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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 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. ;)

Did the media industry shut down Bittorrent yet? Nope. Did the IT sec community was able to shut down Conficker after it went peer-to-peer? Nope. So going peer-to-peer is actually pretty invincible with today's methods I would say (although I am not an expert!) The question is whether or not they can implement the details well enough in this peer-to-peer market.

Re: DarkMarket: The Silk Road successor police can’t shut down

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

If any government is willing to get you specifically your odds are always quite low, no matter if you understand IT security or not. It suddenly becomes a whole life matter. And not even terrorists with money and armies can hide completely and forever from a bigger government like the US.

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.

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