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Skribent: Mike Gogulski
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Til: System undo crew
Emne: Re: [unSYSTEM] Silk Road Trial is starting.
Silk Road was hardly the first online black marketplace -- hell, I was
involved in some on BBSes in 1991.

Silk Road was the first online black marketplace both built around
Bitcoin and which achieved significant attention outside its own
userbase plus law enforcement.

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On 02/06/2015 10:46 PM, Julia Tourianski wrote:
> Good interjection Charlie.
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> We probably got lucky in the fact that the first online black
> marketplace was also the most moral. Pity the State shut it down eh?
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> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Charlie 'Charles' Shrem
> <cshrem@??? <mailto:cshrem@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I don't mean to but into this debate, but I wanted to point out
>     something interesting. 

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>     Taken from Andy's article in Wired "The Dark Web Gets Darker With
>     Rise of the ‘Evolution’ Drug Market"

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>             And Evolution’s popularity has been driven not only by a
>             more secure and professional operation than its
>             competitors, but also by a more amoral approach to the
>             cryptomarket than the strict libertarian ethos the Silk
>             Road preached. Case in point: About 10 percent of
>             Evolution’s products are stolen credit card numbers and
>             credentials for hacked online accounts.

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>             That development represents an unsavory departure from the
>             Silk Road’s rule that only “victimless” contraband could
>             be sold through its anonymous black market—a sign that the
>             traditional cybercriminal underground sees an opportunity
>             to merge its identity theft business with the widening
>             online trade in narcotics.

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>             “It’s moved well beyond victimless crime,” says a
>             researcher for the non-profit Digital Citizens Alliance
>             who closely tracks dark web markets and asked not to be
>             identified for legal and security reasons. “The
>             libertarian ideals behind Silk Road were about giving
>             everyone free choice. Now it’s gone past drugs to fraud.
>             It’s just about making money.”

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>     Thanks, 

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>     Charlie

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