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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday November 10 2014, @04:05PM
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.