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From the US Department of Justice. Operation Dark HunTor

International Law Enforcement Operation Targeting Opioid Traffickers on the Darknet Results in 150 Arrests Worldwide and the Seizure of Weapons, Drugs, and over $31 Million
Today, the Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team joined Europol to announce the results of Operation Dark HunTor, a coordinated international effort on three continents to disrupt opioid trafficking on the Darknet. The operation, which was conducted across the United States, Australia, and Europe, was a result of the continued partnership between JCODE and foreign law enforcement against the illegal sale of drugs and other illicit goods and services. Operation Dark HunTor builds on the success of last year’s Operation DisrupTor and the coordinated law enforcement takedown earlier this year of DarkMarket, the world’s then-largest illegal marketplace on the Darknet. At the time, German authorities arrested the marketplace’s alleged operator and seized the site’s infrastructure, providing investigators across the world with a trove of evidence. Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and JCODE have since been compiling intelligence packages to identify key targets.

The xxxxTor names are a cute play on The Onion Router - a secure web browser used by security concious geeks like me.  This is not your mommy's VPN.  TOR is also used by people shopping on the "dark web" as it makes it very dificult to track a user back to their source. Not impossible, just difficult.

I don't care if someone does whatever they want.  They should not be allowed to offer it for sale through a widely accessed media.  Even corner drug dealers have ethics about selling to little children.

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