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

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 09:44:51AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:

> 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  

Tor is explicitly not designed to protect against a global
passive adversary (traffic/timing attacks). For such it should be reasonably
easy to locate a particular hidden service, and only slightly more
difficult to identify individual users (e.g. it makes sense to
keep http://ld3ervkde3fv2vlr.onion/forum/ around as a potential
honeypot).

> 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.
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