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So long Silk Road

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gevorg said:
Silk Road was on Level 4. 😱

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Lol level5
 
1sikbITCH said:
He organized and masterminded this massive drug market of which he skimmed his commission from every sale. How is he not involved?
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Yeah, the commission thing could be a problem. Craigslist doesn't do that, so they can claim they are just a bulletin board.
 
Wow. Even though I've been on the interwebs for close to 20 years now...there's still stuff I'm clueless about.

Bitcoin still sounds like those old programs you signed up for where you got paid money to click through adds.
 
Meh.

I browsed on TOR a few times. i never thought it was "clean". i always suspected that it was just a huge "honey pot" to be honest. I looked at silk road for pot (hear its great for chronic pain) but never did it.

I am not suprised they took it down.
 
waggy said:
Meh.

I browsed on TOR a few times. i never thought it was "clean". i always suspected that it was just a huge "honey pot" to be honest. I looked at silk road for pot (hear its great for chronic pain) but never did it.

I am not suprised they took it down.
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I actually installed a secure browser specifically to check out Silk Road just out of curiosity, but would never have actually ordered anything. Just seemed too risky.
 
So running a super illegal website in the USA and having made 80 something million you would think the time might have been right to find a new home in a non extraditing country...
 
Gunbuster said:
So running a super illegal website in the USA and having made 80 something million you would think the time might have been right to find a new home in a non extraditing country...
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Someone capable of making that decision probably wouldn't have put their real name on a forum where they talked about being the head of silk road...
 
So now if I want a pound of meth, a midget transvestite Brazilian hooker and a hit-man to whack my boss I have to visit three different sites? Life is too damn complicated.
 
I find it interesting that the "hit" may have been a double blind extortion of the guy.

1. You are a vendor on silk, see the profits rolling in for Ulbricht.
2. Create another online identity and use this new ID to email Ulbricht, saying you nabbed a vendor's list of names and addresses. Show the "proof" and now pop the blackmail.
3. Does the blackmail work? Score! No? Then...
4. Create another ID (or use an old one) and respond to Ulbricht's plea for help.
5. Arrange the "hit"
6. "Kill" the first fake ID. Close the account.
7. No more blackmail emails from this fake account. Ulbricht tries to send an email to the blackmailer's ID, gets a bounce, and pays for the successful "hit."

Score!
 
crashtestdummy said:
So the deeper I go, the more I run into pedophiles and conspiracy theorists? Yay!
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Well makes sense. There the ones most worried about getting caught!

Except for a few who just like added layers of security and connection obfuscation, the deeper you go on the internet, more and more individuals are focused on hiding their illegal or potentially illegal activity.
 
irishScott said:
I think that tor has many thousands of nodes at any given time, and anyone connecting to tor makes a unique route of 3 nodes that can shift over the course of the session.

I don't know enough to run precise math on it, but in effect the government would need to own all 3 nodes in a given route to trace a single communication, and unless they owned the exit node they wouldn't know what the communication is. The sheer probabilities involved are ridiculous, but given the popularity of silk road they probably had more connections to potentially trace, I suppose.

I'm curious as to what will happen when tor simply extends the number of nodes per connection.
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maybe that's why it took so long to bring them down?

Nobody said the project was started and executed last week. This could have been years of monitoring their traffic until the stars aligned.
 
surprisingly it took them years to make this bust, if only NSA would cooperate with FBI 🙂
 
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