Tracking the Mole Inside Silk Road 2.0

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Tracking the Mole Inside Silk Road 2.0

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 12, 2014 @05:21AM from the doomed-from-day-one dept.

derekmead writes: The arrest of the Silk Road 2.0 leader and subsequent seizure of the site was partially due to the presence of an undercover U.S. Department of Homeland Security agent, who "successfully infiltrated the support staff involved in running the Silk Road 2.0 website," according to the FBI.

Referencing multiple interviews, publicly available information, and parts of the moderator forum shared with me, it appears likely that the suspicions of many involved in Silk Road 2.0 are true: the undercover agent that infiltrated the site was a relatively quiet staff member known as Cirrus.

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Cirrusly? by turkeydance · 2014-12-12 05:24 · Score: 2, Funny

whose relative?
blow their minds by slashmydots · 2014-12-12 05:31 · Score: 4, Funny

If I ran a secret tor service site thing, I'd had 5 moderators and 1 administrator and they'd all be me just to mess with people's heads. That would prevent moles.
1. Re:blow their minds by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-12 05:39 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  until one of your psyche's turned on you.
2. Re:blow their minds by ultranova · 2014-12-12 05:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  If I ran a secret tor service site thing, I'd had 5 moderators and 1 administrator and they'd all be me just to mess with people's heads. That would prevent moles.
  
  If I ran a secret tor site, I wouldn't publicly post my security practices, especially on a non-Tor site that doesn't even use SSL. That's the most important security...
  Oh, crap.
  
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3. Re:blow their minds by jythie · 2014-12-12 06:18 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Question is, can you do 6 times the work, or just hexth ass all the jobs?
Lucky grab by kamapuaa · 2014-12-12 05:33 · Score: 5, Funny

According to the FBI complaint against Benthall, he registered the black market bazaar's servers with the email address blake@benthall.net.
Lucky they had a mole on this inside, or they never could've taken down that criminal mastermind.

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Re:Seeing this information so widely disseminated by CaptainDork · 2014-12-12 05:41 · Score: 4, Funny

Seeing this just serves to remind me that criminals are dumb.

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No, it wasn't Cirrus... by Sowelu · 2014-12-12 06:19 · Score: 4, Funny

...it was his brother, Achenar. He's demented, he is guilty!
Re:Seeing this information so widely disseminated by marcello_dl · 2014-12-12 06:34 · Score: 5, Funny

> criminals are dumb
Indeed, They put faith in Cirrus after all the warnings about not trusting the Cloud.

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