ELIAS GROLL – Foreign Policy: “According to the criminal complaint filed in a New York federal court detailing charges against him, Benthall was easily identified once federal authorities discovered a server used to run Silk Road 2.0. His email address gave away his name and was listed on several publicly available social media profiles, including his account on GitHub, an online forum for programmers. But Benthall’s arrest is only the most prominent example of a sweeping effort this week by U.S. and European authorities, dubbed Operation Onymous, to crack down on illicit online marketplaces. All together, they claim to have taken down more than 410 marketplaces operating via the Tor network, knocking out some of the web’s most prominent distributors of guns, drugs, and a laundry list of other illicit goods and services. Authorities also say they have arrested 17 vendors and administrators.”