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The web server probably wasn't visible on the public internet, but apparently the machine itself was.

• philip1209 12y ago
  "And when they entered that IP address directly into a browser, the Silk Road’s CAPTCHA prompt appeared, the garbled-letter image designed to prevent spam bots from entering the site."
  • scintill76 12y ago
    Ouch. In retrospect, seems like they could have almost brute-forced it, if they had a narrow enough block of IP addresses they thought it was in. Fetch the root page on all the IP addresses looking for something that looks like SR.
    • TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
      You could probably do that for the entire internet, assuming you had their levels of resources.
      • spiritplumber 12y ago
        Isn't that what the NSA does?
      • CJefferson 12y ago
        You could do that in the comfort of your own home, with a decent Internet connection (for example with https://zmap.io/ https://zmap.io/)
  • jagger27 12y ago
    Woops, missed that line.