In 2014, the FBI took down 25 sites on the dark web, including some popular dark web marketplaces. While many people theorized as to what technical exploits the FBI might have used, the author asserts that they might have just taken advantage of carelessness on the site operators’ part. For example, the creator of the Silk Road 2 hosted it on a server registered to his everyday email, and he frequently commented on dark web-related issues on his non-anonymized Twitter account. The author also posits that the juvenile attitude of dark web market operators and their desire for publicity makes them an attractive target for law enforcement.
