Feds seize hefty Bitcoin haul during Silk Road smackdown

[Myxt]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2051367/feds-seize-hefty-bitcoin-haul-during-silk-road-smackdown.html

U.S. drug enforcement officials removed a long-standing thorn in their side Wednesday, as the FBI seized the notorious Silk Road trading site and filed charges against Ross William Ulbricht.

The Silk Road functioned as a sort of Ebay for drugs and other oft-illegal merchandise, serving as an anonymous marketplace connecting buyers with sellers, complete with an escrow system to reduce transactional risk.

Whenever I see these busts, I can't help thinking that civilian security warriors provided useful evidence along the way.

EDIT 2013/10/03 21:02 UTC: More details
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/2/4795502/the-fbi-busted-silk-road-but-not-the-dark-web-behind-it

[Guest]

Whenever I see these busts, I can't help thinking that civilian security warriors provided useful evidence along the way.

I fully agree and I hear through "the grapevine" that more bust are coming

[Myxt]

Update: detail link added to OP.

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Yep, it's been seized:

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https://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion.to/

[Myxt]

<quote user="c۞g">Yep, it's been seized:

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[the web site address]

[/quote]In case anyone did not read it, they are currently monitoring that site to see who visits.

[Guest]

@Myxt =

I found the article about Tor quite fascinating
In my opinion we are creatures of habit, and routines make us very predictable, even for Tor


Steve Santorelli, a former Scotland Yard detective

I never heard of that expression before, but a good one
htxxxtp://www.wisegeek.org/where-did-the-term-get-your-ducks-in-a-row-come-from.[ too many pop ups ]

I imagine that the service provider ............ provided

Silk Road was trafficking in drugs, guns, hacking software, child pornography, and even murder-for-hire

A nasty site :/

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<quote user="myxt">
In case anyone did not read it, they are currently monitoring that site to see who visits.
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As is the case with all seized domains
Though the Fed's would be more interested in those who visit the .onion domain via Tor.

hXXp://onion.to/ is an open (non-anonymous) gateway: Tor2Web
example:

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https://duskgytldkxiuqc6.onion.to/fedpapers/federa00.htm

[Site-rater]

Good evidence for the need for WOT to support .onion domains.

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<quote user="bfeely">
Good evidence for the need for WOT to support .onion domains.
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It's not possible without the user having Tor installed, in which case all the requests go through Tor anyway.
&#8212; [url=https://www.mywot.com/forum/21468-feature-request-anonymous-wot-lookups-through-tor?comment=132652#comment-132652 t=_self]Sami[/url]

[Guest]

<quote user="bfeely">
Good evidence for the need for WOT to support .onion domains.
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I personally do not trust a site by proxy and I would rate in a negative such site, nor do I trust anyone who promotes criminal activities by using a proxy That is my opinion and I feel that most of the people, who use WOT feel that way


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