Right now is a unhappy day for everybody using the onionland.

Silk Street two just obtained shut down and the operator "Defcon", real identify Blake Benthall, bought arrested.

Some important details:

– Blake Benthall aka Defcon was the operator of SR2 given that december 2013, when the SR2’s Dread Pirate Roberts (Not Ross Ulbricht) remaining SR2.

– The FBI found out the bodily spot of the SR2 server, by however not known indicates, and experienced law enforcement in some other region make a mirror of the SR2 server.

– Blake was leasing the server employing his personal title, with his personal personal e mail account.

– FBI uncovered evidence that he cashed out over $200k us utilizing exchanges and pre-ordered a Tesla S for $140k us, all working with that exact same e-mail.

– When he was under surveillance, Blake generally still left his property or hotel at the similar time Defcon logged off the SR2 community forums.

– He was using some uncommon Browser / OS combo which they discovered on his notebook and logfiles on SR2 have been showing that Defcon was making use of precisely that combo.



Looks like the SR2 owner was not only not as poethic as Ross Ulbricht (SR1 Operator) but also alot fewer smart, they had alot more hard law enforcement do the job to do to discover Ross about a year ago.

The only really interessting issue about this news imho is, how did they come across the server?

And who will open up SR3 or will the Silk Highway model just vanish with no new Dread Pirate Roberts in seight?

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Appears to be like this could be a significant procedure with Several arrests all all over the globe.

The next websites seem to be confirmed as seized far too:

Hydra

Cloud nine

though Pandora, BlueSky and Alpaca are also down.