[tor-talk] Feds shutter online narcotics store that used TOR to hide its tracks

Phillip equusaustralus at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 14:06:53 UTC 2012


I agree only to a certain extent. Paypal and Western Union are easily
traceable. If it was that easy to track down Tor and BitCoin users, Silk
Road would have fallen as well.

However, even with BitCoin, it may be possible to pin down transactions,
or at least narrow the list down considerably. Once you get a foothold,
it can be relatively straight forward to trace the origins (or
destination) of the BitCoins to an exchange...

Interesting and scary read in any case!


> Am 17.04.2012 14:28, schrieb Eugen Leitl:
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/feds-shutter-online-narcotics-store-that-used-tor-to-hide-its-tracks.ars
>>
>>
>> Feds shutter online narcotics store that used TOR to hide its tracks
>
> And these criminals probably also used the postal service to transfer
> the drugs. So what? Always go for the weakest link which probably
> wasn't Tor.
>
> Tichodroma
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