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It's just a matter of time -- measured in weeks to months, not years -- before a new Silk Road emerges. And the creator of the next one will not be silly enough
by a-priori 13y ago
It's just a matter of time -- measured in weeks to months, not years -- before a new Silk Road emerges. And the creator of the next one will not be silly enough to allow themselves to be traced by a Stack Overflow post.
- paps 13y agoIt has already happened: Sheep Marketplace, http://sheep5u64fi457aw.onion http://sheep5u64fi457aw.onion Most SR vendors are transitionning to this site. Or it's just a big honeypot.
- pallandt 13y agoI think you're right. A relevant thread from Reddit if anyone's interested: http://www.reddit.com/r/SheepMarketplace/comments/1nsmzx/a_friendly_warning_sheepmarketplacecoms_owner/ http://www.reddit.com/r/SheepMarketplace/comments/1nsmzx/a_f...
- stcredzero 13y agoA big honeypot is what the government should put in place before the bust, if it is really on the ball. I'm sure the probability of that is far from 1.
- gwern 13y agoSheep was set up back in like May (the exact dates aren't clear because no one was paying attention), so if it's a honeypot, it was a very far-sighted one. Personally, I strongly doubt it's a honeypot because the Czechs who run it are less competent than LE would be.
- philangist 13y agoWhat makes you say they're incompetent?
- gwern 13y agoThe clearnet version of Sheep has already been closely linked to them. Being in Czechslovakia may impede the investigation, but I still would not want to be using it...
- TylerE 13y agoI think the difference is that now innocence has been lost. SR seemed so invulnerable. I think the biggest revelation out of the whole thing is that people for a long assumed that just because they got their vacuum-sealed drugs that they weren't, in fact, being "caught".
- nether 13y agoIt's going to be a game of whack-a-mole until the US govt infiltrates enough Tor nodes. Which will happen I think, eventually.