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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by frank_boyd on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:32PM (#6511422)
> SR1 was shut down due to a forum post that was linked to an anonymous PHP question on Stack Overflow.

That's their public version of the story.

Thanks to Snowden, we know today that they use "parallel construction", so we may have no clue at all to what lengths they went and how many illegal tactics they used:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...

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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by CamperBob2 on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:00PM (#6511587)
This should be modded much higher than it is. What are the odds that someone thought to check Stack Overflow independently of any particular reason to do so?
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