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Feds Shutter Illegal Drug Marketplace Silk Road 2.0

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11/06/2014 @ 1:40PM

Feds Shutter Illegal Drug Marketplace Silk Road 2.0, Arrest 26-Year-Old San Francisco Programmer

By Ryan Mac, Kate Vinton and Kashmir Hill

Another year, another dark web takedown.
A year ago, the FBI shut down Silk Road, an anonymous online narcotics website that generated $1.2 billion in sales, and arrested its alleged creator Ross Ulbricht in a San Francisco library. On Thursday, the FBI announced that it has done it again, seizing Silk Road successor Silk Road 2.0 and detaining 26-year-old Blake Benthall in the same city. Silk Road 2.0′s seizure comes amid reports of various other anonymous narcotics marketplace shutdowns on Thursday as global authorities look to be cracking down on illegal dark web operations.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place

 

Dumb arrssee should be running this from some place other than San Francisco or US.

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7 November 2014 Last updated at 11:37 GMT

Huge raid to shut down 400-plus dark net sites
By Jane Wakefield
Technology reporter
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, including Blake Benthall who is said to be behind Silk Road 2.0.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place

 

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ANDY GREENBERG 05.29.15 4:03 PM
SILK ROAD CREATOR ROSS ULBRICHT SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON
ROSS ULBRICHT CONCEIVED of his Silk Road black market as an online utopia beyond law enforcement’s reach. Now he’ll spend the rest of his life firmly in its grasp, locked inside a federal penitentiary.
On Friday Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in creating and running Silk Road’s billion-dollar, anonymous black market for drugs. Judge Katherine Forrest gave Ulbricht the most severe sentence possible, beyond what even the prosecution had explicitly requested. The minimum Ulbricht could have served was 20 years.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place

 

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