The Many Headed Hydra of Dark Web Marketplaces
I wasn’t surprised today when I read that Silk Road 2.0, a Tor anonymized dark website on the onion network was seized and shut down by the Feds. The site, at its peak, was moving $8 million dollars a day in drugs and related ephemera. According to a press release from the FBI, 400 “dark market” sites dealing in illegal goods and services including counterfeit currency, stolen credit cards, drugs and weapons were shut down. When...
