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Submission + - Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco

Submitted by blottsie
blottsie writes: The FBI has arrested the online persona "Defcon," identified as Blake Benthall, a 26-year-old in San Francisco, who the agency claims ran the massive online black market Silk Road 2.0. Benthall's FBI arrest comes a year after that of Ross Ulbricht, also from San Francisco, who's alleged mastermind of the original Silk Road and still awaiting trial.

The largest of those reported down is Silk Road 2.0. But a host of smaller markets also seized by law enforcement include Appaca, BlueSky, Cloud9, Hydra, Onionshop, Pandora, and TheHub.
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The Race To Beer With 50% Alcohol By Volume 297

Posted by samzenpus from the good-stiff-12-pack dept.
ElectricSteve writes "Most of the world's beer has between 4% and 6% alcohol by volume (ABV). The strength of beer achieved by traditional fermentation brewing methods has limits, but a well-crafted beer that is repeatedly 'freeze distilled' can achieve exquisite qualities and much higher alcohol concentrations. An escalation in the use of this relatively new methodology over the last 12 months has seen man's favorite beverage suddenly move into the 40+% ABV realm of spirits such as gin, rum, brandy, whiskey, and vodka, creating a new category of extreme beer. The world's strongest beer was 27% ABV, but amidst an informal contest to claim the title of the world's strongest beer, the top beer has jumped in strength dramatically. This week Gizmag spoke to the brewers at the center of the escalating competition. New contestants are gathering, and the race is now on to break 50% alcohol by volume."

Comment legal vs. moral vs. ... (Score 1) 266

by zenbo (#402226) Attached to: Peer-To-Victim File Sharing
"So when you click "Share This Folder," whether you understand its implications or not, you've authorized the world to play with your drive, and have no right to complain."

Excuse me? So if someone nukes your hard drive because you don't understand the implications of your actions (hey, you shared it read/write, right?) that's morally justifiable and furthermore something that's fine to base a business on?

And I suppose when you install linux with a vulnerable version of statd and someone breaks into your system that's fine too, because you chose to install it?

I guess this means that all abuses of other people's computers are not problematic, because the owner of the system knew the risk of being on the Internet - e.g. no software is perfect and 100% secure - when they connected. Actually, it doesn't even matter if the owner did know, they should have.

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