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What do you mean?

• jacques_chester 12y ago
  I mean that making categorical statements is marketing 101. Tell people what they want to hear. People want to hear that they can trade illegally with zero risk of being caught: so tell them that. No need to sully people's minds with tedious details like the risk of design flaws, the risk of implementation flaws, dealers giving you up in a plea deal, undercover agents ... etc etc etc. The most important lesson of security is that it is about probabilities, not certainties. You can only ever secure yourself against attackers with a given level of motivation and resources. When you brag about your security, you create a more motivated attacker. And the FBI is pretty well-resourced, as attackers go.
  • etherael 12y ago
    I see, actually there's a popular thread in the bitcoin subreddit petitioning to change the name to "FreeMarket" to escape the negative connotations of "DarkMarket", so it seems a lot of people see it as a marketing failure rather than success. I partially agree with you even though I want to see the state destroyed. Goading them to attack will likely result in consequences for some of the people using the tool, but it's also a way to put active hostile pressure on the attack surfaces as well to quickly show any security flaws.