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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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @04:49PM
True but how are the admins making money? Bitcoins? Even if so bitcoins can be traced to some extent. At some point those bitcoins need to eventually be turned into real money or property or something valuable and they can trace that.
and who's paying the admins their money? Advertisers? They can trace who advertisers are sending money to and investigate from there.
Do the users or sellers pay the admins a fee? How is that money being paid? They can trace that. Even if it's through bitcoins they can trace who's exchanging bitcoins for bank funds or cash (if you are exchanging bitcoins directly for cash then who's giving you the cash? A fed? Someone working or being subpenaed by the feds?). It's not like you can buy a house with bitcoins and no one will notice. The feds will notice if you suddenly have a nice house in your name with no job. How are you paying for this? Bitcoins? Where are you getting these bitcoins and what are you doing to get them?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 10 2014, @04:54PM
and if the sellers pay an admin fee the feds can set themselves up as a seller and try to trace where the funds are going. They can send themselves a package, pay for it, and continue their investigation from there.