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

Anon Mus my.green.lantern at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 16 17:51:57 UTC 2011


Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 08:47:09AM -0400, andrew at torproject.org wrote:
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>> 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.
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>
> Shouldn't people in Ft Meade already know where the physical host
> for the hidden service is? They probably won't tell DEA, though.
>
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Yea..sh, but if its a CIA black op then gov officials will be playing 
stupid. "Duhh.. hey Joe, we know noytin .."
> 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.
>
>   
Steady on Eugen, this is a family forum.


Joe


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