At 01:43 AM 6/12/2011, Jeffrey Paul wrote:
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".
Surprisingly, there are lots of techies who can't spell (you'd think a field that requires deep attention to grammars and syntaxes in artificial languages would primarily attract people who can do the same in natural languages, but it's been obvious for decades that that's not close to universal), and there are techies whose native language isn't English, and there are spell checkers that will fix misspelled words inaccurately because they're not looking at grammar.) And even if you can only access the service using Tor, that doesn't mean you can't set up Tor wrong, which was one of his points. And while he mentioned that that kilo of coke you're being shipped may be coming from somebody the Feds are watching, people dealing in that kind of volume are more likely to be careful. But people buying personal-use retail quantities of drugs, like the guy buying that 10-strip of acid? They're more likely to be buying it from somebody who's not careful, or for that matter the dealer may be a Fed or an informant.