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Perhaps, but that kind of joke gets made all the time on the Internet without bringing down black helicopters.
I made a joke like that on Slashdot once and the black helicopters did show up. Well, the Secret Service, anyway.
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What if you don't take a cut of the transaction? If there's some flat fee that people pay regardless of whether there is an illegal drug transaction, is that then a conspiracy?
Perhaps not, but if you know (or reasonably should know) that a crime is being committed and then don't report it, now you're an accomplice to the crime. It's hard to miss all the ads for drugs on SR2.0, so it would be very easy to prove that charge at the very least. And as we've seen in the past, Federal prosecutors tend to be very inventive, and the law tends to be rather expansive for these types of things, it wo…
> if you know (or reasonably should know) that a crime is
> being committed and then don't report it, now you're an
> accomplice to the crime.
I'd like to know what the relevant laws are (if any) in Ohio and New York.
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I made a joke like that on Slashdot once and the black helicopters did show up. Well, the Secret Service, anyway.
You satirically quoted an imaginary job posting and Secret Service showed up? That sucks, I guess we need to close down Duffel Blog and The Onion then.
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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…
>> made a down payment of approximately $70,000 in Bitcoins towards the purchase of a Tesla Model S Way to lay low.
How is the FBI going to handle an inevitably popular decentralized marketplace? Will they prosecute anyone who downloads the marketplace software onto their computer? All the pieces are in place for a true p2p marketplace. It doesn't exist yet, but it will soon. EDIT: I should read about OpenBazaar.
Of course they will still go after the large sellers and such using traditional investigative techniques.
What are the chances that the FBI set up a number of "copy-cat-silk-road" hidden services, immediately after seizing the original? That would provide them ample opportunity to 1) build a profile of everyone who used them, then 2) shut them down with an intimidating "sting," dampening the desire of potential copy-copy-cats.
The text has been copy-pasted in this comment [0]. The source is from item 28a on page 13 of the complaint[1].
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Silkroad 3.0 will probably be this: https://openbazaar.org/ Good luck in taking that down.
Interesting. Are you claiming that OpenBazaar will be free of bugs, exploits, side-channel attacks, etc? Have you done an analysis of the code? Got a link?
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WANTED: rockstar programmer for new e-commerce startup. still in stealth mode, but think silk road with less php and more rails. bitcoin experience/enthusiasm a plus. message for details. no feds please.
Better watch out, law enforcement isn't exactly known for their sense of humour.