The Silk Road Is Dead, But The 'Dark Web' Lives On

We hope you've been enjoying The Daily Digg! As promised, today's top stories are below. Let us know what you think, and feel free to unsubscribe at any time. -The Digg Team The Daily Digg Thursday, October 3, 2013 'TOR IS NOT BROKEN' The Silk Road Is Dead, But The 'Dark Web' Lives On theverge.com Dread Pirate Roberts' wasn't as smart as he — and everyone else — assumed he was. CRACKING LAVABIT How The FBI Cracked Snowden's Email Provider nytimes.com One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent's business card on his Dallas doorstep. So began a four-month tangle with law enforcement officials that would end with Mr. Levison's shutting the business he had spent a decade building and becoming an unlikely hero of privacy advocates in their escalating battle with the government over Internet security. THE FLYING CROWBAR The Insane Doomsday Weapon America Almost Built jalopnik.com The Cold War had plenty of disadvantages for the world as a whole, true, but there was never a better time to be a mad scientist with crazy doomsday devices. No longer limited to freelance work delivering threats to the UN, the Cold War meant governments would actually hire you to make things. Things like Project Pluto. WAS FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY FIRST SELFIE The First Photo petapixel.com A personal mission to see where and how it happened. BUSINESS AS USUAL 'Exasperated' Obama Tells Congressional Leaders He 'Will Not Negotiate' washingtonpost.com The leaders of both parties from both houses said no progress had been made after an hour and a half session in the Oval Office without any staff. Read more on Digg.com → HOPE IT'S NOT HIS LAST DOLLAR A protester covers his mouth with a dollar bill as he joins others in a demonstration in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2013 urging congress to pass the budget bill. Credit: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014