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

[Antonin Scriabin]

I will say this, as well.  This whole Silk Road thing is a way better story
than BE ...


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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