On 12 Jun, 2011, at 10:31 , Eugen Leitl wrote:
Take Silk Road, for example -- the topic of a recent Gawker piece. An IP accesses this site, which is known for selling narcotics illegal in the U.S. If this is a user's direct IP, anyone who can sniff the traffic of the site can trace that user back to their home address, assuming cooperation of the internet service provider.
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That said, there's numerous ways your privacy could be compromised if your buying drugs or performing elicit activities. Some points of possible attack include:
This guy doesn't know that The Silk Road is a hidden service that can _only_ be accessed via Tor - and he further doesn't know the difference between "elicit" and "illicit". Why are we reading him, again? -jp -- ======================================================== Jeffrey Paul -datavibe- sneak@datavibe.net +1 (800) 403-1126 http://sneak.datavibe.net 5539AD00 DE4C42F3 AFE11575 052443F4 DF2A55C2 "Virtue is its own punishment." ========================================================