From: cNet

Deja vu? A new online drug marketplace appears as Silk Road 2.0 with an operator using the same pseudonym as the original site’s alleged operator.

Dara Kerr

The Silk Road 2.0 login page taunts law enforcement by copying the seizure notice typically used by the FBI.

(Credit: Screenshot by All Things Vice)

Buying illegal drugs on the Internet may be making a comeback. It’s been a month since the FBI shuttered the online black market Silk Road, but it appears a clone has risen in its stead.

Silk Road 2.0 opened for business on Wednesday, according to dark-Web-focused site All Things Vice. Simultaneously, Twitter user Dread Pirate Roberts, which is allegedly the same moniker as the original Silk Road operator, tweeted the announcement of the new drug marketplace.

“#SilkRoad is back up. Deja vu anyone? #weriseagain,” Dread Pirate Roberts tweeted.

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