Silk Road 2.0 is taken down along with other websites

[Futility Personified]

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/07/six-britons-arrested-silk-road-dark-web-takedown-online-drugs

After reading about how much street drugs are now largely composed of legal highs, one can't help but read this and think "oh for fuck's sake".

Is the libertarian dream of some impenetrable cyberspace now proven to be hogwash against the power of the state(s)?

[hexaune]

This happened a while back and there are still plenty of market places up and running.

They managed to takedown SR2.0 as they had an undercover they managed to infiltrate right at the start of the project.

There is always a massive PR push by the pigs to make people think they are all seeing and in control of the dark web, yet they have taken down such a tiny proportion of vendors with either the SR1 or SR2 busts that its a sound way to operate (assuming careful use of PGP and bitcoin tumbling and general opsec) imo and hence why there are more vendors online than ever!

The genie is out of the bottle with this form of drug dealing, by taking down SR1 they gave the concept a load of publicity and room for new market places to gain followings and the scene is healthier than ever.

[Q]

Now Silk Road ("3.0" I suppose) has moved to I2P (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P) as opposed to Tor as reported on Vice (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/silk-road-reloaded-i2p).