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Silk Road 2 seized. Irish arrest.

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  • 06-11-2014 6:16pm
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    Khannie
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    The official FBI New York Twitter account just confirmed the seizure of deep web drug marketplace the Silk Road, claiming that the site's operator Blake Benthall, was arrested in San Francisco.

    There are also reports that police have arrested a major online drug dealer in Ireland, as part of what is being called Operation Onymous.

    Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-silk-road-seized-arrests-2014-11

    The details on this one should be interesting.


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    dalta5billion
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    First seizure of Bitcoin in Ireland?


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    Khannie
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    dalta5billion wrote: »
    First seizure of Bitcoin in Ireland?

    Good chance I'd say. That's assuming they have access to the wallet.


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    dalta5billion
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    Khannie wrote: »
    Good chance I'd say. That's assuming they have access to the wallet.

    The Examiner seems to suggest there was encryption but they caught them with it turned on.


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    Khannie
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    Haven't had a chance to read much today. Is there any word on how they managed to get them?


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    Harold Finchs Machine
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    Khannie wrote: »
    Haven't had a chance to read much today. Is there any word on how they managed to get them?
    arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/silk-road-2-0-infiltrated-from-the-start-sold-8m-per-month-in-drugs/

    Badly set up from the beginning...and all the way through.


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    Harold Finchs Machine
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    Replacement for Tor and eventually Ebay, alibaba, Tmart and the rest of 'em.

    No server somewhere to NSA in to, decentralised P2P with a Tor option. Good luck shutting this down.

    dailydot.com/politics/openbazaar-is-next-after-silk-road-2-falls/


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    Khannie
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    Still looks like nobody has a definitive answer on how this happened. I guess that's what the people doing the takedowns want - doubt.


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    In dept Silk Road 2.0 timeline. Looks like mostly old fashion police work once again.

    http://antilop.cc/sr/#sr2timeline
    06/04/2014 - HSI-UC observes Defcon login to the Silk Road customer support interface using specific version of Google Chrome web browser and OS X (Records provided by Exchanger-1 show Benthall logging into Bitcoin Account-1 using the same Chrome and OS X versions). NY

    07/04/2014 - Defcon announces that he upgraded Bitcoin infrastructure. F
    22/04/2014 - Defcon accesses account invoices for SRv2 server at hosting provider from Las Vegas Hotel ("Hotel-2"). Based on hotel records, Benthall was a guest at "Hotel-2" and used Email blake@benthall.net to register.
    XX/05/2014 - The FBI identifies a server they believe to be hosting Silk Road 2.0.
    30/05/2014 - IP logs obtained from Google for Benthall Email Account-1 indicate that the user logged into the account from IP Address.
    10/06/2014 - Benthall sends support request to hosting provider from IP address ending in ".6" (IP Address-2) which belonged to an hotel in South Lake Tahoe, California ("Hotel-1"). NY
    10/06/2014 - Review of Benthall Email account-1 showed he was a guest at Hotel-1.


    05/11/2014 - Benthall's apartment is raided by the FBI. Law enforcements found $100,000 cash in the apartment and an unencrypted PC. :pac:


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    Harold Finchs Machine
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    Khannie wrote: »
    Still looks like nobody has a definitive answer on how this happened. I guess that's what the people doing the takedowns want - doubt.

    What was missing from link above?


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