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Old 11-06-2014, 05:21 PM   #1
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Silk Road 2.0 Founder Arrested
Ok so now another one bites the dust...

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The FBI and Europol have conducted a joint operation to take down the internet?s thriving ?deep web? drug marketplaces.

The official FBI New York Twitter account just confirmed the seizure of Silk Road 2.0, saying that the site?s alleged operator, Blake Benthall, was arrested in San Francisco on Wednesday. He now potentially faces life in prison, the FBI says.

Benthall appears to be an employee of SpaceX, Elon Musk?s private rocket company. We?ve asked SpaceX for comment and will update this story when we hear back.

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

Silk Road 2.0 was taken offline exactly one year after it went live on Nov. 6, 2013. Visitors to the deep web drug marketplace have been met with an official police notice informing them of the site?s seizure.
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Old 11-06-2014, 05:51 PM   #2
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Just read that report. The amount of illegal activity and money flowing through the site was incredible. In the space of a year too.
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Old 11-06-2014, 05:52 PM   #3
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Just read that report. The amount of illegal activity and money flowing through the site was incredible. In the space of a year too.
Yeah, it's staggering especially when you consider that after Silk Road was originally taken down that half a dozen popular dark net drugs marketplaces opened up. No doubt extra attention will be paid to all the copy cats.
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I might need teencat to translate this for me. I don't think I'm reading it correctly.

silk road gets busted and some guy thinks he can get away with making a similar site and calling it silk road 2


It doesn't take a rocket scientist... oh, right.
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Old 11-06-2014, 06:00 PM   #5
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silk road gets busted and some guy thinks he can get away with making a similar site and calling it silk road 2
Worse, he called it Silk Road

It's the media and authorities calling it Silk Road 2.

Can't believe he worked at SpaceX.
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Old 11-06-2014, 06:03 PM   #6
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so who is starting up 3.0 ?
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Old 11-06-2014, 06:05 PM   #7
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so who is starting up 3.0 ?
The next Dread Pirate Roberts ?
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Just reading about him...did some stupid things. Server registered to his email name, $70k of Bitcoin towards the Tesla and an unencrypted computer.
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Old 11-06-2014, 06:21 PM   #10
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This is what amazed me:

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In the criminal complaint against Benthall, the FBI claims that investigators were part of the original conversation that took place during the launch phase of the site, and that they were granted moderator privileges on the drug marketplace’s forum.
He gave them (the FBI) moderator status on the drug market's forum.

His whole user / buyer / seller list was available to them unencrypted. That means there will be a lot of nervous drug buyers and sellers right about now.
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This is what amazed me:



He gave them (the FBI) moderator status on the drug market's forum.

His whole user / buyer / seller list was available to them unencrypted. That means there will be a lot of nervous drug buyers and sellers right about now.

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This is what amazed me:

He gave them (the FBI) moderator status on the drug market's forum.

His whole user / buyer / seller list was available to them unencrypted. That means there will be a lot of nervous drug buyers and sellers right about now.
if anything they only got bitcoin addresses... any other communication, including names, addresses, etc would normally be encrypted, and only the sellers would have the decryption key...

and that's if they had access to the whole site, it sounds like they only had mod access to the forum... it's kinda like getting mod status on gfy, what would that give you? it wouldn't give you much useful info at all...
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so who is starting up 3.0 ?
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if anything they only got bitcoin addresses... any other communication, including names, addresses, etc would normally be encrypted, and only the sellers would have the decryption key...
That`s not what a couple of the reports indicated. Full customer data was mentioned.
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Update to the story: He admitted it all.

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Blake Benthall, the man accused of running the deep web’s notorious illegal marketplace the Silk Road, reportedly confessed minutes after being arrested yesterday in San Francisco.

Ars Technica reported from Benthall’s first court hearing today, which lasted around 15 minutes. Federal prosecutor Kathryn Haun reportedly told the court that Benthall has already admitted to running the Silk Road.

“Mr. Benthall did admit to everything after receiving his Miranda rights — that he was the administrator of Silk Road 2.0,” Haun said to the court.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/th...ything-2014-11
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serious thought......BTC is gonna take one hell of a dive tonight///
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serious thought......BTC is gonna take one hell of a dive tonight///
This won't help either:

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1153871
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Wow,...this is just one case,...look for more to surface
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so who is starting up 3.0 ?
The FBI. Shutting down these sites and busting those involved makes some serious cash and publicity. Time for some new helicopters and replace those old MP-5s with Tavors.
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The bust was wider than Silk Road itself as more details come to light of which sites were targeted, how and why.

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On Thursday the FBI along with other law enforcement agencies including the Department of Homeland Security and Europol announced that it had seized the Silk Road 2, perhaps the most well-known drug market to appear on the Dark Web since the takedown of the original Silk Road last year. What it didn’t announce is that at least two other drug market sites have also been busted, and more takedowns are likely coming. The drug markets Hydra and Cloud 9 now both display the same “This Hidden Site Has Been Seized” notices as the Silk Road 2, emblazoned with the logos of the FBI and Europol. Several other popular dark net markets were down Thursday morning, as well, though they didn’t display that banner. An FBI spokesperson tells WIRED that there will be more than three market seizures in total, with the full extent of the operation set to be revealed by Friday.
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/dark-web-seizures/

and following that it looks like hundreds of sites were taken down

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In addition to the takedowns of drug markets Silk Road 2, Cloud 9 and Hydra revealed Thursday, it’s also busted contraband markets like Pandora, Blue Sky, Topix, Flugsvamp, Cannabis Road, and Black Market. Other takedown targets included money laundering sites like Cash Machine, Cash Flow, Golden Nugget and Fast Cash. And agents have taken from criminal suspects more than $1 million in bitcoin, $250,000 in cash, as well as an assortment of computers, drugs, gold, silver and weapons that they had yet to fully catalogue.
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/operati...rk-web-arrests
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He gave them (the FBI) moderator status on the drug market's forum.

His whole user / buyer / seller list was available to them unencrypted. That means there will be a lot of nervous drug buyers and sellers right about now.
They probably set him up real good, to make the bust bigger !
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