Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
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Re: Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
#2Sounds like the police got lucky at customs. Apparently, "buy local" is a must when it comes to drugs.
Re: Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
#3There appears to be a lot of interest in the SR and not a lot of actual success in cracking down. One guy is a tiny drop in the bucket of that site.
Re: Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
#4Sounds like the police got lucky at customs. Apparently, "buy local" is a must when it comes to drugs.
Exactly my thoughts. The quote from the manager of crime operations made me laugh:
> "Criminals are attempting to exploit the international mail system through online networks, but the recent arrest demonstrates that we are one step ahead of them."
Yes, you intercepted one transaction. Congratulations.
Re: Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
#5Pause for a moment and consider that one can purchase narcotics from an anonymised network using virtual money. There's no need to read speculative science fiction these days, you can just read the news.
Re: Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
#6Apparently SR forums gained almost 5000 new users last month.
The numbers from the store are unknown, and also I'm pretty sure it is very difficult to get a realistic volume from the sales.
Re: Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
#7Pause for a moment and consider that one can purchase narcotics from an anonymised network using virtual money. There's no need to read speculative science fiction these days, you can just read the news.
Those drugs still have to be shipped via a real postal system. Speculative scifi suggests that I will have a machine in my house that will produce drugs on the fly, with chemical reactions that are controlled by software.
Re: Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
#8So he was caught importing drugs, told the police he ordered them from the Silk Road and therefor the police are cracking down on the Silk Road.
Re: Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
#9Pause for a moment and consider that one can purchase narcotics from an anonymised network using virtual money. There's no need to read speculative science fiction these days, you can just read the news.
Those drugs still have to be shipped via a real postal system. Speculative scifi suggests that I will have a machine in my house that will produce drugs on the fly, with chemical reactions that are controlled by software.
So the drugs are 3d-printed? Maybe in pill form?
Re: Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction
#10I never know from stories like this if law enforcement are hopelessly clueless or if they do know what they're doing but just not releasing details.
While the tech is probably secure it's easy for people to make mistakes that leak information; and while NSA or GCHQ probably find it easy to get that information they have no interest in doing so. So, do police agencies have people who know enough about the mistakes people make with Tor and Bitcoin?