Agora (online marketplace)
Type of site | Darknet market |
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Available in | English |
URL | agorahooawayyfoe.onion (defunct)[1][2] |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Required |
Launched | 2013 |
Current status | Offline |
Agora was a
Agora was unaffected by
In October 2014 to January 2015, the art collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik explored darknet culture in an exhibition in Switzerland, The Darknet: From Memes to Onionland, displaying the purchases of the Random Darknet Shopper, an automated online shopping
In August 2015, Agora's admins released a
Recently research had come [sic] that shed some light on vulnerabilities in Tor Hidden Services protocol which could help to deanonymize server locations. Most of the new and previously known methods do require substantial resources to be executed, but the new research shows that the amount of resources could be much lower than expected, and in our case we do believe we have interested parties who possess such resources. We have a solution in the works which will require big changes into our software stack which we believe will mitigate such problems, but unfortunately it will take time to implement. Additionally, we have recently been discovering suspicious activity around our servers which led us to believe that some of the attacks described in the research could be going on and we decided to move servers once again, however this is only a temporary solution.
At this point, while we don't have a solution ready it would be unsafe to keep our users using the service, since they would be in jeopardy. Thus, and to our great sadness we have to take the market offline for a while, until we can develop a better solution. This is the best course of action for everyone involved.[9]
After the closure of Agora, most activity moved over to the darknet market AlphaBay, lasting until its shutdown by law enforcement in July 2017.[10]
References
- ASIN B00FNRU47E.
- ^ "Agora Market". Archived from the original on 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
- ^ Andy Greenberg. "Not Just Silk Road 2: Feds Seize Two Other Drug Markets and Counting". Wired, 6 November 2014.
- ^ Andy Greenberg. "Drug Market ‘Agora’ Replaces the Silk Road as King of the Dark Net". Wired, 2 September 2014.
- ^ Pangburn, DJ (13 January 2015). "The Best Things a Random Bot Bought on the Dark Net". Retrieved 26 May 2015.
- ^ Power, Mike (5 December 2014). "What happens when a software bot goes on a darknet shopping spree?". Retrieved 26 May 2015.
- ^ website of !Mediengruppe Bitnik
- ^ Greenberg, Andy (26 August 2015). "Agora, the Dark Web's Biggest Drug Market, Is Going Offline". Wired. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- Reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ "Two of the biggest dark-web markets have been shut down". The Economist. 21 July 2017.