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 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.