Earlier today , we memorise that The Silk Road 2.0 has a new , fed - mould landing page ; but the FBI is n’t just stop at strike one illegal on-line drug market : it looks like it ’s taking down everything it can get its hands on .
Other democratic drug markets have also been targeted , with Cloud9 , Hydra , and the Cannabis Road meeting place seized so far . That might not be the end of it , either : according toWired , the FBI has seized “ more than three ” markets , and will be revealing its full collection of scalps on Friday morning .
It ’s indecipherable at this level exactly how the FBI managed to seize so many market simultaneously : whilst Silk Road 2.0 seems to have been rent down by a combination of undercover agent and basic error by the administrators , it ’s not clear yet how Cloud9 and Hydra ( and any other markets that mysteriously disappear overnight ) have been prehend . Someoneposting as Cloud9 ’s admin on Reddit ’s Dark Net Markets subredditsays that just one Cloud9 waiter was seized ( and , presumptively , not them with it ) , so it does n’t seem that the feds have uncover some implicit in weakness in TOR or Bitcoin , which are the only engineering that link the various sites .
Either way of life , this coordinated takedown of several pop sites at once is fairly clear trial impression that the FBI ( and its international partners ) is slowly but surely winning the warfare against underground online drug markets . Silk Road and the like all rely ( to an extent ) on reciprocal corporate trust and reputation , plus a comprehend low level of risk . If the FBI is systematically taking sites offline before they ’ve had a while to thrive , it will be much harder for buyers and sellers to believe each other — not to mention the obvious dangers of getting lock up . [ Reddit , Wired , FBI ]
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