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You can buy a Tesla with Bitcoins?
Sure, you could theoretically buy a used Tesla with Bitcoins. But it may be hard to find a dealer willing to do that. There was a story a while ago about someone buying a Tesla with Bitcoins, but it ended up being incorrect. The Bitcoins were exchanged for US Dollars which were then used to buy the car: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101258152
I wonder how is it "Homeland Security". Looks like this confirms "Homeland Security" is completely coopted into War on Drugs. Not that after this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/peekaboo-i-see-you-gov... there was any doubt, but basically every time they talk about doing something to fight terrorism, it's probably means drug enforcement.
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> By the way: If the FBI is so successful using traditional police tactics to infiltrate "cybercrime syndicates," why do they need a "front door" to our devices? Just like the old-fashioned police work they did here which you mentioned, the FBI in the past has been able to use warrants to obtain unilateral access to safe deposit boxes, drill open personal safes stored at home, search through a person's desks, closets…
> The cryptographic technology necessary to do so already exists, in a way that would limit access to the manufacturer, so that's not the issue. This is a genuine question: Does it really? Everything I've read on the topic has shown that that's not really the case, at least not without implementing it in such a way that it has some rather serious human weaknesses anyway. However, I'm rather ignorant on the topic, so…
Even easier might be to have the device itself store an encrypted version of the data storage key, encrypted to a PKI private key that only the manufacturer controls (i.e. leave a GPG-encrypted file accessible in an unencrypted partition that unlocks the rest of the storage). Since we're assuming that skilled hackers will forcibly encrypt sensitive data anyways by jailbreaking if needed, it's not that much of an additional stretch to leave the key on the device itself, and FBI can still get warrants served on the 99.9% of accused criminals who can't be arsed to figure out that their iPhone can be unlocked.
I'm not even close to a crypto expert either, someone with deep insight into the crypto literature (I hear NSA has a few of those...) could undoubtedly point to more applicable research that would be useful here.
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> Once they track it, they will get your hosting provider to cooperate and before you know it, This is the whackamole I was talking about. The time between when they identify the server and getting the provider to comply is enough in certain countries to set up an alternative location. Hosting companies aren't gonna want to play this game forever, ESPECIALLY if they're getting good money out of it.
So you'd just move servers every X months no matter what, or would you be tipped off somehow during that time window? If it's the first, that's pretty hardcore. Migrations are a pain for most people. Unless the system was built to migrate painlessly... Hm.
Use Docker to wrap up the front-end and make it easy and portable. You can then spin up a new iteration of the site on a new VPS in a matter of moments. It can download the DB entries from that blockchain, decrypt, and then keep the DB in memcache/redis. To speed things up, you can also do daily encrypted DB dumps to a DHT address and write the DHT address into the blockchain to bootstrap the service restart.
Once the DB is bootstrapped and caught up, the site can register itself on the Onion network and since it'll be the newest entry, traffic will start ending up at the new site pretty quickly.
Such a system could be automated pretty quickly where a person could register VPS's at Linode, Digital Ocean, AWS, etc. Then write some kind of encrypted config file into a blockchain so the site software would pull down the config and make the transition to the new provider automatically. Could be an automated daily move and by using a blockchain as an intermediary for communications it prevents worries about making mistakes with accidentally leaking IP addresses at each new service provider.
They located Silk Road 2.0's server in an unspecified way, not directly related to their undercover agent on the support staff. Given that two other darknet markets (Black Market and Cloud9) have been shut down today, and they didn't specify how they located the SR2 server, it seems plausible that law enforcement have a vulnerability to locate servers over the Tor network. From the complaint: "In or about May 2014, t…
Interesting read, some highlights from the complaint: "40. Based on a review of records provided by the service provider for the Silk Road 2.0 Server (the “Provider”), I have discovered that the server was controlled and maintained during the relevant time by an individual using the email account “blake@benthall.net” (“Benthall Email Account-1")." "b. I have also reviewed a publicly available profile of “Blake Bentha…
Hello browser fingerprinting, not a theoretical concern anymore I guess.
>>> and Peter Edge, Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), I wonder how is it "Homeland Security". Looks like this confirms "Homeland Security" is completely coopted into War on Drugs. Not that after this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/peekaboo-i-see-you-gov... there was any doubt, but basically every time they talk about doing something to fight terrorism, it's probably mea…
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Sure, you could theoretically buy a used Tesla with Bitcoins. But it may be hard to find a dealer willing to do that. There was a story a while ago about someone buying a Tesla with Bitcoins, but it ended up being incorrect. The Bitcoins were exchanged for US Dollars which were then used to buy the car: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101258152
You can't buy a Tesla from a dealer. There are no Tesla dealers.
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I'm not sure if they did, "in this investigation". I was commenting more on the general tone of US agencies, since the PATRIOT ACT, and their contradictions of what is breaking the law when it applies to them vs. whomever they are investigating.
Commenting more on the general tone of US agencies, since changing the law to specifically allow an expanded set of investigatory techniques , is them "breaking the law"? What? You can argue they shouldn't have such authorities, but when the law explicitly gives them authority it's foolish to then claim they're breaking the law when using those same authorities.
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This sounds no different than the undercover police, detective work the FBI has been doing since its establishment. Infiltrate the perp, take him down. They used the same tactics on gangs, mobs, etc. Now violent crime is slowing, but they have hoardes of agents trained in these protocols, so they're redirecting energy into catching so called "cybercriminals." A bunch of people who infiltrated the mob are now infitrat…
> A bunch of people who infiltrated the mob are now infitrating groups of nerds in basements. It's frustratingly hilarious. I'm a little skeptical of this whole shtick that online criminals are just "nerds in basements." A nerd can do a lot more damage to your life with a computer than your average petty criminal.
While the drug trade can cause people to become victims (just as the legal trade in alcohol or cigarettes or many other commodities), such victimhood is incidental to the production and consumption of the illicit good rather than inherent to it. I think this distinction between what sorts of contraband could be traded on Silk Road (even if it was not adhered to in practice) is a big part of why many people were/are sympathetic towards Silk Road.
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On the community I have no idea, but I imagine the next reincarnation of these type of markets will have to be managed by lone wolfs out of a cave in Afghanistan.
in all seriousness perhaps iranian hosts would be a viable route