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Title: Silk Road was taken down
Post by: scottws on Thursday, October 03, 2013, 10:53:27 AM

U.S. Feds found and captured the Silk Road site operator and at least one of the Silk Road servers and have taken the operation down.  Really interesting article on Ars Technica here (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/how-the-feds-took-down-the-dread-pirate-roberts/).

For those that don't know, Silk Road was an anonymous online marketplace for illegal goods such as drugs and fake identification accessible only via the Tor network.

No, I never visited or used the site in any manner.  I only once connected to Tor to feel good about doing supposedly truly anonymous searches on Duck Duck Go just to say I did.

Title: Re: Silk Road was taken down
Post by: idolminds on Thursday, October 03, 2013, 11:14:09 AM

I find it most interesting that they had to find him outside of the Tor network itself.

Title: Re: Silk Road was taken down
Post by: Cools! on Monday, October 07, 2013, 02:23:26 PM

I was really hoping Tor would stay "secure", but seems that nothing is safe from authorities anymore.

Title: Re:
Post by: scottws on Monday, October 07, 2013, 03:02:51 PM

Actually Tor is still pretty secure, but you have to be real careful. I will dig up a few Ars Technica articles.