Silk Road 2 acquired shut down and operator “Defcon” arrested
Today is a unfortunate day for anyone using the onionland. Silk Highway two just obtained shut down and the owner "Defcon", real name Blake Benthall, acquired arrested. Some essential points: – Blake Benthall aka Defcon was the operator of SR2 considering that december 2013, when the SR2’s Dread Pirate Roberts (Not Ross Ulbricht) remaining SR2. – The FBI observed out the physical spot of the SR2 server, by yet unidentified implies, and had police in some other place make a mirror of the SR2 server. – Blake was renting the server using his have title, with his own personalized e mail account. – FBI discovered evidence that he cashed out in excess of $200k us making use of exchanges and pre-purchased a Tesla S for $140k us, all working with that exact e mail. – When he was below surveillance, Blake generally still left his dwelling or resort at the very same time Defcon logged off the SR2 boards. – He was utilizing some strange Browser / OS combo which they observed on his lapt