Apr 30, 2014 · The Digital Citizens Alliance says it spent months tracking illicit websites like Silk Road and their discussion boards. The group noticed "a certain level of paranoia" among users of these sites after the arrests of Ulbricht and several other people who have been charged with trafficking drugs and laundering money on Silk Road, according to the report.

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Silk Road was a far better way for people to buy and sell drugs than on the streets. It was a workable model of largely peaceable and less dangerous drug transactions.

Silk Road closed down exactly one month ago today in a much publicized ceasure by the FBI. It was the go-to place for illegal things on the web, and was known as the "Amazon of drugs." It Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market, best known as a platform for selling illegal drugs. As part of the dark web, it was operated as a Tor hidden service, such that online users were able to browse it anonymously and securely without potential traffic monitoring. Oct 03, 2013 · Drug-starved Internet users were able to rely on Silk Road to get their fill of whatever vice they wanted until today, when the anonymous marketplace was seized and shut down by the FBI. Oct 03, 2013 · Here Are Three Other Sites Still In Operation That Sell Illegal Drugs Just Like Silk Road Did. Dylan Love. Oct 3, 2013, 02:00 IST.

Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market, best known as a platform for selling illegal drugs. As part of the dark web, it was operated as a Tor hidden service, such that online users were able to browse it anonymously and securely without potential traffic monitoring.

Ross Ulbricht - Wikipedia Ross William Ulbricht (born March 27, 1984) is an American convict best known for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. The site was designed to use Tor for anonymity and bitcoin as a currency. Ulbricht's online pseudonym was "Dread Pirate Roberts" after the fictional character in the novel The Princess Bride and its film adaptation.