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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: UK Stealth on May 02, 2013, 09:33 pm
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22381046
taken from page.
Dark web drugs site Silk Road knocked offline by hacker.
An "underground" website famed for selling drugs and other illegal items has been targeted in a cyberattack.
It appears the site suffered from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday.
Silk Road is only accessible through Tor, a service which allows users to browse anonymously online.
Several US politicians have called for the marketplace to be shut down, without success.
DDoS attacks involve flooding a website with more traffic than it can handle, therefore knocking it offline.
After two days of intermittent service, Silk Road's administrators told users on Wednesday morning the site was back in action - but said they could not rule out further downtime.
"Silk Road is open and accessible," said the site's administrator, writing under the user name Dread Pirate Roberts.
"As soon as the attacker finds out, he will likely change his tactics and try to take the site down again.
"Hopefully he won't be able to, but time will tell."
Possible motives
Prior to the site's recovery, owners speculated that the attack had exposed deep-rooted vulnerabilities in the Tor network.
"It's looking more and more like a restructuring of the Tor software or even the Tor network will be required to mitigate the kind of attack we are under," one update read.
Tor is a channel for people wanting to route their online communications anonymously.
It has been used by activists to avoid censorship as well as those seeking anonymity for more nefarious reasons - leading it to be known as the "dark web".
Speculation has spread over possible motives for the attack - including the possibility that a competitor is looking to set up a rival site on the network.
Silk Road takes its name from the historic trade routes spanning across Europe, Asia and parts of Africa.
The website has gained a reputation as being an online black market, with illegal goods being sold openly.
Carnegie Mellon University estimated that over $1.22m (£786,183) worth of trading took place on the site every month.
Payments for goods are made with the virtual currency Bitcoin, making it hard to track users buying drugs.
The website has been targeted by police in various countries - but still continues to operate.
However, one Australian man using the site to sell drugs was arrested in February.
In a statement, local police said the arrest proved they were "one step ahead" of criminals on online networks.
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nothing about the jews >:(
also whomever wrote that article has downs or something, holyshitballs.
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thats so wack....
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i think its kewl its on there main page that means more interest more traffik ect. more notoriety.. : )
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IM ON TV! IM ON TV!
Really, I think that's pretty cool. Giving credit where credit is due to DPR, and showing their spirit by fighting off this douche hacker.
It's interesting they breached tor with DDOS, but hopefully they fix the bug and get everything figured out.
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Great, now any other hacker out there will see this as an easy target to test his botnet out on.
Anyone think it invites trouble? It woudn't if it said everything was fixed and all that, but it kinda says its still vulnerable.
The ending is a h o o t ! Police are one step ahead of us. mmmmmm, not quite, but low hanging fruit is always easy to reach for. . . Don't be easy to reach for and you will enjoy a great shopping experience here.
Thank you for shopping at Silk Road. Parking is free.
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Roll with the punches guy. It's working as of right now. It could be a lot worse. DPR could just throw his hands in the air and say "ok fuck this, too much trouble" and vanish (WITH your BTC). Yet he wouldnt/won't/doesn't. He busts his ass round the clock to keep this place secure AND continue to give us updates (despite staying mum out of personal security consideration). Fuck it, we're up and running. Let's assume the best :)
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Actually, everything in that excerpt is almost perfectly factual. It's one of the most unbiased articles on SR I've seen for a long time. As for the bit at the end, it's ludicrous of course -- but the fact remains: the fool said it.
Decent journalism.
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Actually, everything in that excerpt is almost perfectly factual. It's one of the most unbiased articles on SR I've seen for a long time. As for the bit at the end, it's ludicrous of course -- but the fact remains: the fool said it.
Decent journalism.
good facts, but for the most part c&p.
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"It has been used by activists to avoid censorship as well as those seeking anonymity for more nefarious reasons - leading it to be known as the "dark web"."
I could be wrong, but I always thought of "dark web" relating more to the the fact that everyone and sites are more anonymous, in the shade/dark, not in the light as in "clearnet."
