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Global Deep Web Take-Down

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Fri Nov 07, 2014 at 02:50:01 PM EST
Tags: Europol, Deep Web, Bitcoins, Silk Road2 (all tags)
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There's much more to the yesterday's story of the "Deep Web" (aka "Dark Web") takedown of Silk Road 2 and arrest of San Francisco programmer Blake Benthall. (The Complaint in Benthall's case is here.)

WIRED reports today Operation Onymous was global in scope. The FBI press release is here. From WIRED:

On Friday, the European police agency Europol along with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security announced that the operation has now arrested 17 people in as many countries and seized hundreds of Dark Web domains associated with well over a dozen black market websites.

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