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Re:AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down by zitterbewegung on Thursday July 20, 2017 @03:41PM (#14815641)
Dread Pirate Roberts was brought down by OPSEC using basic investigation skills (correlations between one online profile and his website from stackexchange and a security flaw on his hidden service website). I think its probably just good investigating this time.

See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/how-the-feds-too... for more information about dread pirate Roberts.

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Re:AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down by AlphaWeaver on Thursday July 20, 2017 @05:16PM (#14816360)
The WIRED story about the fall of DPR, although I don't have it currently, spins the story as a two part epic- really good read.
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