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FBI has seized Deep Dot Web and arrested its administrators – TechCrunch
FBI has seized Deep Dot Web and arrested its administrators Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker / 2 days
The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces.
Two suspects were arrested in Tel Aviv and Ashdod, according to Israel’s Tel Aviv Police, which confirmed the arrests in a statement earlier in the day. Local media first reported the arrests.
Arrests were also made in France, Germany and the Netherlands. A source familiar with the operation said a site administrator was arrested in Brazil.
Deep Dot Web is said to have made millions of dollars in commission by offering referral links to dark web marketplaces, accessible only at .onion domains over the Tor Network. Tor bounces internet traffic through a series of random relay servers dotted across the world, making it near-impossible to trace the user.
Its .onion site displayed a seized notice by the FBI, citing U.S. money laundering laws. Its clear web domain no longer loads.
Feds Seize DeepDotWeb for Taking Money From Black Market Sites
foxnews.com/tech/feds-seize-deepdotweb-for-taking-money-from-black-market-sites
DeepDotWeb was a popular resource to find underground websites, which can often only be visited via the Tor browser. The site itself also indexed the top black market platforms. But on Tuesday, DeepDotWeb's main page was replaced with a notice claiming the FBI had seized the site.
[...] It's not illegal to post a link to a black market site, even though they deal in goods such as drugs, stolen data, and child pornography. However, DeepDotWeb may have done more than simply function as a resource to help visitors navigate the dark web. Allegedly, the owners received bitcoin from black market sites in exchange for publishing links to them. According to Israeli police, the owners of DeepDotWeb had been raking in millions through their "affiliate marketing" business.
[Ed. Note - 5/10/19 14:24 UTC - I updated this story to fix a bad merge of two unrelated stories. My apologies. - Fnord666]
(Score: 3, Touché) by janrinok on Friday May 10 2019, @01:24PM
Don't worry - you still get your karma, as will all the submitters of the relevant stories.
How on earth do you 'unmerge' submissions - I'm only asking as you appear to be an expert on the editing process? Do you mean cancel the story, and then reissue 2 more? How will that affect the karma for the 2 original submissions?
I suspect no community members were harmed in this accidental merge, so we can probably survive a few adverse comments for making a mistake. I will invite the appropriate editor to go stand in the corner for 5 minutes.