Chris Tarbell
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was really the first dark market website.
You literally could buy anything there.
take that back.
You couldn't, there's two things you couldn't buy there.
You couldn't buy guns because that was a different website.
Uh, and you couldn't buy fake degrees.
So no one could become a doctor.
Um, but you could buy literally whatever else you wanted.
You could host things, drugs.
You could buy heroin right from Afghanistan, the good stuff.
Um,
Hacking tools.
You could hack for hire.
You could buy murders for hire if you wanted someone killed.
Now, so when I was an FBI agent, I had to kind of sell some of these cases.
And this was a big drug case.
You know, that's the way people saw Silk Road.
So internally to the FBI, how I had to sell it, I had to find the worst thing on there that I could possibly find.
And I think one time I saw a posting for baby parts online.
So let's say that you, you know, had a young child and that needed a liver.