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

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) by deimios on Sunday November 09 2014, @04:47AM

    by deimios (201) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 09 2014, @04:47AM (#114194) Journal

    OK I'll bite.

    You state that Google is untouchable. It's not that it's untouchable, more like it can move MASSIVE amounts of people if need be. No politician wants to appear on the front page of a shut down youtube as the cause.

    Regarding the rest of the scumbags and legal grey-area exploiters: campaign funds don't come for free you know. Unless the whole system is overhauled, you will never ever see those guys in jail, even in countries where bribes are illegal.

    But dealing with drugdealers (ok this one is starting to slip because of legalization in some parts), sites depicting child abuse (think of the children) and copyright stealing pirates (these directly influence the income of the MAFIAA and the amount of campaign funds they can funnel) is considered a politically safe and pretty straightforward activity.

  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday November 10 2014, @04:05PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday November 10 2014, @04:05PM (#114527) Journal

    It's a bit of both actually. It's not just that politicians don't want to be on the news -- there really does seem to be this unwritten rule that white guys in suits don't just get arrested, even when there's no political agenda involved.

    Check this out:
    http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/i-got-myself-arrested-so-i-could-look-inside-the-justice-system/282360/ [theatlantic.com]

    Guy wanders around NYC with cans of spraypaint and a stencil reading “N.Y.P.D. Get Your Hands Off Me” -- that alone is illegal, he walks by dozens of officers and most say nothing, a few notice but don't even give him a warning. So he steps it up -- actually uses them to vandalize city hall. With the police watching. None of them do anything. Then after seeing a news report about the crime the next day, saying it was committed by "unknown suspects" (despite him doing this in broad daylight, on camera, with officers watching him) he goes to turn himself in. Walks up to the cops, hands them his ID, tells them what he did...and they tell him to go home. He spent weeks trying to turn himself in, every day, and every day he got told to go home because nobody arrests the white guy in a suit.