> The actual site and system seems rather simple I daresay it is. But even a simple web site hakes time and effort to build. And getting security right is alwa

> The actual site and system seems rather simple I daresay it is. But even a simple web site hakes time and effort to build. And getting security right is always non-trivial. > The other Tor merchant sites I've seen look much better than SR You may well be right; I've never used any of them. > open source won't help there. If building a new darknet ecommerce site was a simple as: sudo apt-get install silk-road don't you think there'd be more of them? The lower the barriers to entry, the sooner someone will build something the authorities can't shut down.