So "Silk Road", the black-market Tor-Hosted site on that Deep Web?Just went down

[John Bailey]

Around these parts the police seem to make fairly regular arrests of
Silk Road users. I can't believe people think there are still corners
of the internet that can't be found (and I've spoken to people who've
used Silk Road and am still startled by the level of trust they place
in things like that).

I can only imagine how much more thorough the US feds would be about
this, given the whole NSA dealio.

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Christopher Simon
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are lots of unanswered question about this. Particularly concerning
> the Silk Road watermark on the seizure graphic. Something makes me think
> some kind of kill switch went off to protect the users once DPR was arrested
> and didn't upkeep the site (x hours of time without checking in, etc.)
> ________________________________
> From: Lemuel Underwing
> Sent: 10/2/2013 7:19 PM
> To: “pynchon-l at waste.org“
> Subject: So "Silk Road", the black-market Tor-Hosted site on that Deep
> Web?Just went down
>
> and I actually met the guy who ran it (didn't know it at the time), he was
> relatively well known in the party-scene around Austin... I remember getting
> really blitzed and talking to him about tCoL49, curiously enough... turns
> out he was involved in some dark, dark shit...
>
> http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-ross-ulbricht-the-brilliant-alleged-mastermind-of-silk-road-2013-10
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