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After Silk Road 2.0 Shutdown, Rival Dark Net Markets Grow Quickly

apexcp writes: A week ago, Silk Road 2.0 was theatrically shut down by a global cadre of law enforcement. This week, the dark net is realigning. "In the wake of the latest police action against online bazaars, the anonymous black market known as Evolution is now the biggest Dark Net market of all time. Today, Evolution features 20,221 products for sale, a 28.8 percent increase from just one month ago and an enormous 300 percent increase over the past six months."

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  1. No kidding by NotDrWho · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In other news, police arrest drug dealer on corner. New drug dealer replaces him that same night.

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    SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
  2. Re:Hire the Russians hackers to prevent police act by ComputerGeek01 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All right, maybe they aren't Russian, I don't know. But why not try to find these uber-coders that you always hear about to do some pen testing of the Tor code? It's in their best interest to make sure Tor is as secure as possible.

    What are you talking about? The only thing Tor does is add layers of indirection between the client and host, the data still needs to eventually be able to find a viable route between A and B. When a large percentage of connections using the TOR protocol end up at the same hand full of places, which is something that you can determine when you have access to a Tier 1 service providers records btw, then it helps narrow down the number of suspects you need to investigate. The only way to remain secure in that world is to remain small.