AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down
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Re: AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down
#2Don't these people know that they will never kill this. Just like Napster's death, and oink, and what, and so on. Every time they shut one of these down the next one will be harder to shut down.
Re: AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down
#3Don't these people know that they will never kill this. Just like Napster's death, and oink, and what, and so on. Every time they shut one of these down the next one will be harder to shut down.
Reminds me a bit of the canonical natural selection anecdote:
Re: AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down
#4Don't these people know that they will never kill this. Just like Napster's death, and oink, and what, and so on. Every time they shut one of these down the next one will be harder to shut down.
They know, but this is their job anyways.
Re: AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down
#5Don't these people know that they will never kill this. Just like Napster's death, and oink, and what, and so on. Every time they shut one of these down the next one will be harder to shut down.
Of course they know that, just as murder investigators know they're never going to stop murder from happening.
Hell, in Napster's case, I'd bet half the folks involved went "woohoo!" then went home to listen to some pirated music.
Re: AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down
#6This won't stop people who want drugs from buying them. What it'll do is prevent some people from buying them from reputable sellers with positive feedback. Now they might have to find some shady dealer who could be selling them rat poison.
Re: AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down
#7Don't these people know that they will never kill this. Just like Napster's death, and oink, and what, and so on. Every time they shut one of these down the next one will be harder to shut down.
You can just view it as free high quality security tests. Sucks for a lot of people. But it already got so much stronger I wonder what comes next.
Re: AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down
#8Any more info out there on the technical details of the bust?
Re: AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down
#9Condolences to any users/vendors who lost coin because of the takedown.
Anybody have info on how the admin was found? Was the method of DDoSing Tor nodes used to force traffic into honeypot'd Tor nodes?
Re: AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down
#10Certainly a definitive source coming from the DoJ, but they were shut down several weeks ago, and the arrested founder apparently committed suicide 6 days ago.