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

[Lemuel Underwing]

I'm not in the least bit sorry for this guy, howw-eevver all this crap
about him posting such and such with his real name stinks to high heaven
of  "The NSA is coordinating their data with the FBI & DEA, and they needed
to create a story to make it stick"...?


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Christopher Simon
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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.
>  ------------------------------
> 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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