[tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

[defcon]

NSA Calls TOR  the king of high-secure, low-latency
internet<http://www.theguardian.com/technology/internet>
 anonymity
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/nsa-gchq-attack-tor-network-encryption


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Ted Smith <tedks at riseup.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 03:22 +0000, mirimir wrote:
> > OK, I just read the Maryland complaint. It's obvious what happened.
> >
> > An FBI undercover agent contacted him, wanting to sell large
> > quantities
> > of cocaine. He found a buyer, and delegated the details to his
> > employee.
> > Said employee had full admin access to his servers.
> >
> > His employee then provided his ACTUAL PHYSICAL ADDRESS to the
> > undercover
> > FBI agent. The FBI mailed 1 Kg (very highly cut) cocaine to said
> > employee, and arrested him on receipt. Said employee soon told the FBI
> > all that he knew.
>
> The way I read it, it seemed like the address was for a SR vendor, not
> for the employee (they use the names VENDOR and EMPLOYEE in the
> complaint).
>
> How did the employee get arrested?
>
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