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

[Christopher Simon]

If the Silk Road actually had some security flaw, it would have been raided and its members (or at least vendors) arrested a long time ago. All of the arrests I am aware of (including DPRs) were due to human error, many of them irl. People will learn from their mistakes, I'm sure. Anyways, I find it very interesting that the Silk Road seizure has had very little effect on bitcoin prices. They were back over $120USD on MtGox within hours, and have stayed there.

-----Original Message-----
From: "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com>
Sent: ‎10/‎2/‎2013 9:09 PM
To: "Christopher Simon" <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>
Cc: "Lemuel Underwing" <luunderwing at gmail.com>; "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: So "Silk Road", the black-market Tor-Hosted site on that DeepWeb?Just went down

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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