<nettime> Internet Digital Black Friday: First Bitcoin "Depression" Hits

[Jeffrey Paul]

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.
>

snip

> 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

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