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AchillesHeel
10-09-2013, 08:02 AM
For those, who don't know, Silk Road was the biggest online market for drugs and other illegal shit, it was basically a website connected through a client, which was untraceable by the feds or anyone else, as it encrypted your data upon connection. About a total of 1.2 billion USD went through that site in trafficking, you could buy guns, child porn and whatever a while ago, but the owner just recently slipped up:

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/everything-the-silk-road-founder-did-to-get-caught


The rise and fall of Silk Road (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-silk-road-is-shut-down-and-the-owner-is-in-custody) is the stuff of cinema. You've got the deep web, a hidden Tor (http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/tor-says-its-as-secure-as-ever-despite-the-silk-road-bust)website, illegal drugs, happy customers, some not-so-happy dealers, assassins, forged documents, the Dread Pirate Roberts alias, and, of course, a great unraveling triggered by a number of small, amateur mistakes exploited by a methodical FBI investigation.
All of this has me wondering how a Silk Road successor might try to avoid Ross William Ulbricht's (AKA, Dread Pirate Robert's) fate. Since I'm no expert in secret crime rings, I figured we should look at every trail Ulbricht left behind. All of this derived from the FBI's sealed complaint (http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf) against Ulbricht and Silk Road. Of course, one should also read that document for full details on Ulbricht's capture.
boutons_deux
10-09-2013, 09:33 AM
If only the CIA/NSA/FBI would track down tax evasion by the 1%, Wall St, corporations as aggressively as they go after the 99%.
boutons_deux
10-09-2013, 09:41 AM
Law enforcement hunt Silk Road sellers (http://www.itnews.com/criminal/68342/law-enforcement-hunt-silk-road-sellers)


Arrests stemming from the takedown of the Silk Road tells sellers on illicit marketplaces in the hidden Web are not safe from the law

The National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom arrested Tuesday four men suspected of selling illegal drugs on Silk Road, which U.S. law enforcement shut down last week with the capture of the alleged owner and operator, Ross William Ulbricht, in San Francisco.

The latest arrests included three men in their early 20s and one in his 50s, all suspected of being sellers on Silk Road, which was one of the world's largest online marketplaces for illegal drugs, the BBC reported. The NCA said more arrests were expected in the coming weeks.

http://www.itnews.com/criminal/68342/law-enforcement-hunt-silk-road-sellers?source=ITNEWSNLE_nlt_itndaily_2013-10-09#sthash.mXxP667K.dpuf
AchillesHeel
10-09-2013, 09:44 AM
Buyers have nothing to worry about, but sellers are most likely fucked.
boutons_deux
10-09-2013, 09:52 AM
Buyers have nothing to worry about, but sellers are most likely fucked.

if y'all bought child porn, you have plenty to be worried about
Spur|n|Austin
10-09-2013, 09:56 AM
if y'all bought child porn, you have plenty to be worried about

Adios Avante.
AchillesHeel
10-09-2013, 09:59 AM
if y'all bought child porn, you have plenty to be worried about

Well, I meant drugs and other stuff, feds are looking for suppliers, not customers.
Proxy
10-09-2013, 11:44 AM
Looking on the other side of this, Silk Road was a safe way for people to get their drugs at high quality while the bitcoin system kept it out of reach of most minors. FBI takes that away and all these people go back to the street... Is that a victory?
2pac > Kobe
10-09-2013, 02:11 PM
Looking on the other side of this, Silk Road was a safe way for people to get their drugs at high quality while the bitcoin system kept it out of reach of most minors. FBI takes that away and all these people go back to the street... Is that a victory?
yes
SA210
10-09-2013, 02:22 PM
Many cancer patients used Silk Road for cannabis..for treatment of their illness.
HarlemHeat37
10-09-2013, 02:33 PM
:lol 30% of the members on Silk Road were located in the US, IIRC..that's a lot of White, suburban geeks that are going to be incarcerated with the general population, mostly hood niggas and cholos, tbh:lol..most of those Internet dealers have no concept of street crime/street life, they're going to have quite the time in prison, tbh..