The Silk Road 2 seized by FBI and ICE - Polidicks

[url]http://www.wired.com/2014/11/feds-seize-silk-road-2/[/url] [IMG]http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/fbi-inline-660x501.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]A year after the Silk Road 2 came online promising to revive the Dark Web drug trade following its predecessor’s seizure by the FBI, the sequel has suffered the same fate.[/QUOTE] [editline]6th November 2014[/editline] When will the US government learn that the war on drugs is over? There are dozens of more of these hidden sites and people are getting smarter in the fight against law enforcement. PGP encryption will be the dominating force in these online struggles. The only reason SR2 was seized is because the admin let his guard down and hired an undercover agent as staff.

What a complete waste of resources on their part.

how long until silkroad 3

I dont mind this at all. They cant stop this from happening the more they shut down the more market places like these will pop up that will be harder to prevent people tend to learn from their mistakes and make their profit more robust. They only helping it advance. As there is huge sums of money involved and it will never end. Ordering drugs never been so easy and safe these days they can never take it from us! While also getting qaulity product 95% of the time if you arent dumb about who you order from.

I'd much rather them take down child porn sites.

i should really get into this buying drugs from the internet thing

[QUOTE=Crash155;46425009]I'd much rather them tackle child porn sites[/QUOTE] but that doesn't make them money

Mentioned in the article are other sites that have surpassed The SR2 in sales, Agora and Revolution. Check em out

oh no! they're selling drugs!

[QUOTE]Blake Benthall, 26, of San Francisco, Ca., faces life imprisonment after being charged with one count of conspiring to commit narcotics trafficking, one count of conspiring to commit computer hacking, one count of conspiring to traffic in fraudulent identification documents and one count of money laundering conspiracy. Benthall, also known as “Defcon”, allegedly started the Silk Road 2.0 website in Nov. 2013, after law enforcement officials shut down the original Silk Road website and arrested its alleged proprietor, Ross William Ulbricht (known online as “Dread Pirate Roberts”) in Oct. 2013.[/QUOTE]

Silk road went to shit ages ago. Agora is where it's at

[QUOTE=Medevila;46425038]they do it, regardless[/QUOTE]unfortunately we don't live in an ideal world

Looks like they made a snazzy new seized page.

[QUOTE=cody8295;46425063]-charges-[/QUOTE] I'm curious where they got fraud charges and computer hacking from

Wait is that image an actual screenshot? Do they actually have a huge text saying "This hidden site has been seized"? I mean what is the point, people accessing it know it is hidden and people who are not accessing it will not see it anyway.

[QUOTE=Medevila;46425038]they do it, regardless[/QUOTE] When was the last time they publicly took down a darknet child porn site?

[QUOTE=cody8295;46424971]When will the US government learn that the war on drugs is over? There are dozens of more of these hidden sites and people are getting smarter in the fight against law enforcement.[/QUOTE] You can apply that logic to literally any organized crime (including the child pornography rings that everyone keeps saying the FBI should be going after instead), yet people only seem to use this argument when drug websites are getting busted.

[QUOTE=mugofdoom;46425276]When was the last time they publicly took down a darknet child porn site?[/QUOTE] They took down a host that hosted several from what I understand. It was called freedom host I think.

What they need to do is make Silk Road 3 and Silk Road 4 at the same time. while the police are working on bringing down Silk Road 3 all of the real stuff is happening at [I]Silk Road 4[/I] my plan is perfect

[QUOTE=catbarf;46425299]You can apply that logic to literally any organized crime (including the child pornography rings that everyone keeps saying the FBI should be going after instead), yet people only seem to use this argument when drug websites are getting busted.[/QUOTE] Drug use and availability have risen considerably since the war on drugs was instated. You cannot say the same about any other form of organized crime, especially considering the US government pours more money into the war on drugs than it does combating any other form of organized crime.

Just as I predicted. People should stop using Silk Road already. OpenBazaar (a.k.a. DarkMarket) is the future. (It's peer-to-peer)

[QUOTE=deadoon;46425306]They took down a host that hosted several from what I understand. It was called freedom host I think.[/QUOTE] Ah. I ask because I can't remember them ever making such a spectacle out of busting a child porn site as they have busting the Silk Road sites.

[QUOTE=Crash155;46425009]I'd much rather them take down child porn sites.[/QUOTE] I'd rather they do both. It's not like it has to be one or the other.

War on pedophiles please

[QUOTE=RichyZ;46425070]wasnt this already super suspicious how it popped up like a minute after the first site was taken down?[/QUOTE] Silk road 2 was sketchy but not for that reason. There was evidence the admins stole a lot of money. Silk road 2 was legit when it first started, and DPR 2 was running it. It went to shit when he disappeared

Only scrubs use Silkroad2 anyways :v:

Silk Road 2 was full of scam artists and had extremely little quality control. I'm glad.

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;46425234]I'm curious where they got fraud charges and computer hacking from[/QUOTE] I heard SR2 stole money so that might be the fraud charge at least, hacking might also be related to the money stealing if they took it directly from people's accounts (why you would put money in an account on a black market website is beyond me..). [editline]6th November 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Crash155;46425009]I'd much rather them take down child porn sites.[/QUOTE] Why do people act like companies / agencies can only do one thing at a time? The ICE / FBI / Europol have resources dedicated to fighting child porn, kidnapping, human trafficking, and related activities. Just because a handful of agents are sitting at desks trying to get rid of black market websites doesn't mean other areas are affected. Chances are if they took those men and put them on other cases, nothing would happen because other cases are already sufficiently staffed. It's like having 2 cashiers per register, that doesn't increase performance, it's just a waste.

Cloud 9 and hydra have gone too. Whatever they are. Wish sr never existed. They didn't do shit when it was private forums with a strict invite system. Ah the good old days

[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;46425396]War on pedophiles please[/QUOTE] As long as the people who produce CP go to federal prisons and the ones consuming it get mental help, I'm down for a war against pedos.