[tor-talk] US Senators Seek to Crackdown on Bitcoin

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 08:47:09AM -0400, andrew at torproject.org wrote:

> For the record, Tor has not heard from the DEA nor US Senators about Silk
> Road.  Hopefully they'll call first instead of sending SWAT teams.

Shouldn't people in Ft Meade already know where the physical host
for the hidden service is? They probably won't tell DEA, though.

Presumably, with quite a bit more work NSA could locate the real 
IP addresses of individual users as well. Though that would be more 
of interest to prolific Violent Desires posters.

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