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VIDEOs-Huge Raids Shut Down 400+'Dark Net' Sites
Huge Raids to Shut Down 400-Plus Dark Net Site
Troels Oerting from Europol explained to the BBC's Anna Holligan how the joint police operation unfolded Silk Road 2.0 and 400 other sites believed to be selling children, illegal items including drugs and weapons have been shut down. BBC, 7 November 2014 The sites operated on the Tor network - a part of the internet unreachable via traditional search engines. The joint operation between 16 European countries and Brazil saw 17 arrests, including Blake Benthall who is said to be behind Silk Road 2.0. Experts believe the shutdown represents a breakthrough for fighting cybercrime. Six Britons were also arrested, including a 20-year-old man from Liverpool, a 19-year-old man from New Waltham, a 30 year-old-man from Cleethorpes and a man and woman, both aged 58, from Aberdovey, Wales. All were interviewed and bailed according to the National Crime Agency. Tor is home to thousands of illegal marketplaces, trading in drugs, child abuse images as well as sites for extremist groups. Analysis: Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology Correspondent It was the operation last year to take down the drugs marketplace Silk Road which was the first major success in the battle against criminal use of the dark net. Now this much bigger operation involving global co-operation amongst law enforcement agencies sees that battle taken to a new level, with Silk Road 2.0 amongst 400 sites closed. It's important to remember that the dark net isn't all about illegal activity. Indeed its best known tool the anonymising browser Tor was created by a US intelligence agency to help its operations and to assist people living under repressive regimes. Last year, many predicted that shutting one online drugs bazaar - and arresting its alleged owner Ross William Ulbricht - would not make a lot of difference, with plenty more rushing to fill the gap. Now this much bigger operation may signal that the authorities have developed new techniques to track down the origins of these networks and those behind them. Still, the number of arrests may be telling - 400 sites closed, but just 17 arrests. That would suggest there is a lot of work still to be done. Silk Road 2.0 - which launched in October last year - is one of the most notorious and deals in the buying and selling of illegal drugs. It was resurrected after the original Silk Road site was shut down and its alleged owner arrested. 'Serious organised crime' The operation also saw the seizure of Bitcoins worth approximately $1m (£632,000). Quote:
The BBC understands that the raid represented both a technological breakthrough - with police using new techniques to track down the physical location of dark net servers - as well as seeing an unprecedented level of international co-operation among law enforcement agencies. Sites seized showed the above caption The so-called deep web - the anonymous part of the internet - is estimated to be anything up to 500 times the size of the surface web. Within that experts refer to the dark net - the part of the network which Tor operates on. There are approximately three million Tor users but the number of sites may be smaller. Prof Alan Woodward a security consultant from the University of Surrey UK, who also advises Europol, said that the shutdown represents a new era in the fight against cybercrime. "Tor has long been considered beyond the reach of law enforcement. This action proves that it is neither invisible nor untouchable," he said. But, he added, it did not mean copycat sites would not spring up, or that the police had thrown light on the dark net. Quote:
But it has also been associated with illegal activity, allowing people to visit sites offering illegal drugs for sale and access to child abuse images, which do not show up in normal search engine results and would not be available to those who did not know where to look. Related Stories:
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