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The silk road guy logged into his servers without Tor... Ulbricht just happened to do a particularly shit job hiding. On the other hand the operator of Dream M
by FDSGSG 6y ago
The silk road guy logged into his servers without Tor... Ulbricht just happened to do a particularly shit job hiding.
On the other hand the operator of Dream Market is still free, after operating his site for almost 7(!) years.
- bpodgursky 6y agoNot really true. Ulbricht messed up, possibly just once: > The connection was made by linking the username "altoid", used during Silk Road's early days to announce the website, and a forum post in which Ulbricht, posting under the nickname "altoid", asked for programming help and gave his email address, which contained his full name. It's really hard to live a digital life for a decade and not once accidentally break opsec between your public and private lives.
- kortilla 6y agoIt’s not hard if you start out assuming you’re going to be wanted by the government at some point. The problem is when you stumble into crime much later and have a bunch of online identity you have to dissociate from cold turkey.
- FDSGSG 6y agoIt really is true. Ulbricht repeatedly made the incomprehensible mistake of logging into SR servers without using Tor. He would've been caught sooner or later because of just that. He even used his own photo on the fake IDs for SR server rentals!
- hanniabu 6y agoAren't around half of the exit nodes run by the NSA? If that's the case then tor wouldn't help much.
- FDSGSG 6y ago100% of the exit nodes could be run by the NSA and Tor would still help much, exit nodes are supposed to be untrusted. I think the fact that (most?) DNM operators keep getting away with it is great evidence that nation states don't have very good visibility into the Tor network.
- Consultant32452 6y agoThe Pirate Bay has been operating out in the open for two decades.