Operator of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, arrested yesterday by FBI agents in S

[Wandererfromthenorth]

I think it's unfair that the Amazon tribes get to trip balls on Ayahuasca erryday, they deserve to get busted too. I mean their tribe shaman is pretty much the local drug dealer, isn't it?

WTF is Ayahuasca?

It's like weed on steroids i've heard.

Actually it has been reported that Ayahuasca makes you quit weed and other potentially harmful drugs for life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8ZplWWVUyH8#t=401

Not sure about Ayahuasca, but Ibogaine is particularly known for that, especially for heroin addiction:


Random paper about it:
http://www.iceers.org/docs/science/iboga/Alper%20et%20al_1999_Acute_Opiate_Withdrawal.pdf

[nothing2seeHere]

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PS: SR (at least version 1) didn't even allow guns, hitman scams, or child porn ("loli"?).

Lol, but why?
If your argument "If drugs are not being sold safely peacefully online, they are sold in the streets with people robbing and killing each other" shows anything, it shows that all criminal activity should be allowed online, because less violence.

A budding neckbeard criminal should be able to purchase his throwaway .25 from the privacy and safety of his home mom's basement, instead of endangering himself and others by conducting business in the street

He should not be allowed to conduct such business either on the street or online. Law enforcement will go after "online" sites because they are a "big" target that can stop a large amount of criminal activity at one time

[darkmule]

He should not be allowed to conduct such business either on the street or online. Law enforcement will go after "online" sites because they are a "big" target that can stop a large amount of criminal activity at one time

Well, I disagree on that.  There is little to no purpose served by prohibition.

Additionally, they'll go after online sites because it looks sexy and gets headlines, and they can claim to have stopped a large amount of criminal activity, while actually having done absolutely nothing of any utility whatsoever.

It's barely even tinfoil to wonder if they're simply yet again favoring their preferred drug cartels in Mexico and South America.

[Tzupy]

This article may help understand how the Tor sites were compromised:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/silk-road-other-tor-darknet-sites-may-have-been-decloaked-through-ddos/

[nomadcrypto]

This article may help understand how the Tor sites were compromised:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/silk-road-other-tor-darknet-sites-may-have-been-decloaked-through-ddos/

Interesting read. I never fully trusted tor to begin with. Before that article tor like to say it was the safest for hidden services and not so much the end user because of the possibility of bad nodes. Now, assuming that the information in that article is correct, the hidden services aren't really safe either. If that is the case I think it may have outlived its usefulness.

[maker88]

I think it's unfair that the Amazon tribes get to trip balls on Ayahuasca erryday, they deserve to get busted too. I mean their tribe shaman is pretty much the local drug dealer, isn't it?

WTF is Ayahuasca?

It's like weed on steroids i've heard.

you heard wrong..

[Tzupy]

More information about the Tor issues:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/law-enforcement-seized-tor-nodes-and-may-have-run-some-of-its-own/

[ScreamnShout]

More information about the Tor issues:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/law-enforcement-seized-tor-nodes-and-may-have-run-some-of-its-own/

It looks like the short answer as to how so many tor/onion sites were taken down all at once is "we don't know"

I would say that the fact that sites like doxbin were taken down (and other non-illegal sites and various nodes) means that people who are trying to use tor for legit purposes (like journalists in North Korea or China) will be at much greater risk and will probably choose to not use tor in the first place