FBI seizes Silk Road website

FBI seizes black market website Silk Road, arrests its founder
Jon Fingas, engadget.com

Light just reached one of the dark­er cor­ners of the web: the FBI has seized Silk Road, a site infa­mous for host­ing anonymized, Bit­coin-based drug and gun sales. The move fol­lows a sting oper­a­tion that also led to the arrest of site founder…

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