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
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Saturday November 08 2014, @09:28PM
It's the same theory as the one behind why DRM will never work. If your computer can find it, my computer can find it.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday November 15 2014, @01:12PM
If a service is made available to untrusted parties via indirection and the indirection relies upon volunteers who cannot be trusted and establishment of connections is logged by untrusted parties then the service can be located without indirection by one or more parties.
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