Five weeks after the FBI shuttered what it called “the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet” and arrested its suspected owner, a new online bazaar for drugs and other contraband has arisen from the ashes bearing the same name — Silk Road
That’s not the only similarity, though. The website’s owner is fashioning himself as the “Dread Pirate Roberts,” a reference to the book and film The Princess Bride, which the owner of the original Silk Road also used
We’ve communicated with the new Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) throughout the past month, using encrypted messaging on the new Silk Road’s forums. Though the marketplace launched Wednesday, the new site’s forums have been active since Oct. 7 — an attempt by the new Dread Pirate Roberts to hold together the massive Silk Road community, keep its members from going to competitors and engage them in the process of reinventing the site Read more…
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