SilkRoad 2.0 along with 400 other Darknet sites shut down in joint Europol and US Raids :( - Polidicks

[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29950946[/URL] [QUOTE][B]Silk Road 2.0 and 400 other sites believed to be selling illegal items including drugs and weapons have been shut down.[/B]The sites operated on the Tor network - a part of the internet unreachable via traditional search engines. The joint operation between 16 European countries and the US saw 17 arrests, including Blake Benthall who is said to be behind Silk Road 2.0. Experts believe the shutdown represents a breakthrough for fighting cybercrime. Six Britons were also arrested, including a 20-year-old man from Liverpool, a 19-year-old man from New Waltham, a 30 year-old-man from Cleethorpes and a man and woman, both aged 58, from Aberdovey, Wales. All were interviewed and bailed according to the National Crime Agency. Tor is home to thousands of illegal marketplaces, trading in drugs, child abuse images as well as sites for extremist groups. [IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74982000/jpg/_74982321_line976.jpg[/IMG] [B]Analysis: Rory Cellan-Jones, technology correspondent[/B][IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/78829000/jpg/_78829357_skull.jpg[/IMG] It was the operation last year to take down the drugs marketplace Silk Road which was the first major success in the battle against criminal use of the dark net. Now this much bigger operation involving global cooperation amongst law enforcement agencies sees that battle taken to a new level, with Silk Road 2.0 amongst 400 sites closed. It's important to remember that the dark net isn't all about illegal activity. Indeed its best known tool the anonymising browser Tor was created by a US intelligence agency to help its operations and to assist people living under repressive regimes. Last year, many predicted that shutting one online drugs bazaar - and arresting its alleged owner Ross William Ulbricht - would not make a lot of difference, with plenty more rushing to fill the gap. Now this much bigger operation may signal that the authorities have developed new techniques to track down the origins of these networks and those behind them. Still, the number of arrests may be telling - 400 sites closed, but just 17 arrests. That would suggest there is a lot of work still to be done. [IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74982000/jpg/_74982321_line976.jpg[/IMG] Silk Road 2.0 - which launched in October last year - is one of the most notorious and deals in the buying and selling of illegal drugs. It was resurrected after the original Silk Road site was shut down and its alleged owner arrested. [B]'Serious organised crime'[/B]The operation also saw the seizure of Bitcoins worth approximately $1m (£632,000). "Today we have demonstrated that, together, we are able to efficiently remove vital criminal infrastructures that are supporting serious organised crime," said Troels Oerting, head of Europol's European cybercrime centre. "And we are not 'just' removing these services from the open internet; this time we have also hit services on the dark net using Tor where, for a long time, criminals have considered themselves beyond reach," he added. The BBC understands that the raid represented both a technological breakthrough - with police using new techniques to track down the physical location of dark net servers - as well as seeing an unprecedented level of international co-operation among law enforcement agencies.[/QUOTE] How long before silkroad 3?

What's with the stupid sad smiley in title? Illegal websites got shut down, go cry about it.

[QUOTE=itisjuly;46431230]What's with the stupid sad smiley in title? Illegal websites got shut down, go cry about it.[/QUOTE] Sorry mom

[QUOTE=itisjuly;46431230]What's with the stupid sad smiley in title? Illegal websites got shut down, go cry about it.[/QUOTE] i will actually

[QUOTE=itisjuly;46431230]What's with the stupid sad smiley in title? Illegal websites got shut down, go cry about it.[/QUOTE] Oh; so you're surprised that people have differing opinions on this than you? That's strange. I know the base argument for this is that in terms of buying drugs this was the safest way to get drugs because you ACTUALLY knew what you were getting compared to the street where you'd have to test that shit yourself to make sure. (And not everything can be tested)

[QUOTE=itisjuly;46431230]What's with the stupid sad smiley in title? Illegal websites got shut down, go cry about it.[/QUOTE] Boohoo somebody likes something and is sad it's shut down, better comment to tell them how stupid it is. I'm holding a candle lit vigil for all the lost sites and will be playing my heart will go on on loop for 10 hours in memory.

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... So they hit the (mostly) benign black market and drug sites but I bet if I try right now I'll still find the sick fuck hangouts. Not that I care about any of that, I don't do drugs, (anymore) I don't have nasty fetishes, and I don't need illegal goods or services. I just don't understand why the drug thing is such a big goddamn deal, I hope that maybe they'll use the seized assets to fund an effort in catching the kidfuckers because that's waaay more important in my book.

Well there's Agora :)

It was an illegal website, it got shut down. I personally support drug legalization but you're idiotic if you think this was in some way unjust.

I just hope that the majority of the sites they shut down were kiddy fiddler sites.

i tipped them off

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In case anyone is wondering about why child porn sites stay up, there is a reason: honey pot. They do go after these sites, but instead of just taking them down they take control over them and use them to track down the people using them.

Looks like the biggest purveyors of drug/gun dealing, money laundering, assassinations, and secrecy didn't like the competition from those who are doing it illegally.

[QUOTE=ImperialGuard;46431847]It was an illegal website, it got shut down. I personally support drug legalization but you're idiotic if you think this was in some way unjust.[/QUOTE] Just doesn't really mean legal to me

[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;46433092]In case anyone is wondering about why child porn sites stay up, there is a reason: honey pot. They do go after these sites, but instead of just taking them down they take control over them and use them to track down the people using them.[/QUOTE] I am not surprised, they go for illegal drugs sites and there war on drugs. The child porn sites wont be attacked because they might be able to catch a lot of government employees who support them.

Thank god Agora is still up just ordered some "cookies"

Shit. I guess ill just order mimosa hostilis and extract the DMT myself now.