This article takes a look at the website Silk Road, which has recently come into the focus of two US Senators Charles Schumer and Joe Manchin, in June 2011. The Senators called for the Drug Enforcement Administration to shut down the website, which facilitates the buying and selling of illegal drugs – such as heroin, cocaine and meth – completely anonymously. Silk Road is able to hide the identities of its users through the Tor anonymity network, along with the use of bitcoins, which are an untraceable peer-to-peer [...]