So apparently it was a six-month long operation...
[28 Points] eyesofmedusa:
[9 Points] CoveredInMud:
I always said the alphabets would have no problem being in on running that thing. Many said, "but they can't do that." Bullshit, they can and did do just that. There are no street smarts with today's Internet generation.
[7 Points] sharpshooter789:
A couple of weeks ago someone mentioned a large US+euro cooperative effort. Looks like that person was right.
edit: the "plan" was called itom.
Cloud Nine, Hydra, BlueSky, Outlaw Market and Alpaca are some of the other names on the police hitlist that are out of action.
[5 Points] sp1ritual:
Six months, a ton of resources and money with only a scratch to the community....
I just feel sorry for the guys that got arrested.
Let's cross fingers that the silly War on Drugstm will become so expensive and ineffective so that it'll just die out.
(and we need to make sure our tools, eg Tor, will always stay ahead of the LE capabilities)
[3 Points] None:
It was longer then that, if you read the complaint it says the Homeland security undercover was involved since day one, he was invited into the group of mod/admins before sr2 even went live which was nov 6 2013
[3 Points] impost_r:
Servers in the Netherlands where SR2 resided on were seized.
http://beta.nos.nl/op3/artikel/2002660-online-zwarte-markten-wereldwijd-op-zwart.html
[3 Points] Homer_Goes_Crazy:
The seizure notices on C9 and Hydra said something about "6 Months, 18 days" when I counted back, I landed on April 20th, which I thought was interesting.
[0 Points] 57644:
So it took the FBI 6 months and probably millions of dollars to shut down a shitty n00b DNM and "400" (seems legit) other DMNs? Yea, we got nothing to worry about. I'll be over at Agora conducting my business as usual.
The 1m in btc compared to the millions spent across all these agencies make these news laughable at worst. I'm more angered that as a tax payer that my tax dollars are being used for all of these futile attempts to collect money on shit they can't tax....... idiots....