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'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web 11
#19095256 - 11/06/13 12:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web forbes.com
The Silk Road is dead. But the dark web dream lives on.
On Wednesday morning, Silk Road 2.0 came online, promising a new and slightly improved version of the anonymous black market for drugs and other contraband that the Department of Justice shut down just over a month before. Like the old Silk Road, which until its closure served as the Web’s most popular bazaar for anonymous narcotics sales, the new site uses the anonymity tool Tor and the cryptocurrency Bitcoin to protect the identity of its users. As of Wednesday morning, it already sported close to 500 drug listings, ranging from marijuana to ecstasy to cocaine. It’s even being administered by a new manager using the handle the Dread Pirate Roberts, the same pseudonym adopted by the previous owner and manager of the Silk Road, allegedly the 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht arrested by the FBI in San Francisco on October 2nd.
The only significant visible change from the last Silk Road, spotted by the dark-web-focused site AllThingsVice that first published the site’s new url, is a new security feature that allows users to use their PGP encryption key as an extra authentication measure. It also has a new login page, parodying the seizure notice posted by the Department of Justice on the prior Silk Road’s homepage, with the notice “This Hidden Site Has Been Seized” replaced by the sentence “This Hidden Site Has Risen Again.”
“You can never kill the idea of Silk Road,” read the twitter feed of the new Dread Pirate Roberts twenty minutes before the site’s official launch.
The Silk Road sequel experienced some hiccups coming online–it had planned to launch at 4:20pm on November 5th, a significant time and date for an anarchic drug site. But that launch was delayed for 24 hours, and even now the new Silk Road 2.0 isn’t fully operational–its administrators say they’re still gauging the site’s traffic load before they start accepting orders later this week.
When it does resume sales, the new Silk Road may not have an easy time convincing users to resume their black market business as usual. The previous Silk Road is only one of three anonymous black market sites to shut down in the last six weeks. First the administrators of the competing site Atlantis abruptly announced it would be going offline for “security” reasons, absconding with all the bitcoins that users had stored in their Atlantis accounts. Then last week, the Silk Road alternative site Project Black Flag similarly disappeared, and its administrator MettaDPR posted a message on its user forum admitting that he or she had “panicked” and stolen the site’s bitcoins.
A third site, the older Silk Road competitor Black Market Reloaded, also experienced a temporary crisis earlier in October when an administrator leaked the site’s source code onto the web. Black Market Reloaded’s owner known as Backopy initially said he would shut down the site as a result, but then changed his mind when the leak turned out not to expose any obvious vulnerabilities endangering user privacy.
“I for one do not trust the new [Silk Road],” wrote one user on the site’s forums. “I just get an eerie feeling from the whole idea of it, right now i will steer clear…only time will tell, i want to dive head first into it, but i want to see it play out for a little bit before i slap down another 500 bucks, an investment i made the day before [Silk Road] was closed.”
Many more of Silk Road’s users seem reassured, however, by the fact that Silk Road 2.0 is being managed in part by known administrators from the original Silk Road, particularly a moderator known as Libertas who has served as one of the more vocal leaders of the Silk Road community since Ulbricht, the alleged Dread Pirate Roberts, was arrested.
“Silk Road 2.0 will be reborn better, much much more secure as testament to the tenacity and determination of this wonderful community of ours,” wrote one moderator on the new Silk Road’s forum site with the name Synergy. “We will not be down trodden, we will rise again.”
“Into the breach once more my friends!” wrote one Silk Road vendor on the site known as PerfectScans.
Another user with the handle Steve Jobs took the opportunity to offer a eulogy for 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht, the accused previous Dread Pirate Roberts and owner of the original Silk Road, who was arrested last month and has been extradited from Glen Dyer prison in Oakland, California to a jail in New York where he’s scheduled to have a bail hearing this week.
