4. Tor and hidden services are good enough for an ecommerce platform.

Be careful the words... this is like saying the US Gov is doing great at preventing 'terrorist' attacks simply because there haven't been any. And although I might trust Tor, it's not wise to trust a GPA such as the NSA, nor its supposed restriction on communicating with law enforcement etc against SR. Even without that, it's pretty easy to presume some reverse mail covers against the sellers are in effect. SR's only been around for a year or two. It takes at least that long for any really big sealed case to go down in public. So we truly must wait much longer in order to presume the statement in (4) is true.

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Perhaps the Silk Road people should donate to Tor. Perhaps they should fund hidden service improvements in Tor. Perhaps both.

I doubt that the Tor Project will ever acknowledge such support.

Tor cannot accept known 'illegal' money, therefore acknowledgement is moot. About the best Tor could do is be able to accept anonymous donations in the first place. Then publish a bitcoin address for donations from anyone. Then surely some unaffiliated and helpful bird would send to SR the links to that address and to this thread. Not sure, but I think at one point Tor accepted bitcoin, but then recanted. Link to paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.7139v1 _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE