More Than 400 Sites In Tor Network Shut Down In Police Raids

[engine]

This looks to me as if the agencies are getting closer to tracking people on the Tor network.

Silk Road 2.0 and 400 other sites believed to be selling illegal items including drugs and weapons have been shut down.

The sites operated on the Tor network - a part of the internet unreachable via traditional search engines.

The joint operation between 16 European countries and the US saw 17 arrests, including Blake Benthall who is said to be behind Silk Road 2.0.

Experts believe the shutdown represents a breakthrough for fighting cybercrime.More Than 400 Sites In Tor Network Shut Down In Police Raids [bbc.co.uk]

[Marshall]

It is like the "War on Drugs" that has been going on for decades. As long as there is a demand, there will be "The Dark Side."

Marshall

[RedBar]

My biggest issue with the Tor browser is actually getting the darned thing to work properly, it fails to launch and connect far too often.

[tangor]

More info on the operation:

When “Operation Onymous” first came to light yesterday, it looked like a targeted strike against a few high value targets in the Dark Web drug trade. Now the full scope of that international law enforcement crackdown has been revealed, and it’s a scorched-earth purge of the Internet underground.

[wired.com...]

[lucy24]

a part of the internet unreachable via traditional search engines

Thank you, BBC, for your contribution to the ongoing effort to obfuscate the distinction between search engines and browsers.