Silk Road 2.0 operated until November 2015 when the alleged owner, Blake "Defcon" Benthall, was detained by police and Silk Road Reloaded, while in operation, requires specialized I2P connectivity ...

The Silk Road's Dark-Web Dream Is Dead. The Silk Road's libertarian free-trade zone has devolved into a fragmented, less ethical, and far less trusted collection of scam-ridden black markets.

Silk Road, the underground website where dealers sold illegal drugs, was supposed to be safe. The site was nestled deep in the dark web, accessible only through the anonymizing network Tor.

Authorities shut down one of the most popular anonymous drug bazaars on the web, Silk Road 2.0, in October 2013. The online marketplace was part of the 'dark web', in which users could purchase ...

NEW YORK — The trial of the "Silk Road" criminal-trafficking website's alleged operator opened Tuesday with prosecutors calling him a criminal mastermind and the defense team portraying him as ...

Silk Road Website Dealt Drugs, Guns, Assassins for Bitcoins, FBI Says. Though TOR was originally sponsored by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, it is now developed by the Tor Project.

The dark web has only grown in the years since the FBI seized the Silk Road’s servers and arrested its creator in late 2013. At that time, the site had roughly 12,000 listings, for items ranging ...

After Silk Road takedowns, Dark Web drug sites still thriving Evolution sells drugs, guns, and more—but no "services related to murder." Cyrus Farivar – Dec 19, 2014 8:10 am ...

Silk Road was once a popular marketplace in the Dark Web. Operating from 2011 to 2013, Silk Road -- only accessible through the Tor onion network -- connected buyers to traders offering drugs ...

David Ryan Burchard, 38, allegedly used "caliconnect" as his alias on the now-defunct Silk Road and apparently used similar usernames on Silk Road's successor site and then on other dark web ...

According to Department of Justice documents, Ross William Ulbricht, 29, has been pegged as Silk Road proprietor Dread Pirate Roberts. He was apprehended in San Francisco, along with $3.6 million ...

Nick Robinson on talks about playing a dark-web drug kingpin in "Silk Road" and his future involvement on Hulu's "Love, Victor." Continue to Variety SKIP AD You will be redirected back to your ...