Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store

Fluffeh writes "Federal authorities have arrested eight men accused of distributing more than $1 million worth of LSD, ecstasy, and other narcotics with an online storefront called 'The Farmer's Market' that used the Tor anonymity service to mask their Internet addresses. Prosecutors said in a press release that the charges were the result of a two-year investigation led by agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Los Angeles field division. 'Operation Adam Bomb, ' as the investigation was dubbed, also involved law enforcement agents from several U.S. states and several countries, including Colombia, the Netherlands, and Scotland. The arrests come about a year after Gawker documented the existence of Silk Road, an online narcotics storefront that was available only to Tor users. The site sold LSD, Afghani hashish, tar heroin and other controlled substances and allowed customers to pay using the virtual currency known as Bitcoin."

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Re:Headline = Misleading

[Nidi62]

Where does the headline say they shut down Tor? THe only way you could come to that conclusion with this headline is by reading that the Feds used a narcotics store to shut down the Tor network. Otherwise it clearly reads that the feds shut down a narcotics store that uses Tor. This is more a case of bad reading comprehension than poor editing.