Sean wrote I was reading on Reddit that the feds had access to the servers since mid-2012 I don't know the site or how it works but if thats the case i'm sure they have pinned a lot of people already.

The owner using stackoverflow was a bit careless.
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keeping to our own rules here we don't allow discussion of drugs so keep it clean

Only stupid people that don't ensure their anonymity will get caught.

Marloosh wrote

Potion wrote Im pretty sure there are more websites on the onion just like silk road, while silk road is a majority of the trading i don't think the FBI is getting anywhere since people will just look elsewhere.

you are correct there will be other sites like slikroad but smaller but the point is that they must have known about it for years . What made them decide to stop it now rather then ealier?

Just because you know a site exists, doesn't mean you have the power to take it down. And, what would be the point if you can't arrest and prosecute the people running/using the site?

Also, it's been said recently, that a good 76%( I think it was 76) of Tor is already 'tapped' by the US Government.

It's just another case of the Internet being ravaged by the powers at be, most of the articles are crap, SR was a nice community really, there were NO arms sales, or sales of hitmen, just drugs, and wares.

Don't believe everything you read though, the NSA claimed they could break any current online encryption in a short space of time, yet demanded the SSL keys for Lavabit, it's just more scare mongering. I'm going off topic here lol.

ive been using silk road for a while now i only lost 0.6510 bitcoins witch is about 100 dollars aud it sucks but what can i do. i bet in about 2-5 years some other person will make another website like silk road.

Arni wrote ive been using silk road for a while now i only lost 0.6510 bitcoins witch is about 100 dollars aud it sucks but what can i do. i bet in about 2-5 years some other person will make another website like silk road.

Just so you know, SR was not the first(and it won't be the last) There was a massive site before it, I can't remember the name at the moment, but they got very very careless, started taking money via PayPal and GCX, and they got shutdown very quickly, and A LOT of arrests were made. SR was much more secure, and refused to let sellers use any other payment method. Worked well for a long time

It was The Farmers Market!

Arni wrote ive been using silk road for a while now i only lost 0.6510 bitcoins witch is about 100 dollars aud it sucks but what can i do. i bet in about 2-5 years some other person will make another website like silk road.

Ive also used Slikroad before and there are
others just saying BMR and Sheep..not giving the addresses though...

wow i didnt think thed ever shut down the silk road

Lmaoo they have known about it and had access to it for years just took them long enough to do something about it. At last they have

Maul wrote I think I've been playing GTA 5 for too long, I read this title as: "fib"

That's exactly what I thought to, been seeing soooo many gta posts lately on here it make sense

hmongkiller500 wrote

Arni wrote ive been using silk road for a while now i only lost 0.6510 bitcoins witch is about 100 dollars aud it sucks but what can i do. i bet in about 2-5 years some other person will make another website like silk road.

Ive also used Slikroad before and there are
others just saying BMR and Sheep..not giving the addresses though...

oh ok thanks for that ill do some research

I thought you guys were talking about the game LOL