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Silk Road 2.0 and 400 other sites believed to be selling illegal items including drugs and weapons have been shut down. 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.
Although details of how the sites were identified are not given, it does suggest that software now exists that removes the veil that behind which the DarkNet once hid. Any Soylentils have any ideas of how this might be achieved? This story might be the clue.
More information can be found here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29950946
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday November 08 2014, @08:35PM
I have a feeling it's nothing as complicated as that. The Tor network is pretty secure, but browsers aren't if you don't know how to configure them, and there's always plain old social engineering and police infiltration work. The weak link in anything secure is the users, and you can often circumvent it altogether by fooling or conning them.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by cafebabe on Saturday November 08 2014, @08:56PM
I'd like to credit old-fashioned police detective work but I find it more likely that a panopticon of Zircon, Echelon, Prism and suchlike is sieved by central agencies before parallel construction [soylentnews.org] is done by local agencies.
Regarding infiltration, deny anyone who pushes for privileges. This approach also reduces technical problems.
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