Atlantis darknet-bitcoin-drug-mall just shut its doors, citing "security reasons"

[sonatine]

Dear all users,

We have some terrible news. Regrettably it has come time for Atlantis to close its doors. Due to security reasons outside of our control we have no choice but to cease operation of theAtlantis Market marketplace. Believe us when we say we wouldn't be doing this if it weren't 100% necessary.

Due to the urgency we are allowing all users to withdrawal all their coins for one week before the site, and forum, are shut down permanently. Please remove all of your coins, these will not be recoverable after one week from now. Anything remaining in your accounts will be donated to a drug related charity of our choosing.

We wish to thank all of you for making Atlantis a great and memorable place to trade on. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

Best wishes,
The Atlantis team

Yeah but Im sure SilkRoad is totally secure

[Sanlmar]

It's been a turbulent few weeks for the collection of websites hosted on the anonymity-protecting Tor Network, known as the Dark Net. Atlantis' shutdown comes just over a month after the FBI took down the web hosting company Freedom Hosting, a major player on the Dark Net, for child porn distribution by using specially-designed malware. And a popular seller on another underground marketplace, Black Market Reloaded, was apparently busted as well.

Thank goodness Big Brother only uses hacking for good not evil.

The government would never exploit a forum webserver to gain access and poisen the Sql, XSS, LFI, RFI or DNS.

Or would they, Druff?

[shortbuspoker]

I'm all for personal liberties but the FBI using malware to down child porn sites is top top in my book.

[Dan Druff]

Here are some interesting related articles:

FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

The title of the above article is misleading, but the article itself is nonetheless really interesting.

Basically, sometime in July, the FBI took over "Freedom Hosting", which was used as the server for many Tor-based ".onion" hidden websites. These websites were only accessible through the Tor network, and the FBI took a special interest in the ones on Freedom Hosting because they were frequently used to distribute child porn. Rather than simply take Freedom Hosting down, the FBI secretly took it over.

Then, on August 4, the FBI replaced the content of all Freedom-served sites with "Down for Maintenance", but snuck some special code to take advantage of a security hole in Firefox, allowing the users to somewhat be identified.

The "malware" is actually a misnomer. This is because it did not harm the user's computer, modify anything, steal data, or install any executables. It was actually more of spyware, as it simply grabbed the user's MAC address (unique for each machine, unless it's being spoofed), and the victim's Windows hostname. Then it bypassed Tor and sent this information to a server in Northern Virginia, which both stored the data on this server and exposed the user's real IP address.

The FBI has admitted they were behind this.

They were initially suspected because the spyware's information collection did not insert any code for future compromise, and did not do anything harmful or intrusive to the computer -- which is highly unusual for malware. The Virginia location of the server was also highly suspect for FBI involvement. Now it has been confirmed that the FBI did this.

This gives enough information to the FBI to both identify and later prosecute any child porn user.

Why?

The IP address will allow the user to be identified in most cases.

The MAC Address and Windows hostname combination would be evidence used against anyone who claims that their IP was somehow compromised and used by someone else, as the MAC Address and Windows hostname are specific to individual machines. If the FBI seized your computer and found a matching MAC Address, they can now positively link you to the sites you were visiting.

It is not clear what they will do with this data.

I'll go over the second article in my next post.

[Dan Druff]

Iovation Finds 30 Percent of Tor Traffic is for Fraud

Yes, it's that same Iovation -- the company founded by UB cheater Greg Pierson, likely with stolen UB money.

Anyway, that aside, the study found that 30.2% of Tor traffic is comprised by fraudsters.

I should say that they did a poor job separating traditional fraud from the usage of SilkRoad, which is a Tor site where mostly illegal items are sold for bitcoins. The SilkRoad usage was also included in the 30.2 percent, so Iovation defined "fraud" as "any illegal activity or transactions on the net", which are obviously two different things.

Still, this is again a reason NOT to hail Tor as something wonderful, but to understand that it's a tool which can make life easier for criminals.

At least it appears Tor isn't quite as secure as a lot of these criminals think.

[Sanlmar]

I'm all for personal liberties but the FBI using malware to down child porn sites is top top in my book.

My only point is that it's a fuzzy line and between spying on and manipulating the public and hacking for the public good. Who's going to decide what's appropriate? Yeah, you know who. I love those guys too.

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...tacenter/all/1

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy.]

There is really nothing you or your kids are going to be able to do to protect your privacy in the future. The technology barn door is open and endless resources are available. George Orwell was right.

Tor was a architecture to secure privacy.

Just interesting stuff.

I endeavor to keep my digital footprint very small. I have never had a Facebook LinkedIn, twitter account, Spokeo or anything similar. There are no pictures online with my name tagged.

I find it interesting to consider the digital trail the 20 somethings have left behind since middle school.

Game on.

[sonatine]

Who's going to decide what's appropriate?

Lawyers.

And if they decide its inappropriate (illegal), it gets sent to the security council, who architects then push through law revisions to allow what is needful to obtain the established goals.

[sonatine]

[Sanlmar]

Who's going to decide what's appropriate?

Lawyers.

And if they decide its inappropriate (illegal), it gets sent to the security council, who architects then push through law revisions to allow what is needful to obtain the established goals.

FBI NSA I love those guys. Always following procedure. I am sure they always ask permission, first.

But you gotta ask me nicely.

[Rollo Tomasi]

the druggies are going to live a lot longer than you sonaturd

Cause of death (Data from 2010 unless otherwise noted)

Drug-Induced Deaths 40,393
Intentional Self-Harm (Suicide) 38,364
Cannabis (Marijuana) 0

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Causes_of_Death

According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity and overweight together are the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States, close behind tobacco use (3). An estimated 300,000 deaths per year are due to the obesity epidemic

http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/obesity/mortality.htm

do the world a favor and kill yourself first pedotine