child porn are stories that not tell u about dark net.

Amazing Voice!!!

I’ve listened to many audiobooks here. This is the best presented on of all of them. The voice actor is British and changes his voice for other places. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Well done. I recommend the book of you want to know more about the subject too. It is a good overview!

Good, but incomplete

this book is a solid read, and focused on the darker side of the internet. HOWEVER, it does not discuss P2P Darkweb technologies where all servers exist as distributed encrypted chunks. This is an evolution or alternative to Tor hidden services.