It doesn't make sense.
They mean the computer that was hosting it?
And they had no backups of the bot/code anywhere else?
It really doesn't make sense.....
what if the bot was a police bot, made only for reveal the criminals? i could see soemthing like this happen easily, then they go out and say stupid thing like bot is confiscated ecc... to mask the thing
I don't think the police have coded/wrote an 'illegal bot' to purchase illegal things on the deep web only to catch the criminals, most probably it was written by someone else (and maybe you can find a copy of this bot in the deep web, I am sure but I have not searched it)
was just a guess, because i remembered that some agents were disguised themselves as users in the dark web to expose the criminals pedophiles
it's possible that they are doing the same with bitcoin criminals