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web service was established in 2011. You can, for it was ordered drugs (including LSD, opium, heroin) and a grenade launcher or hire a hitman. Vendors also offered malicious software that is used for hacking attacks and false documents.

Members pay the internet currency Bitcoin. When the FBI closed the page, commandeered virtual money, worth nearly $ 4 billion.

On the dark side of the Internet. You can buy LSD, grenade launcher or to arrange for the murder

Service Silk Road acted in TOR – inaccessible to most Internet users. – TOR is a software that creates a network of encrypted Internet connections between users, so-called. nodes – explained in an interview with “Gazeta Wyborcza” Piotr Konieczny, the site owner Niebezpiecznik.pl. – Calls are encrypted and established in such a way that none of the nodes have full knowledge of the sender of data and content.

He adds needed in the network IP address of the original sighting becomes practically impossible (because the connection is at least three different nodes).

Although the average internet it was difficult to gain access to the Silk Road, it had more than 950 thousand. user and the administrator, through commissions, earned by two years $ 80 million.

writes Niebezpiecznik.pl portal administrator Silk Road acted under the name Dread Pirate Roberts. The FBI was able to determine that it really is Ross Ulbricht, 29-year-old from San Francisco.

Knocked Up’s slip-up

As the administrator of a secret portal offering illegal services, Ulbricht was quite careless. You may not know that in July of this year, the FBI broke into the server disk Silk Road and secured personal messages of its users. Then the evidence against Ulbricht were not strong.

But the administrator, through his carelessness, he facilitated the work of federal agents. First, customs officers intercepted a package in which there were nine false identity cards. Ulbricht ordered her home address.

Later, as described Niebezpiecznik.pl, one of the internet cafes connect to an encrypted account, which administered the portal, log on from there to a private e-mail. Such mishaps had a few more.

– FBI infiltrated both retailers and the environment, among others led provocations involving a controlled purchase of drugs – translators needed. – As well as court documents reveal, taking orders “murder”. Webmaster Silk Road ran as made many mistakes. He used the same computer and the same Internet connection, to log on to the resources associated with the Silk Road and a personal email account.

Last Friday was stopped, and the site was closed.

He ordered the murder of a moderator?

In correspondence intercepted by the FBI Ulbricht were also messages that proved that commissioned the murder of one of the moderators, which threatened him that he wants 500 thousand. dollars, or transmit user data to the media. In correspondence Ulbricht are negotiating with one of the assassins, who for the execution of the order calls for 150 thousand. dollars. Moreover, there are e-mails, which show that the order was made. Ulbricht did not hear this on the allegations, because in addition to correspondence, there is no evidence that it all really happened. It is possible that the whole situation was a challenge with the FBI.

What is certain is that the feds have the data of most, or even all those who have ever used the services of the Silk Road. – The FBI can read all the messages that users submit their site as part of the Silk Road – says Piotr Konieczny. – Most of these messages are encrypted, but unfortunately some retailers admit that the FBI could get their keys. This will allow you to decrypt email messages that include drug delivery addresses. And they often overlap with the addresses of domestic buyers. Some of the sellers reveal that in order to make it easier to work on deciphering the merchant address, hid it in the form of clear text.