Anyone wonder HOW they did it?

I mean one market leaking his IP is possible (but still strange, as i bet many hackers tried to get into SR just for the btc). But so many markets leaking IPs ?!? I don't buy it. How did they seized it?!?

Doesn't anyone wonder?!?

If I had to guess I would say the feds started to run a lot of tor nodes to break the tor protocol.

Edit: OK I just found on the fbi website that they infiltrated the staff. this might explain SR but still not explaining the other markets.

Edit2: I've been almost through the document and it's like a fucking joke. He used his real Address to lease the servers, he fucking used GOOGLE (GOOGLE!) for his email domain (every shitty email provider has more privacy than GOOGLE) and used it for his serverlogs. this just reads like a joke ...

Edit3: Ok, I've read the whole document, there is no info on how they obtained the IP.


Comments


[2 Points] drugsaremyfriend:

SR2 probably told other people how to host dark net markets and then every market hosted at that server location got busted.


[2 Points] soapboxin:

Taken directly from the FBI website:

During the Government’s investigation, which was conducted jointly by the FBI and HSI, an HSI agent acting in an undercover capacity (the “HSI-UC”) successfully infiltrated the support staff involved in the administration of the Silk Road 2.0 website, and was given access to private, restricted areas of the site reserved for BENTHALL and his administrative staff. By doing so, the HSI-UC was able to interact directly with BENTHALL throughout his operation of the website.


[2 Points] carmackal:

You must have an open mind with these situations. Thousands of of people are payed millions of dollars to try to find the people who do these exact things.. find out who's selling the larger amounts of these drugs, running these market, and busting them. These are people, albeit narrow-minded ignorant people, can execute a job like that rather easily.

Consider the people who are running the markets, and the ones vending the drugs. You have people like the most recent Blake Benthall, former Ross Ulbricht who both used their current emails to purchase the servers in which the hosted their respectable markets on... think about how inconceivably stupid that is. That in itself gives le the whole investigation. They don't have to do much but start watching people and infiltrating and it goes from there.

Then you have vendors like poppermachine, PFM etc if you are a regular here, the drama and bullshit the vendors cause sometimes is ridiculous, so much of that attention should never been garnered.

If you can't imagine some way in which you could have infiltrated these peoples opsecs', you should try thinking a little harder. With the resources they have, it shouldn't be as difficult as we make it out to be.

In a perfect world however- where everyone used PGP for everything, people weren't stupid with their identity, and didnt babble on the clearnet about libertarian issues, bitcoin, hacking and the like, it would not be hard to run this operation much more cleanly and effeciently. However where there is humans there will be error. Ego ruins all. If you read on Defcons facebook... the personality he portrays isnt what I would consider "low key".

This is the end of nothing... everything will go on as usual. It's just sad to see they are wasting millions into resources to bust people like Blake and Ross, while violent cartels run rampant and that seems to go unnoticed.

This whole incident is way too nostalgic of last year, people are getting lazy, the lazy ones are getting caught, its sad to see but you have to understand what you are dealing with. The people who practice good opsec and only buy from good vendors will continue to thrive without problem, while the others will continue to fall. It is what is it, consolidation in the end will only lead to increase in quality of product of more competitive pricing, atleast in my opinion.

Hope nobody lost too much today. I lost like $14 on c9.. whatever. Just hope AlexSosa or Sc13nce aren't compromised. They were both standup dudes who don't deserve trouble.


[1 Points] danjmitch:

Official complaint here gives more info

http://posting.sfweekly.com/media/pdf/245744857-blake-benthall-criminal-complaint.pdf