[jpalioto]

Since you're asking for speculation ... between FH, Atlantis and SR all going down so quickly, I would guess that TOR is compromised in some way (regardless of what the complaint says). IMHO, the probability that this case was cracked by a random CBP seizure is 0.

[dobbsbob]

Atlantis market disappeared probably because they didn't make any money and risk didn't equal reward, they claimed agents were messaging them looking to find informants but it's likely they just scammed all their users of a lot of escrow coins and disappeared.

Freedom Hosting was likely a NSA op to get a hold of tormail.org messages and history because Snowden was either using it or emailing somebody using it. The FBI will use parallel construction to cover that one.

SR I suspect they simply watched him sitting at cafes and libraries and logging into his virtual cartel. There were also numerous people who had discovered leakage and were able to find the server many of whom ended up working for DPR. Either way it wasn't set up very well, who knows maybe the FBI uploads spyware.js as an image while posting a new order or broke through the php5-mysql plugin. I'm sure they will discover that half his inner circle of close associates were informants too maybe they leaked the address. Remember he once put out applications for database administrators you can guarantee dozens of agents signed up for the job.

[ivmi]

And how strongly do you believe your speculation? I think you are completely wrong, so I'm curious. What do you place the odds at that sites similar to Atlantis and SR(namely sheep and bmr) will go down by the end of the year?