Silk Road 2 being taken down, Irish Arrests

Inquitus

Apparently someone in Wicklow arrested by Gardai this morning.

http://www.deepdotweb.com/2013/12/20/silk-road-administrator-inigo-busted/

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/20/alleged-top-moderator-of-silk-road-2-forums-arrested-in-ireland/

The Diabolical Monocle

Flushes kilo

bumper234

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

Flushes kilo

Pffffff small time amateur

kneemos

Aw.Poor junkies.

Dwaegon

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/20/21990649-three-more-arrested-in-silk-road-online-drug-market-case


Yup, they were indicted in the US as per the above link. Wonder will the Irish fella get extradited to the US?

AndonHandon

Dwaegon wrote: »

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/20/21990649-three-more-arrested-in-silk-road-online-drug-market-case


Yup, they were indicted in the US as per the above link. Wonder will the Irish fella get extradited to the US?

It's unlikely. Irish courts are extremely reluctant to allow extradition applications. Particularly when it involves an Irish citizen.

NuckingFacker

So it's not all smooth as silk so? This is just frontier stuff in a new world, the wild west of the internet. Eventually the mainstream will control, regulate and alter onionworld sites. They can't afford to ignore them anyway, the people must be regulated - how dare they create a sneaky free for all. Can't be having that now.

Me?

what is silk road? I know i could google it but i am lazy today?

MonstaMash

^

The_Valeyard

Not surprised by this, Silk Road became to well known and a media play thing.
Im sure others will pop up in its place.

EDDIE WATERS

Me? wrote: »

what is silk road? I know i could google it but i am lazy today?

The gist of it was that you could buy drugs guns and other illegal things.It is on the deep web.You need Tor to access it

Me?

Thanks MonstaMash. I had no idea.

MonstaMash

There are alternatives to Silk Road out there...Black Market Reloaded, RAMP, an acronym for the Russian Anonymous Marketplace, Sheep Marketplace, Brainmagic & Deepbay to name but a few.

Amirani

MonstaMash wrote: »

There are alternatives to Silk Road out there...Black Market Reloaded, RAMP, an acronym for the Russian Anonymous Marketplace, Sheep Marketplace, Brainmagic & Deepbay to name but a few.

It's similar to how The Pirate Bay is consistently used as a synonym for the whole file-sharing concept, despite the fact that it's clearly not.

19543261

Everyone will quickly move on in a matter of weeks, new sites and means will be set up, etc., etc.

Phoebas

19543261 wrote: »

Everyone will quickly move on in a matter of weeks, new sites and means will be set up, etc., etc.

When sites are being shut down and people arrested it does undermine the whole anonymity aspect of the dark web. I don't think its a simple matter of one site goes down and another one popping up and things continuing on as they were.

My name is URL

Phoebas wrote: »

When sites are being shut down and people arrested it does undermine the whole anonymity aspect of the dark web. I don't think its a simple matter of one site goes down and another one popping up and things continuing on as they were.

The owner of the site undermined his own 'anonymity' by posting details about himself on the clear web, nobody undermined it for him!

He signed up to various sites using the name 'altoid'.. linking to the onion site for SR, and asking people what they thought of it (obviously pimping the site)

He then signed up with the same 'altoid' name to a bitcoin community, advertising that he wanted to hire an IT professional. In doing so he provided his gmail address, “rossulbricht at gmail dot com”

It wasn't some genius detective work by the FBI that led to site been shut down and the guys arrest, it was his own profound carelessness, and TOR can't protect against peoples stupidity.

Phoebas

My name is URL wrote: »

The owner of the site undermined his own 'anonymity' by posting details about himself on the clear web, nobody undermined it for him!

He signed up to various sites using the name 'altoid'.. linking to the onion site for SR, and asking people what they thought of it (obviously pimping the site)

He then signed up with the same 'altoid' name to a bitcoin community, advertising that he wanted to hire an IT professional. In doing so he provided his gmail address, “rossulbricht at gmail dot com”

It wasn't some genius detective work by the FBI that led to site been shut down and the guys arrest, it was his own profound carelessness, and TOR can't protect against peoples stupidity.

I'm wasn't suggesting that the security of TOR was breached.
I'm just suggesting that people using sites like (those on) silk road require a fair bit of trust to transact there so it'll take time to re-establish the trust when the replacement pops up.

The fact that the FBI can make arrests does underline the fact that the technical infrastructure of TOR and bitcoins are just parts of the chain that has other weaker links.

Archeron

I googled onion world and found it to be the home of Kelly and Maureen walshes walla walla sweet onion sausage.

I don't understand the Internet any more...


I'm old.....and scared...

19543261

Phoebas wrote: »

When sites are being shut down and people arrested it does undermine the whole anonymity aspect of the dark web. I don't think its a simple matter of one site goes down and another one popping up and things continuing on as they were.

No, of course, you're right. There will be serious implications for many people, but the long term significance - as the general public may see it - is comparatively inconsequencial, I would have thought.

renegademaster

AndonHandon wrote: »

It's unlikely. Irish courts are extremely reluctant to allow extradition applications. Particularly when it involves an Irish citizen.

I wouldn't be holding my breath

wil

This is not at all new, read Dark Market. This is just Dark Market v6.3 rc2 with added Bitcoin and even richer pickings.

Slightly misleading title. Silk Road was indeed shut down by the FBI and the own arrested.

Since then Silk Road 2.0 has appeared but with a new creator, although he uses the same psuedonym, DPR or dread pirate Roberts as the original Silk Road creator.

Silk Road 2.0 has not been taken down and the creator has insisted the site has not been compromised.

The two arrested were moderators on both the original Silk Road and the new 2.0, and reading the analys these arrests are the fallout of information stored in the laptop of the arrested original silk road creators laptop when bust a few months back. Apparently he required and stored personal detail of each moderator.

There is also the possibility that this new creator of Silk Road 2.0 is indeed a FBI/LEA agent and it was all an elaborate scheme to get the moderators and people at the top.

Mammanabammana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHZGqBVBCRw