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Operator of Silk Road 2.0 Website Charged in Manhattan Federal Court

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Post by coldtea »

mpyne wrote: post #260
coldtea wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you know, he did a SLIGHT VARIATION of the "imaginary job posting", an "imaginary something else" but equally imaginary and tongue-in-cheek...

Yes, I'm sure that his "not actually the same as the joke we're talking about" joke was a mere slight variation. Maybe the Secret Service guy missed the (+5: Funny), I'm sure that happens to the best of us sometimes.

Yeah, because secret service and/or cops are known to have a great sense of humor and enough understanding of the Web (including Slashdot trivia).

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Post by psykovsky »

puredemo wrote: post #170
psykovsky wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perfect cover to run away with everyones funds :)

Apparently Cloud9 went down four minutes before SR2. So it's unlikely to be a false flag.

Yes, it seems the feds had a blast, taking down darknet markets.

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Post by greensoap »

Estragon wrote: post #242
mpyne wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. It seems as though this depends on the state you're living in and the seriousness of the crime. I'd like to know what the relevant laws are (if any) in Ohio and New York.

I don't know if any state that has mandatory reporting of all crimes based solely on knowledge. Outside of mandatory reporting of child abuse for certain individuals in specific roles (i.e. doctors, teachers, etc) so that those people report despite confidentiality obligations.

But for the average joe walking down the street and witnessing a crime there is usually no obligation to report that and they don't magically become accomplice. Most state laws in the U.S. don't impose duties like that (or even duties to help others) on its citizens.

Now, if your property is being used to commit a crime and you don't report it there might be different implications. And if you don't report it then you are going to have a difficult time proving you were involved. Guilt by association type scenario and the jury is going to likely believe you were involved. But this is not the same as becoming an accomplice because you didn't report the crime.

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Post by et2o »

opendais wrote: post #254
et2o wrote: post #167

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@opendais: I'm still confused where the drone strike is happening.

Let us say you decide to hide out in Cambodia while operating servers in Iran. The point is where isn't important. Given a large enough market, the US would do whatever was needed to catch you. :P

This is perhaps pedantic, but the US is also not going to order a drone strike in Cambodia.
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