SilkRoad 2 Taken down by Feds

[inBitweTrust]

Obviously not educated enough to cover his tracks.
He may be book smart, but never street smart as where is your boy now? ...behind bars.

Your comment is both bias and untutored.

The combined efforts of multiple investigators, the FBI/CIA, and a years worth of effort is enough to catch any suspect. I wonder how many millions were spent of taxpayers dollars to carry out this en devour?

You are foolish to think that anyone could go uncaught with this much scrutiny.

Decentralized marketplaces only increase the costs of these investigations high enough to make them impractical. Enough effort and investigative work is sufficient to uncover any suspect.

[Kimowa]

According to the complaint, the FBI was able to identify Benthall as Silk Road 2.0's operator partially due to IP logs given to them by Google, with which Benthall had a Gmail address.

Always seems to be silly mistakes that get them taken down.

Silly mistakes? This is exactly how Ross was caught. You would think that he wouldn't make the exact same mistake.....He used an email address that was blake@benthall.com to sign up for the hosting of the servers of SR2.

IMO that is not a mistake, that is asking to get caught

[Velkro]

Just read many pages about silkroad 2 take down. Owner of SR2 made so many mistakes thats insane.
FBI got like literally 20 proof's of his guilt.

[thew3apon]

Obviously not educated enough to cover his tracks.
He may be book smart, but never street smart as where is your boy now? ...behind bars.

Your comment is both bias and untutored.

The combined efforts of multiple investigators, the FBI/CIA, and a years worth of effort is enough to catch any suspect. I wonder how many millions were spent of taxpayers dollars to carry out this en devour?

You are foolish to think that anyone could go uncaught with this much scrutiny.

Decentralized marketplaces only increase the costs of these investigations high enough to make them impractical. Enough effort and investigative work is sufficient to uncover any suspect.

You are telling me it is impossible to forever evade authorities?
I hope you are trolling right now.

Moral of the story is, know when to get in, know when to get out.
The guy had immense book smarts, but no street smarts...not to mention, he could not think out of the intellectual box.

You will learn in due time.

I would say it would probably depend on your definition of "evade". Someone could easily live in a country that is not friendly to the US (like snowden does in Russia) to avoid being arrested.

The problem with this is that it will result in your having a much worse standard of living then you otherwise should have.

[polynesia]

I guess SilkRoad 3 will be up and running soon. 

[bitkilo]

Just had a look, it's down alright. I did have my suspicions when it went down a couple of days ago that something might happen.
It's a shame because Defcon looked like one of the better darkweb operators, he did pay back most if not all the money that was lost in the "hack".
Good luck Defcon your going to need it. I just hope you didn't do something real stupid like DPR and try hire a hitman.

[IBGigglin]

That's at least a good lol

[BayAreaCoins]

Always SF

I think this hurts the ecomony. 

BTC to $100.

[bitkilo]

It won't affect the price like last time, there is heaps of other darkweb sites now and the price has actually jumped about $20 since yesterday when SR2 was still operating.

[hongw]

It won't affect the price like last time, there is heaps of other darkweb sites now and the price has actually jumped about $20 since yesterday when SR2 was still operating.

The owner of SR2 was actually arrested over a week ago and the site itself has likely been a honeypot for at least 6 weeks now.

[bitkilo]

It won't affect the price like last time, there is heaps of other darkweb sites now and the price has actually jumped about $20 since yesterday when SR2 was still operating.

The owner of SR2 was actually arrested over a week ago and the site itself has likely been a honeypot for at least 6 weeks now.

Thanks, nice to know 

[CoolRunnings21]

This kid fucked up everywhere possible.

This is why you dont mess with the DNM.

This kid uses his name email and opens a server for a illegal marketplace.

He also logged in under Defcon without using Tor WTF.

People need to learn bitcoins arent anon as you think and htis guy is about to do life in prison.

Think about that, this kid is going to do LIFE for this, FUCKING LIFE.

Under 1 year ownership, hope it was worth it.

[microchoveur]

This kid fucked up everywhere possible.

This is why you dont mess with the DNM.

This kid uses his name email and opens a server for a illegal marketplace.

He also logged in under Defcon without using Tor WTF.

People need to learn bitcoins arent anon as you think and htis guy is about to do life in prison.

Think about that, this kid is going to do LIFE for this, FUCKING LIFE.

Under 1 year ownership, hope it was worth it.

And sometimes i'm being paranoïd coz i'm walking in the street with 1 gram of weed xD
There really are some unconscious guys, it's beyond the deepest stupidity…

[AGD]

The FBI had informers among the SR2 staff even before the site was opened to the masses. Means, SR2 was operating as a honeypot from the start.

from http://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/11/06/official-silk-road-2-0-admin-charged-manhattan-federal-court/ :

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: “As alleged, Blake Benthall attempted to resurrect Silk Road, a secret website that law enforcement seized last year, by running Silk Road 2.0, a nearly identical criminal enterprise. Let’s be clear—this Silk Road, in whatever form, is the road to prison. Those looking to follow in the footsteps of alleged cybercriminals should understand that we will return as many times as necessary to shut down noxious online criminal bazaars. We don’t get tired.

[hilariousandco]

Just read many pages about silkroad 2 take down. Owner of SR2 made so many mistakes thats insane.
FBI got like literally 20 proof's of his guilt.

What are the twenty ways he fucked up / pieces of evidence against him?

[AGD]

- He was using his real name to rent a server to operate SR2.
- He was also using an email adress that was connected to several real name accounts  (Facebook/Twitter etc)
- He didn't use Tor at some occasions, revealing his real home ips.
- He operated SR2 when he was travelling under his real name in Hotels with unsecure connections.
- He contacted support staff from the rented server, when the server had some downtime (due to the FBI mirroring the server at that moment) with ips that were tracable.
- He worked with the old admins of SR1, which was most likely infiltrated
- He traded his wealth on a trading site, using his real name /email adress
- He was using the same email adress for his Facebook/Twitter whatsoever accounts
- Infiltrated admins of SR2 were able to see his real ips, when he logged in to SR2
- His online behaviour fit perfectly to his movements in real life.

Not 20 yet, but I'll keep digging ...

[caaarly]

That has nothing to do with btc price this is not 2011 man, its almost 2015 , BTC economy is so much bigger and those deep web sites are not even 1% of the whole BTC economy.

[cbeast]

Always SF

I think this hurts the ecomony. 

BTC to $100.

This hurts San Francisco. Richter to 9.0.

[Bitcoin Seller]

Now , a Silk Road 3.0 will open 

[Vod]

And sometimes i'm being paranoïd coz i'm walking in the street with 1 gram of weed xD

You look suspicious when paranoid.