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- xpxhxoxexnxixx
is now no more.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2…"U.S. law enforcement authorities raided an Internet site..."
They should re-read that one more time.
I kinda love the fact that things like cocaine were invented and pushed into this country by the very same people that have had an agenda to arrest people for it.
I can't speak for whatever else was sold on their, but its clear to me that:
A) For such a 'great' intelligence community, this took way too long to accomplish.
B) It should become clear that the larger picture here is 'how' the site ran, and not what was on it. They will never recover any of the drugs, weapons, etc. To me, this was a way to throw dirt on bitcoins, or any virtual currency, and say look what people are doing with it. They've been afraid and weary of change since day one. This is no different.Im not advocating the sales of drugs or weapons here, im just saying it could have been selling Legos. Doesn't matter.
I would have assumed that it was behind a good TOR practice, but then again, at some point, those bitcoins needed to be converted to real dollars. So im not really sure how this played out.
On to the next one..
- prophetone0
if the gov't is now on vacation, can these guys can put in for raiding overtime?
- can type not properly can?prophetone
- you typed it finemonospaced
- xpxhxoxexnxixx0
yeah, some vacation. i guess this was still considered an 'essential' part of the govt to keep on running. The country is in massive debt and they cant agree on how to spend their imaginary money. But we can arrest a guy for having a site that uses imaginary monies!
- yurimon0
I can't imagine that he would say or do anything out of his location. I think it seems politically convenient to get this guy. would be interesting to see the evidence if not suppressed. It pretty common for these guys to testi-lie.
- xpxhxoxexnxixx0
Several things to note
- he used the same handle on multiple sites to advertise SR (which is true)
- TOR, as we know it was created by America, so itd be stupid to think they still dont have their hands in itAND, the most ironic part here, it was the Canadian's that caught him. they opened his mail (oh how lucky for them they opened the right one by chance!) and found fake ID's.
That being said, yes, it is quite convenient now. I dont believe in coincidence anymore when it comes to US events.
- Question is if he had tech expertise to pull this off?. someone had to set up everything with the server..yurimon
- albums0
Legos? No. It's Lego toys or Lego bricks.
- lego my eggo, bro.lvl_13
- OG Legos my dude. not that new crap.
xpxhxoxexnxixx - ask Lego, dude, "Legos" isn't in the company vocabularyalbums
- you missed my point. Legos as in 'i bought some Legos'. do you ever go 'oh bricks or toys?' i meant Legos as anything but drugs & weapons. Not as exact terminology.xpxhxoxexnxixx
- the plural of lego is legokota
- its still "legos", go play with your barbies.moldero
- Legolas?sem
- scarabin0
here's current info on the silk road subreddit fallout page
- scarabin0
this is gonna make a great movie
- I see several possible versions. the victim rebel version and how great the surveillance state is versionyurimon
- this.Krassy
- http://www.qbn.com/t…ukit2
- capn_ron0
somehow this reminds me of napster but on a whole different level. They just want the main guy so they can send a message. It just means there will be another option opening up soon. I really wanted to buy some stuff from this site but never got the balls to go through with it.
- utopian0
And how long did it take for the CIA/FBI/Homeland Security to catch Osama bin Laden again?
- i have no idea, and i would bet 95% of everyone else has no idea either. did they know and not do anything? did they have him dead to rights before? did they really not know until that one week? who knows. We knew Ramsi Yousef was part of all that and let him go too. so...xpxhxoxexnxixx
- fiver0
- "The website is run on what is known as the "Onion router" or "Tor" network, which makes it "practically impossible" to physically locate the computers hosting or accessing websites on the network, the affidavit said." --yeah, unless you are working with the people that invented it.xpxhxoxexnxixx
- ukit20
What makes you think they just want the main guy? From Reddit link:
"It's unstated from when the investigation started, but they received a complete copy of the Silk Road web server on the 23rd of July 2013. This was all done under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, which implies that they had access to current site information up until the point they shut the site down. This included user account and transaction information. It's unclear whether or not this covers addresses and other sensitive transaction information."
I'd be surprised if they don't go after the major sellers.
- es possible. i just guessing they want to send a message to others to not do thiscapn_ron
- i can't remember, did big sharers get busted when napster went down?capn_ron
- You're talking about sharing MP3s vs selling coke and heroinukit2
- I'd be surprised if they turned a blind eye but who knowsukit2
- both are federal crimes, but you have a point. just conversing here.capn_ron
- orrinward20
Hmm. I've not used SR in a very long time but have always checked it every few months just to see what the marketplace looked like.
Though I've not bought anything I'd need to use SR for in years I'm sad to see it and Atlantis going under. When I was at University it was the best source for high quality, low adulterant product.
Instead of "Yeah man this is boomting MD" you would get a percentage purity and I'd never received a product that was falsely advertised. I remember using a test-kit on my first purchase and it was better than advertised.
- ukit20
For some reason I had the impression that SR was run by a network of people and that like TPB it was pretty much impossible to take offline. Maybe that was just a myth the guy running it encouraged.
- ukit20
- oh the irony...xpxhxoxexnxixx
- AKA perfect political patsy.yurimon
- whatthefunk0
http://stackoverflow.com/questio…
Frosty’s account lives on at Stack Overflow, where you can inspect his code and pass judgment on his chops if you’re so inclined. And while this won’t appear anywhere in the criminal charges against Ulbricht, the court of computer-programmer opinion may duly note that he asked two questions on the site, but didn’t take the trouble to answer anyone else’s.- profile views: 6,234dbloc
- I don't see his name anywhere? They said he accidentally posted his name?utopian
- then changed to frosty seconds laterwhatthefunk
- zaq0
Silk Road 2.0 anyone?
- ernexbcn0
RIP.