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 darkfeline on Saturday November 08 2014, @10:15PM
Nah, it's just selection bias. The only criminals that are discovered then arrested are stupid, hence they were discovered and arrested. The smart criminals are still plying their craft as usual (and I'm not making a dig at the politician-corporation complex, either).
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 09 2014, @06:25PM
Let me make the dig then:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Global#October_2011:_MF_Global_transfers_client_account_funds_to_its_own_account [wikipedia.org]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs [theguardian.com]
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-12/hsbc-mexican-branches-said-to-be-traffickers-favorites.html [bloomberg.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal [wikipedia.org]
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106 [rollingstone.com]
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-23/fed-s-once-secret-data-compiled-by-bloomberg-released-to-public.html [bloomberg.com]
That's how the real pros steal or swindle loads of money and get away with it.