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The Tor Project wonders how the feds took down hidden websites

By Rocco Penn1 min readGoogle News

Little is known about how US and European law enforcement shut down more than 400 websites, including Silk Road 2.0, which used technology that hides their true IP addresses. The websites were set up using a special feature of the Tor network, which is designed to mask people’s Internet use using special software that routes encrypted browsing traffic through a network of worldwide servers.

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