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Silk Road Dread Pirate Roberts Takedown Not About Internet Privacy

While the Silk Road site was hidden in the bowels of the Internet under the cloak of anonymity provided by the Tor anonymity onion router project, the shutdown spearheaded by the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) did not involve a technology breach of Tor.

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