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Huge Raid to Shut Down 400-plus DarkNet Sites

posted by janrinok on Saturday November 08 2014, @07:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-as-dark-as-we-thought dept.

elf writes:

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 09 2014, @03:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 09 2014, @03:35AM (#114188)

    Maybe we should all just create a massively fun game where we sell and send plastic bags of "weed" and "coke" you can buy from the grocery store,

    Bad idea. Selling obviously fake drugs under the impression that they're real will get you convicted for trafficking. Thats not a new thing either, its been happening for decades. Although on the plus side, this "game" would force more people to realize how destructive prohibition is by ruining even more innocent lives.

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