Silk Road Reloaded Ditches Tor for a More Anonymous Network

To the frustrations of the many police agencies all over the world attempting to shut down the Silk Road for good, the black market specialist has sprung back to life reincarnated as the Silk Road Reloaded. The new Silk Road is bigger and better and darker that its predecessor, dropping Tor for a deeper and blacker I2p network and Bitcoin for multiple transaction cryptocurrencies.

This new illicit site actually cribs this I2p tech from one of Silk Road's competitors, TheMarketplace, which is one of the hardest to access markets on the dark web. After downloading I2P software or reconfiguring your computer, users then access .I2P sites, known as "eepSites." One source says the actual entomology of the "eep" suffix could be an allusion to "end-to-end protocol," "encrypted-to-encypted peer," or is "just a phoneme for IIP (Invisible Internet Project)."

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Not sure how many people will continue to use the #1 target for law enforcement.

The "Silk Road" brand is just as alluring for law enforcement as it is for customers if not more so. Law Enforcement doesn't get as much bang for their budget buck for busting "generic name" site here. Silk Road though... budget gift that keeps on giving!

I am not convinced Tor is vastly less secure then other methods. I suppose security by obscurity is the mantra here but we all know that is a false sense of security.

Lets also not forget, normal mistakes and confessions are still 90% of of the cause of busts. This isn't "hackers" the movie. Silk Road was just busted because they hired an undercover as a support tech... Things never change.