“Within the excitement and morning light glare of a brand new day for all of us…say a kind prayer for Last DPR,” Steve Jobs writes. “Forsaken, fading, atrophying alone in a concrete box cell… who brought us all together here and gave me a home, now he has none.”
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: Ythan] 1
#19095319 - 11/06/13 01:08 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Seems like some pothead computer geek liked "V for Vendetta". Let's see how it turns out.
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: Ythan] 2
#19095329 - 11/06/13 01:10 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Sounds like a honey pot for LEO. DPR is probably workn for the man as part of a secret plea deal, only time will tell though...
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: dutchfunkle]
#19095347 - 11/06/13 01:14 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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dutchfunkle said: Sounds like a honey pot for LEO. DPR is probably workn for the man as part of a secret plea deal, only time will tell though...
As long as encryption was used it wouldn't be a very useful honeypot. Anyone who uses a site like that and does not encrypt their information is exceedingly foolhardy for trusting their security to a third party that could be compromised.
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: Cyclohexylamine] 1
#19095390 - 11/06/13 01:25 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'll give it a few months before logging on.
looks promising
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: NWlight]
#19095481 - 11/06/13 01:50 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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So it finally launched
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: NWlight]
#19095499 - 11/06/13 01:54 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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the existence of this site is beautiful. literally makes me tear up
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: Psilosopherr]
#19095512 - 11/06/13 01:56 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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[Mod edit: No sourcing]
-------------------- “Everybody is fundamentally, the ultimate reality. Not god in the political kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self – the deep down basic whatever there is. And you’re all that… only you’re pretending you’re not.” -Alan Watts I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.” ― Albert Hofmann
Edited by tymoteusz3 (11/06/13 02:00 PM)
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: LysergicX7]
#19095531 - 11/06/13 02:01 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Remember guys: No sourcing, requesting URLs, etc.
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: LysergicX7]
#19095585 - 11/06/13 02:10 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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LysergicX7 said: [Mod edit: No sourcing]

(jokes, chances are the url could probably be easily found on wikipedia like it was for the last silk road)
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: Cyclohexylamine] 3
#19095616 - 11/06/13 02:16 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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tymoteusz3 said: Remember guys: No sourcing, requesting URLs, etc.
We already had a thread in the news forum posting nearly a dozen deep web black market sites and their URLs. I don't see why his post should be censored.
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: Ythan]
#19095698 - 11/06/13 02:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ythan said: The dark-web-focused site AllThingsVice that first published the site’s new url
Just saying
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: NWlight]
#19095742 - 11/06/13 02:44 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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NWlight said: I'll give it a few months before logging on.
looks promising 

I hope this one does even better. Just to give a big fuck you to the pigs.
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: Psilosopherr] 1
#19096053 - 11/06/13 03:44 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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rbalzer said: the existence of this site is beautiful. literally makes me tear up
I know, the idea is so powerful that it makes me really glad I studied Computer Science
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: NicoCL]
#19096092 - 11/06/13 03:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: pimento]
#19096203 - 11/06/13 04:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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So it's a copy cat site?
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Cyclohexylamine
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: Ogla]
#19096229 - 11/06/13 04:26 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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losfreddy said: So it's a copy cat site?
Not really - it was developed by (some) of the former admins and a new head - but it's really only the same in name.
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: Cyclohexylamine]
#19096296 - 11/06/13 04:40 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I dunno. Seems I would be sooo paranoid about a felony being mailed to my house. It's hard to find an unused mailbox around my area. There are 2 that I know of, but people go there from time to time.
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: Morel Guy]
#19097815 - 11/06/13 09:21 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: 'Silk Road 2.0' Launches, Promising A Resurrected Black Market For The Dark Web [Re: NWlight]
#19097946 - 11/06/13 09:53 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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NWlight said: I'll give it a few months before logging on.
looks promising 
^this!
I didn't even use the old silk road, but I was still sad when it got shut down.
I'm glad a new one popped up, hopefully I'll actually get to use this one.
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