Today is a sad day for anyone making use of the onionland.

Silk Road two just got shut down and the operator "Defcon", authentic title Blake Benthall, acquired arrested.

Some crucial specifics:

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

– The FBI identified out the physical place of the SR2 server, by still not known suggests, and had police in some other country make a mirror of the SR2 server.

– Blake was leasing the server using his individual name, with his possess private e mail account.

– FBI observed evidence that he cashed out in excess of $200k us utilizing exchanges and pre-requested a Tesla S for $140k us, all employing that similar email.

– When he was underneath surveillance, Blake typically left his house or lodge at the exact time Defcon logged off the SR2 message boards.

Here is more info in regards to hidden wiki review the website. – He was employing some uncommon Browser / OS combo which they found on his laptop computer and logfiles on SR2 have been demonstrating that Defcon was applying accurately that combo.



Appears to be like the SR2 operator was not only not as poethic as Ross Ulbricht (SR1 Operator) but also alot considerably less intelligent, they had alot far more tricky law enforcement work to do to locate Ross about a year ago.

The only really interessting detail about this information imho is, how did they obtain the server?

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

Update:

Seems to be like this could be a significant procedure with Many arrests all all over the globe.

The following web pages feel to be confirmed as seized too:

Hydra

Cloud 9

although Pandora, BlueSky and Alpaca are also down.