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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 08 2014, @09:47PM
Tor hidden service connections as far as TCP go are outgoing from both the user and the server. They meet somewhere in the middle of the Tor network. This makes clients and servers pretty similar from a traffic perspective.