Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:55:02AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:

We know silk road was attacked with spam and malware. That it was

We know that Freedom Hosting platform was compromised, and dropped malware via a known vulnerability in the TBB. We do not know how exactly TSR was taken down. There are reasons to suspect that the official story might be a parallel construct.

attacked with spam, suggests that malware did not suffice.

The rise in Tor traffic well predates the events, and seems to be entirely attributable to C&C traffic of a botnet.