Feds take down dozens of 'Dark Web' weapons and drug vendors

The 'dark web' -- a series of websites accessible through the anonymous Tor browser, which lends a tends a thin veil of anonymity to users -- shot to prominence as a place to buy almost anything thanks to a 2011 Gawker profile of The Silk Road, the internet's first big marketplace for almost anything. Lawenforcement agencies were horrified of the idea that an Amazon for crime could operate semi-openly, making weapons, drugs, and hacking tools available to anyone with a fistful of cryptocurrency,...