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Not being too familiar with the Tor network, how hard will it be for the government to shut this site down? I mean, it will have to be problematic if they can'
by zbanks 15y ago
Not being too familiar with the Tor network, how hard will it be for the government to shut this site down?
I mean, it will have to be problematic if they can't even get an IP, right?
And they obviously can't get Bitcoins directly...
- catnip 15y agoIt's simple. I will monitor your networks and if I see somthing that looks like TOR(omg) I send my police buddys to shoot you in the face.
- eqdw 15y agoExactly. It would be exceedingly difficult to locate the silk road server, but trivially easy to find someone who was going to it
- weavejester 15y agoNo it wouldn't. You can determine if someone is running Tor, but not which sites they are visiting with it. That's sort of the whole point.
- weavejester 15y agoYou can't shut down a Tor hidden service without compromising or shutting down the entire Tor network. Same deal with Bitcoins.
- VMG 15y agoI think maybe the endpoints can be targeted where bitcoin is traded into dollar. But I have a limited understanding.
- seanalltogether 15y agoThe goods have to be shipped from somewhere to somewhere. How hard would it be for the feds to find the origin of the packages?
- zbanks 15y agoIts tough separating the wheat from the chaff. Presumably, Silk Road merchants aren't the first to ship drugs: it's pretty tough to detect without slowing everything down.