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

[Lemuel Underwing]

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On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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