Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store

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Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @12:08AM from the conspiracy-and-subterfuge dept.

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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Finally by royallthefourth · 2012-04-17 00:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Someone's finally found a good reason to use bitcoin
Perfectly clear by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-17 00:16 · Score: 4, Funny

Obviously, the feds used a narcotics store to shut down Tor.
I mis read it anyway.... by trancemission · 2012-04-17 00:22 · Score: 5, Funny

I first read it as:

Feds Shut Down For Using Narcotics Store.
Hooray I thought.

I should lay off the Narcotics......
Re:Headline = Misleading by sheehaje · 2012-04-17 00:36 · Score: 4, Funny

You should be ashamed... Because I really was wondering how using a narcotics store could shut down Tor.
They're not drug dealers, they're job creators by jholyhead · 2012-04-17 00:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Just another example of the job killing regulations enacted by the Obama administration. When will the federal government get out of the way of small business owners and job creators?
Re:Headline = Misleading by nozzo · 2012-04-17 00:50 · Score: 5, Funny

wow all this posting over a missing hyphen. If only we could turn our energetic posting into solving cold-fusion then the world would be a happier place. Come to think of it we can skip the cold-fusion and just use the hot air on this forum. Don't mark me Troll - I'm a nice person!
Re:Hyphen! by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-04-17 00:56 · Score: 5, Funny

This is what hyphens are for.
You mean they could have shut down Tor using hyphens?

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Ezekiel 23:20
Re:Headline = Misleading by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-17 01:12 · Score: 5, Funny

>> Tor-Using Narcotics Store
I tried Tor once. That shit will fuck you up. One hit and I was running around the parking lot naked, dueling with gnomes (or the Pasadena Police Dept, depending on what astral plane you were on at the time).
Re:Hyphen! by M.+Baranczak · 2012-04-17 01:30 · Score: 5, Funny

You mean they could have shut down Tor using hyphens?
No. That particular vulnerability was fixed a long time ago.