The thing that struck me as the most odd about this article was the assertion that keeping a hidden service securely hidden must be easy, because the TOR websit

The thing that struck me as the most odd about this article was the assertion that keeping a hidden service securely hidden must be easy, because the TOR website's Wiki article on it is so short. I think it's clear that there isn't that much proven experience out there in keeping a hidden service secure against a determined and well-funded adversary, and what experience there is probably hasn't made it to the TOR Wiki page for various reasons. Just the last HN article on this generated dozens of comments with various best-practices for securing such a service that clearly weren't followed by Silk Road, and we're mostly amateurs at this.