It calls itself Silk Road 3.0 . The anonymous owners of another deepweb site, Crypto Market, are reputedly behind the new incantation which will be known as "Silk Road 3.0" While touting itself as "The darknet's most resilient marketplace", the login page states "We are under DDOS attack. Please come back later." at the time of the writing of this article. Reports further promised massive security updates though the site continues to be accessible only through the TOR network. Prior "Silk Road" markets including were attacked via flaws in Tor with Silk Road 2.0 notably having a record of the attack happening committed to court records.
Ransomware Industry Tightening Product Quality
Proofpoint brings us news that the makers of the CryptXXX ransomware have patched a vulnerability in their product which allowed various antivirus companies to produce "decryptor" products which would recover user files without payment. Numerous ransomware producers have seen their revenue suffer as antivirus companies produced software that exploited vulnerabilities in their ransomware to circumvent payment. If other ransomware ventures follow the example of CryptXXX in improving their own products, the industry as a whole could see substantial growth over the next year.
What Is Preet Bharara Afraid Of?
Insurgent Florida Politician Arrested After Auditing Local Election Website Security
A security audit of the Lee County Supervisor of Elections website conducted and responsibly reported by occasional insurgent political candidate David Levin (WOT:Unknown/Undisclosed) of Estero, Florida lead to Mister Levin's arrest on three felony charges. After disclosing the results of the audit to the current Supervisor of Elections, Mister Levin and David Sinclair (WOT:Unknown/Undisclosed), an acquaintance of Levin's running against the current supervisor of elections for the job, produced a video so the public could see the sort of nuisance website being run by the current office holder, one Sharon Harrington (WOT:nonperson). There is no word yet at press time on possible sanctions to be levied against Harrington for operating a public nuissance. Sorry for your laws.
A Form Of BitBet Online Again
BitBet is back up under new ownership after a month long hiatus. It has returned without the advertisements, and with an updated FAQ page featuring bold red text warning users of the same rules it always had. This is remarkable because the previous owner had been criticized extensively for the controversial stance that late bets should be considered gracious donations. The new site features well-setup up usgssl,1 and as a consequence will only load in usg-blessed web browsers such as those found on the consumer grade portable televisions commonly referred to as smart phones. Continue reading
Meaning set up rather horrible for even the meager security SSL/TLS purports to offer ↩
Abducted Liberty Reserve Founder Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison
Arthur Budovsky, a Costa Rican National living in Spain at the time he was abducted to suffer a show trial in the United States, has been sentenced by said kangaroo court to 20 years in prison. Preet Bharara's (WOT:nonperson) office was naturally involved with the prosecution offering:
Despite all his efforts to evade prosecution, including taking his operations offshore and renouncing his citizenship, Budovsky has now been held to account for his brazen violations of U.S. criminal laws
Even though all of those measures would to the contrary suggest that Budovsky instead simply had no interest in having any relationship with the United States at all. Unfortunately for Budovsky the United States was far less willing than he to end the relationship on amicable terms choosing to subject a man who did everything in his power to cleanly sever the relationship to sanctions as though they were still connected in any way beyond the abduction of Budovsky. Sorry for your laws.
DHS Officer Breaks, Performs Allegedly Unsanctioned Killings
An officer (WOT:nonperson) of one of the many "law enforcement" agencies associated with the United States Department of Homeland Security apparently broke today and killed people outside of the scope of its service to the criminal gang in Washington, DC. Two plainclothes "Law enforcement" officers (WOT:nonpersons) whose service to the regime was unaffected by the glitch experienced by the defective officer reportedly followed him around a shopping center for approximately an hour trying to find a polite opportunity to bring him in for maintenance.
United States Surveillance Court Rejected No Orders In 2015
News has emerged that the United States Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court which serves the criminal gang in Washington DC had rejected no requested surveillance orders presented for its consideration by gang members. This is just the latest in a long line of examples of various designer courts and magistrates existing merely to serve the criminal element in a role that has more in common with their police detectives than anything an actual jurist does. Meanwhile endangered actual jurists surviving in the United States tend to serve on appellate courts where their docket is filled with questions concerning the conduct of public entertainment which deprives them of the opportunity to effectively keep the lower courts miscarriages of justice in check. Sorry for your laws.
Hoaxtoshi Breaks Promise
Today Hoaxtoshi, also known as Craig Steven Wright (WOT:nonperson), broke a promise he made earlier this week to publicly present present proof that he might be the historical Satoshi. Hoaxtoshi began the week by hoodwinking a number of high volume/low quality media outlets like the BBC and the Economist into believing he was Satoshi by taking an early transaction from the blockchain and presenting its parts ordered in such a way as to fake the act of signing with a key awarded an early coinbase transaction. The exact words he presented are:
I’m Sorry
I believed that I could do this. I believed that I could put the years of anonymity and hiding behind me. But, as the events of this week unfolded and I prepared to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys, I broke. I do not have the courage. I cannot.When the rumors began, my qualifications and character were attacked. When those allegations were proven false, new allegations have already begun. I know now that I am not strong enough for this.
I know that this weakness will cause great damage to those that have supported me, and particularly to Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen. I can only hope that their honour and credibility is not irreparably tainted by my actions. They were not deceived, but I know that the world will never believe that now. I can only say I’m sorry.
And goodbye.
Which exactly fits the scammer modus operandi of claiming their emotional fragility on par with the contemporary northeastern liberal arts student makes solving the problem they claim they are easily equipped to solve "too hard" on an emotional level.
Phuctor Factors United States DISA Key
Almost lost in the joy of Phuctor returning is the news that among the keys factored is 5E544EE26273C00C079AD40991CF5894 associated with assist@assist.ims.disa.mil of the United States Department of Defense's Defense Information Systems Agency. This appears to be a key actually used by DISA in practice. Expect the astroturf machine to continue professing "cosmic rays" and engage in other late medieval apologetics in an attempt to sweep reality under the rug. Peace in our time.