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Bad News.....
We don't need the extra attention right now. It's just inviting the hackers to come attack for the publicity, and turning new people on to the site which will increase traffic and potentially cause more outages...
And now the site is down again..... Arrgggg >:(
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"It has been used by activists to avoid censorship as well as those seeking anonymity for more nefarious reasons - leading it to be known as the "dark web"."
I could be wrong, but I always thought of "dark web" relating more to the the fact that everyone and sites are more anonymous, in the shade/dark, not in the light as in "clearnet."
No, you are correct. They are lying. This is typical mainstream media propaganda.
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>:( CHEERS BBC NEWS FOR NOW BROADCASTING TO MY !!! FLATMATES!!! -WHAT THE GIANT GREEN FUCKING CAMEL PICTURE MEANS ON MY WALL .
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It's a C&P from main site?.
why not take the time to read the
link before opening ones big gob!. sigh...
MAIN thing is it on there main Page
it get's Uber millions of hits per day.
All good as far as i can see.
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Bad News.....
We don't need the extra attention right now. It's just inviting the hackers to come attack for the publicity, and turning new people on to the site which will increase traffic and potentially cause more outages...
/Agree - I cringe each time there's a new mainstream media mention of SR.
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"In a statement, local police said the arrest proved they were "one step ahead" of criminals on online networks."
Wow okay. They busted ONE vendor who realistically was being a dumb-ass with this dealings. Law enforcement are definitely "one step ahead" of us.
LOL
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Law enforcement agencies have some of the most shameless PR departments you will ever see.
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Law enforcement agencies have some of the most shameless PR departments you will ever see.
I noticed a press release from the AFP once where they claimed the Silk Road was overseas.
Sure is interesting that AFP don't have SR's real IP address and they're still able to figure out it has to be ex-Australia
I think that says a lot about the provincial perspective of Australian law enforcement. Give it a couple of decades and they'll be building a Great Wall and calling outsiders gaijin.
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Ugh what is this garbage. Can't believe the BBC are stooping so low.. usually they report on worthwhile reads. This is just asking for people to research the shit out of it. My mum's going to know about this place by next week if this carries on.
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I hate how much publicity SR gets, Freelance writers and bbc news, stuff like that..
You get a freelance writer who reads about SR on wiki then thinks he knows what its all about an writes about it as if he has been researching for years, then the news trys to join in
maby BBC news should focus on the story
"All of the uk's population who pay Tv license have actually been funding a pedophile fueled company"
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Fuck yeah cant wait to welcome all these new vendors and customers.
The more competition with vendors means more choice for customers.
This is what the SR is a free market for everybody.
Come one and come all fuck yeah.
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>:( CHEERS BBC NEWS FOR NOW BROADCASTING TO MY !!! FLATMATES!!! -WHAT THE GIANT GREEN FUCKING CAMEL PICTURE MEANS ON MY WALL .
Haha! Pretty dumb thing to do then, in retrospect. I thought the same about my friends Demonoid-logo t-shirt; it just screams 'I download illegal files!' to anyone who knows what the Demonoid logo is....
Anyhow, if you still have the opportunity to lie just say you were experimenting with Laurence of Arabia/Camel cigarrettes Warholesqu pop-art style work... they might be fooled by it...
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"It has been used by activists to avoid censorship as well as those seeking anonymity for more nefarious reasons - leading it to be known as the "dark web"."
I could be wrong, but I always thought of "dark web" relating more to the the fact that everyone and sites are more anonymous, in the shade/dark, not in the light as in "clearnet."
No, you are correct. They are lying. This is typical mainstream media propaganda.
The mainstream media operates basically as a corporate and state propaganda machine, but I'm pretty sure this is just a mistake and/or a way to make the darkweb sound more exciting. If anything, this would be pro-SR propaganda since it makes the whole thing seem way more badass.
This article is fine. Boring, but fine.
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SR to become Amazon of drugs in 2013, total uptime to go from 4hrs per day to 10 minutes.