The Armory is an anonymous marketplace where you can buy and sell without revealing who you are. We protect your identity through every step of the process, from connecting to this site, to purchasing your items, to finally receiving them....
To get to The Armoury, you need to deploy a free piece of software called TOR.
TOR routes and reroutes your connection to the internet through a sprawling maze of encrypted nodes around the world, making it a herculean feat to find out who’s who. The Armory’s URL — ayjkg6ombrsahbx2.onion — reflects that, a garbled string of letters and numbers deliberately impossible to memorise. Once you’re actually signed in, you then have to turn to Bitcoins as mandatory currency, a further exercise in computer secrecy and complexity in itself. This ain’t exactly walking into a gun show and walking out with a pistol.
That receiving part is almost as tricky as the labyrinthine purchasing process. How exactly do you illegally ship illegal guns to potential criminals? In pieces. Small pieces. The crafty gun dealers of The Armory aren’t going to just stick an assault rifle into a manilla envelope and drop it into a local mailbox. Rather, buyers get each gun component shipped in shielded packages — disguised to look like other products — that then require self-assembly. You get your gun, the dealer gets his money, The Armory retains its secrecy, and the mail carrier doesn’t realise it’s part of an international weapons smuggling operation
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/07/the-secret-online-weapons-store-that-will-sell-anyone-anything/
To get to The Armoury, you need to deploy a free piece of software called TOR.
TOR routes and reroutes your connection to the internet through a sprawling maze of encrypted nodes around the world, making it a herculean feat to find out who’s who. The Armory’s URL — ayjkg6ombrsahbx2.onion — reflects that, a garbled string of letters and numbers deliberately impossible to memorise. Once you’re actually signed in, you then have to turn to Bitcoins as mandatory currency, a further exercise in computer secrecy and complexity in itself. This ain’t exactly walking into a gun show and walking out with a pistol.
That receiving part is almost as tricky as the labyrinthine purchasing process. How exactly do you illegally ship illegal guns to potential criminals? In pieces. Small pieces. The crafty gun dealers of The Armory aren’t going to just stick an assault rifle into a manilla envelope and drop it into a local mailbox. Rather, buyers get each gun component shipped in shielded packages — disguised to look like other products — that then require self-assembly. You get your gun, the dealer gets his money, The Armory retains its secrecy, and the mail carrier doesn’t realise it’s part of an international weapons smuggling operation
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/07/the-secret-online-weapons-store-that-will-sell-anyone-anything/
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