Feds Shut Down $1.2 Billion Criminal Internet Marketplace

Published October 3, 2013

Feds shut down .2 billion criminal internet marketplace
The website, described as “a sprawling black-market bazaar,” was used by several thousand drug dealers and unlawful vendors to distribute hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs including heroin, cocaine and LSD as well as other illicit goods and …
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Silk Road Blues: Shutting Down a Corner of the Dark Internet
In the instance of Silk Road, you had to use a gnarly-sounding bypassing engine called Tor. It's like an … Between Silk Road's launch in 2011 and February, when an Australian man was arrested with cocaine and MDMA procured from the site, Tor provided …
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Reporter Sheds Light On 'Gaddafi's Harem'
They were shouting “Allahu Akbar,” embracing, making the V for Victory sign, a red-black-and-green scarf tied around his head pirate style or worn as an armband, and never mind the fact that not every last one of them had fought from the first moment …
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