Operation Onymous
Many DNMs seized today, 26 y/o SpaceX engineer arrested in San Francisco, raids in Ireland, http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-silk-road-seized-arrests-2014-11 SR2.0, Hydra and Cloud 9 are all display seized notices. TMP and Agora are still up. Here's the criminal complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/245744857/Blake-Benthall-Criminal-Complaint Full of all kinds of operational fuckuppery on all fronts. Sounds like they've got more in the pipeline too.. R
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 13:13:53 -0800 Rich Jones <rich@openwatch.net> wrote:
Many DNMs seized today, 26 y/o SpaceX engineer arrested in San Francisco, raids in Ireland, http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-silk-road-seized-arrests-2014-11
Duh! Those people didn't know about Tor - an amazing anonimity network developed by the US military to protect inalienable human rights. Had they used Tor, they would have never been caught.
SR2.0, Hydra and Cloud 9 are all display seized notices. TMP and Agora are still up.
Here's the criminal complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/245744857/Blake-Benthall-Criminal-Complaint
Full of all kinds of operational fuckuppery on all fronts. Sounds like they've got more in the pipeline too..
R
I want to know why all of these guys are hosting in Ireland. Do we have a reputation for being a safe haven? Because we certainly aren't. Ireland will do whatever you ask, if you're a country other than Ireland. Eager to please! Germany asked us once to buy up all of their banks' defaulting loans and save their economy by destroying our own..no problem, friends! Why do people think we'll keep out foreign investigations? And even if we did stand up to foreign powers and keep our own jurisdiction, Ireland still wouldn't allow black markets that willingly facilitate everything up to the sale of firearms to operate on our shores (Nor, IMO, should we). On 06/11/14 21:13, Rich Jones wrote:
Many DNMs seized today, 26 y/o SpaceX engineer arrested in San Francisco, raids in Ireland, http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-silk-road-seized-arrests-2014-11
SR2.0, Hydra and Cloud 9 are all display seized notices. TMP and Agora are still up.
Here's the criminal complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/245744857/Blake-Benthall-Criminal-Complaint
Full of all kinds of operational fuckuppery on all fronts. Sounds like they've got more in the pipeline too..
R
Second wave of arrests: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/operation-onymous-dark-web-arrests/# More than 400 onions seized, 17 arrests. "In addition to the takedowns of drug markets Silk Road 2, Cloud 9 and Hydra revealed Thursday <http://www.wired.com/2014/11/dark-web-seizures/>, it’s also busted contraband markets like Pandora, Blue Sky, Topix, Flugsvamp, Cannabis Road, and Black Market. Other takedown targets included money laundering sites like Cash Machine, Cash Flow, Golden Nugget and Fast Cash. And agents have taken from criminal suspects more than $1 million in bitcoin, $250,000 in cash, as well as an assortment of computers, drugs, gold, silver and weapons that they had yet to fully catalogue." R
On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 09:16:07 +0000 Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
And even if we did stand up to foreign powers and keep our own jurisdiction, Ireland still wouldn't allow black markets that willingly facilitate everything up to the sale of firearms to operate on our shores (Nor, IMO, should we).
You seem to be advocating against online black markets in a supposedly crpyto-anarchist mailing list? =P Granted black markets are less than ideal, but at least people can buy what they want...
On 06/11/14 21:13, Rich Jones wrote:
Many DNMs seized today, 26 y/o SpaceX engineer arrested in San Francisco, raids in Ireland, http://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-silk-road-seized-arrests-2014-11
SR2.0, Hydra and Cloud 9 are all display seized notices. TMP and Agora are still up.
Here's the criminal complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/245744857/Blake-Benthall-Criminal-Complaint
Full of all kinds of operational fuckuppery on all fronts. Sounds like they've got more in the pipeline too..
R
looks like there's collateral damage, torservers had some exits seized - wonder how many more exits are affected that do not have an organization attached to them https://blog.torservers.net/20141109/three-servers-offline-likely-seized.htm...
Interesting but unreported development: TheMarketPlace, aka "TMP", is now also gone, although it haven't seen anything about it in any of the government press releases. There is no seizure notice, it has simply vanished. The interesting thing here is that TMP operated over I2P rather than Tor. There was a Tor gateway, but I believe the hidden service still operated as a proxy inlet to the eepsite. If it has been seized as part of Operation Onymous, this would be the first time (that I've heard about) that law enforcement has been able to disrupt services on the I2P network. It's also quite possible that the operators simply got skittish and bailed. I certainly wouldn't blame them. Anyway, if anybody has any other information about LEO activities on I2P, I'd love to know more. R (ps - is anybody out there actually interested in any of these marketplace updates? If not, I'll stop, I'm basically just passing along news from various subreddits anyway.)
Rich, I saw TMP going away, very interesting. However, I think the absence of a seizure notice says it all. The owner, like others, probably decided to quit while he was ahead and out of cuffs. What is funny is that no bitcoins will likely be lost because TMP uses multi sig, so the feds can't take anything without other the buyer and seller agreeing. That's not to say that I have a definitive answer but that was my read on the situation. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Rich Jones <rich@openwatch.net> wrote:
Interesting but unreported development: TheMarketPlace, aka "TMP", is now also gone, although it haven't seen anything about it in any of the government press releases. There is no seizure notice, it has simply vanished.
The interesting thing here is that TMP operated over I2P rather than Tor. There was a Tor gateway, but I believe the hidden service still operated as a proxy inlet to the eepsite. If it has been seized as part of Operation Onymous, this would be the first time (that I've heard about) that law enforcement has been able to disrupt services on the I2P network.
It's also quite possible that the operators simply got skittish and bailed. I certainly wouldn't blame them.
Anyway, if anybody has any other information about LEO activities on I2P, I'd love to know more.
R
(ps - is anybody out there actually interested in any of these marketplace updates? If not, I'll stop, I'm basically just passing along news from various subreddits anyway.)
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