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What did the random shopper bot buy on the dark net?

Carmen Weisskopf gave a software bot some bitcoins and sent it shopping in the deep web – where it bought things that no bot has bought before

By Alison George

15 December 2015

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Tell me about your art project to use a bot to randomly shop on the dark net.
The Random Darknet Shopper is a bot programmed to shop in the deep web or dark net once a week, with a maximum budget of $100 in Bitcoins.

What exactly are the deep web and dark net?
The deep web is part of the internet comprised of all the web pages that aren’t indexed by search engines, such as intranets. It’s actually larger than the “surface web” that most people are used to. Part of the deep web is encrypted…

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