Today, not only has the Silk Road been shut down and its alleged founder arrested, but now the authorities are beginning to arrest some of the market’s biggest and most profitable sellers. Besides, a bunch of perverts certainly couldn’t aspire to the same levels of security as real criminals, like the ones at the Silk Road. These were ultimately child pornographers, however, and their downfall had a muted impact because, quite simply, people hated them. Did the NSA and FBI have Tor-defeating Trojans implanted on thousands of computers? People considered it a possibility, and worried about the basic validity of the Deep Web. A major child porn bust in August ignited renewed controversy over just how safe the Deep Web really was. Ross William Ulbricht, AKA Dread Pirate Roberts, the founder of the Silk Road. Whether you’re looking to buy card copying hardware or zip files full of credit card numbers, bags of cocaine or the services of an ex-military contractor, the Deep Web provided a way to get it, and get away with it. The Tor browser lets users access and even host websites anonymously, Bitcoins allow payment, and an ever-more efficient global postage system will even deliver. Up until recently, there was a sense of security below the surface of the Deep Web, an assumption that with a bit of vigilance any online action could be invulnerable the law. With the fall of Dread Pirate Roberts and the Silk Road, the denizens of the Deep Web lost the ability to fool themselves into thinking that they are beyond the reach of the law. That might seem like damning their achievements with faint praise, but if law enforcement wants to remain effective going forward it’s vitally important that it adjust its abilities and processes now - and its reputation, too. It took a long time and the invention of some new forms of detective work, but the concerted effort of the world’s security, narcotics, and cyber-crime police departments were finally able to take down Silk Road, the flagship of a rather fringe online anarchist movement.
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