Operator of Silk Road 2.0 Website Charged in Manhattan Federal Court

Post by acveilleux » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 7:58 PM UTC

haakon wrote: post #35

DNM_throwaway wrote: post #30

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Since the bigger markets (Evo and Agora) aren't down (as of yet) I think it's probably not a general vulnerability that works for every site. If it did I would assume they would go after the biggest markets too, not the smaller ones who were already mostly dead.

They could have located the servers, but not the administrators because they don't do stupid stuff like connect to their servers directly. Perhaps they're just waiting for the admins to make a mistake. Taking down the servers without arresting anyone just isn't the same.

Post by shitehawk » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 8:09 PM UTC

vstp wrote: post #103

shitehawk wrote: post #81

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And there is no shortage of people who think they can outsmart the FBI, but one slip and there goes your life. I sleep better working for a living.

So did the conformed slave.

Post by owenmarshall » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 8:10 PM UTC

msandford wrote: post #101

owenmarshall wrote: post #79

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> If you do something with the knowledge that someone might be breaking the law but you have no specific knowledge, it's going to be very difficult to make a case for conspiracy. That's not correct. The conscious avoidance doctrine basically says that you aren't allowed to be an ostrich: deliberately taking steps to shield yourself from knowing about a crime leaves you as liable as having knowledge of the crime. Addi…

What if it's used to sell drugs from someone to someone else inside a country where both buying and selling drugs is legal? I know that's a stretch, but hell, we're legalizing drugs all across our own country as we speak. In another election cycle or two the feds might well be fighting the states in every state.

Post by rhino369 » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 8:18 PM UTC

avn2109 wrote: post #82

yourad_io wrote: post #65

I cannot imagine a way in which a single-server hidden service is safe from a global, active adversary like FBI, NSA & Friends. This [1] discusses passive analysis over time. Isn't it really easy to locate one if you can perform active attacks on the global infrastructure? (introduce latencies and/or break links temporarily) If your hidden service is served by a couple of mirrors on each continent, though... then may…

Good point. Noises have been made for a long time that Tor is compromised given a sufficiently motivated adversary. For instance, [0], among many others. In light of those noises, my non-rhetorical question is this: Why would any Ulbright wannabe reside within the US DoJ's sphere of influence? Get thee to Russia, and quickly! And while you're at it, keep your hardware in some third, fourth, and fifth locations, neith…

Post by waterlesscloud » Thu, Nov 06, 2014, 8:19 PM UTC

danielki wrote: post #128

kazazes wrote: post #17

I won't link to them directly, but his accounts on most social networks are not deactivated, are publicly viewable and all mention bitcoin in the bio. In the wake of DPR 1.0 I find this a bit hubristic.

That's not the worst of it - the criminal complaint mentions that the server was registered to the email address blake@benthall.net. If that's not a giant "hey, feds, come and get me", I don't know what is. It also mentions that most of the accounts (Bitcoin wallet and other) that he used were all under his real name.