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

[Antonin Scriabin]

To some extent I feel sorry for him.  The hired hitman thing probably
didn't happen, and he seemed genuinely interested at various stages in
helping others.  Of course, getting into the drug business is going to have
consequences, and in that regard it is hard to feel bad for him.


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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