Darknet Sweep Casts Doubt on Tor

http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/11/darknet-sweep-casts-doubt-on-tor/
Date Written:  2014-11-07
Publisher:  Dissident Voice
Year Published:  2014
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX16921

When news broke of Silk Road 2.0’s seizure by law enforcement a lot of people probably wrote it off as an isolated incident. Silk Road 2.0 was the successor to the original Silk Road web site and like its predecessor it was an underground bazaar for narcotics, fueled by more than $8 million in Bitcoin transactions and operated as a hidden service on the Tor anonymity network.