Silk Road is an online black marketplace located on darknet market, and is best known for it's buying, selling, and trading of drugs. It was originally operated as a Tor Hidden Service, which is a software built for the sole purpose of anonymous communication and I'm sure I don't have to go into detail about why anonymous communication and the purchasing of drugs go hand in hand. The site for the marketplace officially launched in 2011 and there was no way to obtain a seller account other than bidding for them in a public auction. Later on they just charged each new seller account with a fixed fee so as not to bar people from using their site. In October 2013 the site was shut down by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Ross Ulbricht was arrested under charges of being the sites operator.
The following month Silk Road 2.0 came online and again was swiftly shut down with another potential operator in custody.
No comments:
Post a Comment