Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains

Re:Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark ... by kissickas on Friday November 07, 2014 @08:44AM (#8572428)

I sincerely hope this was done not through Tor backdoors but through traditional police techniques. It would be a great piece of evidence in support of anonymity if they were able to do all of this without finding/creating exploits.

Hopefully we'll eventually know the truth.

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Re:Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark ... by EStudley on Friday November 07, 2014 @08:59AM (#8572490)

I've heard reports that Feds were actually moderators of SR2 from the very start. So from the beginning they were actively building a case against the other owners.

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Re:Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark ... by xorcist on Friday November 07, 2014 @03:09PM (#8574416)

If your job is to catch drug dealers on the Internet, I would expect you to be undercover on all these sites.

You could either hire lots and lots of cryptographers and hope for a theoretical breakthrough, or you could hire police officers and let them work undercover.

It's the reasonable thing to do.

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