Well, for one, you can get forensics from the packages. They may be good, but I wonder if they're perfect. It's likely that they use similar methods most of t

Well, for one, you can get forensics from the packages. They may be good, but I wonder if they're perfect. It's likely that they use similar methods most of the time. If you're flooding them with fake sellers, it's going to be hard for new sellers to gain rep. Especially if you're leaving fake feedback, too. By 'informants' I mean that you take over their Silk Road account and sell with their reputation. Turning people one at a time isn't useless if you make people afraid to use the site or to trust new sellers, then each seller you bust leaves them one less trusted place to turn to. Reputation systems only work if there's a trusted authority to decide them or if there's more legit feedback than fake. It's not as though there are no ways to create fake accounts en masse. And it's not like a TOR hidden service can tell where the accounts are being spam registered from. Overall, it's a cat-and-mouse game, but I don't see why it's fundamentally intractable.