One of the largest drug marketplaces around, Agora announced Tuesday evening that it was to "pause operations" due to security concerns, and is calling upon its users to finish up transactions in a timely manner before it closes down, reports Business Insider.
Citing "vulnerabilities in Tor Hidden Services protocol which could help to deanonymize server locations," a spokesperson wrote on Reddit community r/DarkNetMarkets that "while we don't have a solution ready it would be unsafe to keep our users using the service, since they would be in jeopardy." So, they continue, "to our great sadness we have to take the market offline for a while, until we can develop a better solution. This is the best course of action for everyone involved."
The digital world is a very dangerous place to expect anonymity, Bitcoin is a very trackable means of exchange. It is not a way to escape from government snooping.
-RW
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