That's it Silk Road it is again online and as all the website-drug market looks like is much more busy than it used to be.
Six months after the FBI shut down the infamous website that was also known as “the eBay for drugs”, μια νέα έκδοση του Silk Road εμφανίστηκε και προσφέρει ακόμη περισσότερα παράνομα ναρκωτικά από τον προκάτοχό της, σύμφωνα με έκθεση (PDF) published on Wednesday by Digital Citizens Alliance, a group that opposes online crime.
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The report found that today there are 14.000 drug listings on the new Silk Road, compared with 13.000 entries that existed on the site before closing last autumn.
"What we're seeing on the Silk Road website today is more drugs, more vendors and an even greater commitment from administrators and members to keep the community online," said Garth Bruen, senior fellow at the Digital Citizens Alliance.
In October, the FBI shut down Silk Road and arrested the site's alleged mastermind, Ross William Ulbricht, a 29-year-old San Francisco resident. The authorities claimed that Ulbricht was dealing from the underground market, illegal drugs, the tools for hacking computer and other illegal products and services.
A month later, a new site with the same name did it appearance of, offering a wide range of drugs.
The Digital Citizens Alliance team says it took months to track down such illegal websites as Silk Road. The group noted "an increased level of paranoia" among users of the sites after Ulbricht was arrested, as well as others who followed, according to the report.
"Silk Road 2,0" and some other similar websites on "Darknet" continue to thrive, citing various illegal products, such as forged official documents, secret financial transactions, hacking services, anonymous mail drops and hard drugs, the report said.
Recall that Ulbricht declared innocent of the accusations against him. His lawyer, Joshua Dratel, filed a motion to dismiss the charges he suffered last month, arguing that his client simply hosted the forum where drug trafficking and money laundering took place and was not actively involved.
