15 Nov 2018

Drugs and the Dark Net

From Nine To Noon, 9:29 am on 15 November 2018
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How is New Zealand's drug trade being affected by the influence of the dark web?

A team at Massey University led by Associate Professor Chris Wilkins will investigate the role that the anonymous deep web is having on New Zealand's illegal drug trade.

The team will use web-crawlers to find out the volume and how much people pay for illegal drugs over the internet.

The research will be funded by an $863,000 grant from the Marsden fund.

Professor Chris Wilkins joins Kathryn to talk about dark net's potential to change and disrupt NZ's drug trade.