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in all seriousness perhaps iranian hosts would be a viable route
In all seriousness, is there any legal precedent for seizing/shooting down satellites?
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So, it seems possible to build a p2p based market. I'm pretty sure I read something about there already being one. Like, a distributed network based market where sales and buys are processed by users, much in the way bitcoin does, or torrenting. Then the network could be accessed by clients, even web based ones. Perhaps. Like i2p based markets? Which can even be accessed over tor?
like this? https://openbazaar.org/
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This is a lot of major crimes investigations: if you want to participate in an organized criminal effort (which is what SR2.0 is), you're only as secure as the weakest link in that effort. Worth remembering when SR3.0 comes out. Is it being run by someone else who will put out a hit on a rival, or plow $70k of revenue into a Model S.
Silkroad 3.0 will probably be this: https://openbazaar.org/ Good luck in taking that down.
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> 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.
True, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will. One of the smarter things about Silk Road in my view was the nominal policy of disallowing trade in child pornography, criminal services, stolen credit card data and so on, ie illicit things that also have (or are intended to have) victims who are necessarily injured as a condition of production. There's no economic tipping point at which the consumption of child por…
Which isn't to say they're allergic to profit, but since its closer to an open-market they can no longer rely on being the only game in town. Testimony from buyers on the dark markets shows that some dealers even include free drugs, which is completely unheard of.
If the cocaine cowboys of the 70s and 80s were the first wave and the crack kingpins of the 90s were the second wave, then the cyber vendors are the third wave drug dealers.
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This is a lot of major crimes investigations: if you want to participate in an organized criminal effort (which is what SR2.0 is), you're only as secure as the weakest link in that effort. Worth remembering when SR3.0 comes out. Is it being run by someone else who will put out a hit on a rival, or plow $70k of revenue into a Model S.
Silkroad 3.0 will probably be this: https://openbazaar.org/ Good luck in taking that down.
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So, it seems possible to build a p2p based market. I'm pretty sure I read something about there already being one. Like, a distributed network based market where sales and buys are processed by users, much in the way bitcoin does, or torrenting. Then the network could be accessed by clients, even web based ones. Perhaps. Like i2p based markets? Which can even be accessed over tor?
like this? https://openbazaar.org/
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I'm wondering why they would image the server. Did SR2 not use full disc encryption using LUKS? How would they be able to access anything on it, I know if I were running SR2 I'd have the longest private key ever stored in my brain to decrypt the drives.
> I'm wondering why they would image the server. For offline analysis and to be used as evidence, presumably. > Did SR2 not use full disc encryption using LUKS? (...) longest private key ever So the process for you would be slightly different: There would be a "power outage" in your rack, your encrypted disk would be imaged and (unencrypted) bootloader would be bugged. Then they'd wait for you to see that your server…
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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.
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