Silk Road founder arrested ...

[Juan Garofalo]

--On Wednesday, October 02, 2013 3:37 PM -0400 Ted Smith <tedks at riseup.net> 
wrote:

>> Well not so fast there, without slip by operator being reported, that
>> guy in Ireland operating a ToR focussed mini-ISP got identified, and/or
>> his clients did and it spilled over on to him, or whatever happened.
>> (That one based on some browser bug and jscript attack inserted by law
>> enforcement somehow).  High grade security is not for the careless -
>> need to follow advise, eg ToR browser bundle and scripts off or such?
>
> The "slip" in this case is that the services were hacked. Tor (neither
> TOR, nor ToR) wasn't compromised.
>

	And the source for that claim is...?




> Notice that without tools like Tor, organized cybercriminals have been
> doing things like hosting child pornography for decades now. They do it
> with tradecraft and occasionally botnets. What does that say about this
> thread of argument (predicating the "legitimacy" of bitcoin on its
> ability to be compromised)?
>
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> Sent from Ubuntu
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