Silk Road back up, Dread Pirate Roberts still running it - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24842410[/url] [quote]Reports suggest that the Silk Road, the anonymous marketplace that traded in drugs and other illegal goods, is back online, in a new version. According to AllThingsVice, a website that monitors the so-called dark net, the new site is already selling a wide range of drugs. The first version of Silk Road was shut down by the FBI in October and its alleged administrator arrested. But those behind it always vowed to revive the site. The new administrator of the revived site has adopted the same handle as the previous operator - Dread Pirate Roberts. The FBI believe that arrested 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht was the mastermind behind the original site. Mr Ulbricht has denied all charges[/quote] So, someone else using the same name, or is Ulbricht not DPR after all?

Well, seems like the name might have been more than just a badass moniker. After all (spoilers for a 20-year-old movie), Dread Pirate Roberts was not just one man, but a series of dread pirate captains, each passing the title on to a successor. That is, of course, assuming that Ulbricht was a DPR at all - he could merely be a convenient fall guy for the actually DPR, or even just a random person grabbed by the FBI so they could say they caught someone. The best part is, even if Ulbricht was a DPR, someone else using the same name to do the same thing casts doubt on him being DPR in the first place. Very clever.

[QUOTE=Rents;42778454][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24842410[/url] So, someone else using the same name, or is Ulbricht not DPR after all?[/QUOTE] the world may never know [video=youtube;fq3abPnEEGE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq3abPnEEGE[/video]

Smells like a honeypot.

[QUOTE=Rents;42778454]So, someone else using the same name, or is Ulbricht not DPR after all?[/QUOTE] Even before this that was what people thought happened since Ulbricht was awful at PHP.

[QUOTE=chipset;42778520]Smells like a honeypot.[/QUOTE] My thoughts exactly. I would be very cautious about buying there.

I know nothing about Silk Road, but I can guarantee it's probably a different operator purely due to the name used.

Cool, now I have a place to buy my child porn and heroin again.

[QUOTE=pentium;42778757]Cool, now I have a place to buy my child porn and heroin again.[/QUOTE] you can't buy cp on silk road. you can buy heroin though...copious amounts of it.

I don't see the problem with this site, if people want drugs it's not impossible to find them wherever you are, but Silk Road provides reputable vendors with safer/uncut drugs.

[QUOTE=pentium;42778757]Cool, now I have a place to buy my child porn and heroin again.[/QUOTE] Yeah, the guy in the trench coat that stands in that alleyway I've had to go to since it went down was giving me the creeps.

Time to use TOR again to see if i can find some.

[QUOTE=yawmwen;42778771]you can't buy cp on silk road. you can buy heroin though...copious amounts of it.[/QUOTE] more like opious heuehuehuheuheuh

You are all under arrest.

[QUOTE=Lukeo;42778792]I don't see the problem with this site, if people want drugs it's not impossible to find them wherever you are, but Silk Road provides reputable vendors with safer/uncut drugs.[/QUOTE] That doesn't make it legal, just a better illegal alternative, so of course they're still going to be prosecuted by the FBI. The site suddenly coming back after being taken down by an agency with the resources of the FBI seems [i]really[/i] suspicious.

[QUOTE=catbarf;42778876]That doesn't make it legal, just a better illegal alternative, so of course they're still going to be prosecuted by the FBI. The site suddenly coming back after being taken down by an agency with the resources of the FBI seems [i]really[/i] suspicious.[/QUOTE] maybe they had a backup of the site somewhere hidden, or distributed to certain people who are supposed to keep silk road going in the event of something like this.

[URL="http://www.state.gov/p/sca/ci/af/newsilkroad/"]The US has announced it's support for the new Silk Road[/URL]

[QUOTE=Starpluck;42779243][URL="http://www.state.gov/p/sca/ci/af/newsilkroad/"]The US has announced it's support for the new Silk Road[/URL][/QUOTE] Yep, definitely a honeypot.

[QUOTE=Starpluck;42779243][URL="http://www.state.gov/p/sca/ci/af/newsilkroad/"]The US has announced it's support for the new Silk Road[/URL][/QUOTE] And this is why naming your site after something really well known can end up being hilarious.

[QUOTE=chipset;42778520]Smells like a honeypot.[/QUOTE] I want to agree but [quote]According to Ken Westin, a researcher with security firm TripWire, the site looks genuine. "It appears to be run by the same folks that were running it before," he said.[/quote] idk

I don't trust any of that shit. [url]http://bmreloaded.com[/url] is more established right now.

Well this explains the resurgence in the value of the bitcoin.

[QUOTE=catbarf;42778876]That doesn't make it legal, just a better illegal alternative, so of course they're still going to be prosecuted by the FBI. The site suddenly coming back after being taken down by an agency with the resources of the FBI seems [I]really[/I] suspicious.[/QUOTE]Consider the following: [URL="http://i.imgur.com/T18Ki1S.png"]this takedown notice[/URL] has a Silk Road watermark; compare to [url=http://i.imgur.com/qgT8BTX.jpg]these[/url] [URL="http://i.imgur.com/FXsBftY.jpg"]other[/URL] [URL="http://i.imgur.com/wJGfqhJ.jpg"]notices[/URL], things don't add up.

And the favicon is unchanged, unless in that pic its cached

[QUOTE=Starpluck;42779243][URL="http://www.state.gov/p/sca/ci/af/newsilkroad/"]The US has announced it's support for the new Silk Road[/URL][/QUOTE] What? Is this about some other silk road?

[QUOTE=Medevila;42780681]That kind of thing isn't standardized Just look at all the websites, seals, logos- there's no design continuity in the federal gov't[/QUOTE]Whoops, accidentally posted the same images twice. Anywho, none of them have the website's logo on them, they either mention the name in the text body or why it was takendown. A few more things: it was taken down during the shutdown, and no press release was ever issued by the FBI. Addendum: I don't remember facepunch's edit function being terrible.

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;42780759]What? Is this about some other silk road?[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road[/url]

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;42780759]What? Is this about some other silk road?[/QUOTE] Only the actual Silk Road the site was named after...

This whole ordeal with the feds is great advertising too.

Great! Now I don't have to meet shady people in secluded areas to get my redbacks