U.S. authorities along with law enforcement Europe and Asia announced today the takedown of the dark web’s largest illicit market, AlphaBay.

A U.S. district court judge has confirmed what has probably been the worst-kept secret in security, that Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute was indeed contracted by the Department of Defense to study how to break Tor anonymity. A motion to compel discovery filed by Brian Farrell, a defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs...