The title is just silly and unrealistic. People said the same about silkroad, and look what happened. Saying something like this can't be shut down is like saying there's an unhackable system out there. And really, historically, these online drug markets have been much more short lived than AFK drug enterprises. They have really lived by the rules of startups in that sense. ;)
DarkMarket: The Silk Road successor police can’t shut down
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Re: DarkMarket: The Silk Road successor police can’t shut down
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The point is that hunting people down protected by TOR and privacy laws in the postal mail system, one of the few practical privacy laws left, is still technically possible, yes...but it is expensive, time consuming and requires sophisticated police work. The drug war is already failing without these huge roadblocks. It will always still be possible to exploit endpoint security. Given the resource limitations of law…
The point is, hunting people down protected by TOR and privacy laws in the postal mail system (one of the few practical privacy laws left) is technically possible...but is extremely expensive, requires sophisticated police work, and is time consuming. Good old-fashioned police work involving the postal system was how some Silk Road vendors were nabbed. It won't matter how secure your market is, if the authorities wan…
The problem is that at some point you must and want to interact with other people and each time you do that you increase the chances to leave a trace or do a mistake.