Info from TechCrunch:
The former admins and users of the Silk Road are planning to resurrect it. User RR writes on the no-longer-operational anonymous marketplace Atlantis quote: “We have SilkRoad v2.0 ready to launch and is now in its final testing stages. Our site has all the features of the original one and we have kept the same style of forum for your ease.”
The new SilkRoad will be sending out anonymous invites to former vendors and then open to the Tor-using public soon after.
The representatives of Atlantis wrote, quote:
From a quick scout around I’ve counted at least 5 publicly stated projects with the said aim of becoming “Silk Road 2.0″ and many many more gathering info and building alliances.
And this is what Law Enforcement is now parading as a victory? Over two years of investigation, millions of dollars spent and for what so a couple of armchair programmers can build it again in a few days while in the meantime vendors simply move to other site’s .
Users are already planning ways to keep the new site secure. The Silk Road won’t be dead for long. Hackers will produce more Silk Road variants than any government can police.
There seems to be no shortage of well educated American males in their late 20′s willing to sacrifice bright futures and their own personal liberty to highlight the downright totalitarianism being inflicted by agents of government. Make no mistake: We are witnessing a revolution in progress, and the internet is the battlefield. Are you fighting?
h/t http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/04/deep-web-users-are-ready-to-launch-silk-road-2-0/