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| Subject: Anarcho-Capitalist NEWS: New Silk Road online drug bazaar opens - YaY! Thu Nov 07, 2013 3:07 am | |
| A new anonymous internet marketplace for illegal drugs has debuted with the same name and appearance as the Silk Road website shut down by US law enforcement a month ago.
Like its predecessor, the new Silk Road listed hundreds of advertisements for marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and other illegal drugs available for purchase from independent sellers using the anonymous Bitcoin digital currency.
On October 1, the FBI shut down the original Silk Road and arrested its alleged mastermind, Ross William Ulbricht, 29, known online as "Dread Pirate Roberts", in San Francisco.
"It took the FBI two-and-a-half years to do what they did ... but four weeks of temporary silence is all they got," a site administrator wrote, also using the "Dread Pirate Roberts" moniker. Advertisement
The FBI declined to comment on the new version of the Silk Road. For more than two years, the original site acted like an eBay of vice, allowing users to buy and sell illegal goods and services on the assumption that they were safe from the law. Deliveries were made through the mail in discrete packages.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/new-silk-road-online-drug-bazaar-opens-20131107-2x2xt.html#ixzz2jwemlqjk |
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