"Yesterday, I was commenting how this Silk Road online party-drug website smelled of a setup, and that relying on TOR to anonymize your connections to that site might be compromised if TOR, like Silk Road,. is a covert goverment operation. Now it appears that TOR is indeed a covert government project, offering the illusion of anonymity but in actually likely tracking senders and receivers of private messages." -- Wake the Flock Up
FLASHBACK:
"Senators want drug website shut down" by Associated Press / June 6, 2011
ALBANY, N.Y. — Two US senators said yesterday they will ask federal authorities to crack down on a secretive narcotics market operated on the Internet with anonymous sales and untraceable digital currency.
Heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamines are among the drugs being sold in the well-protected website apparently operating for just a few months.
Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, both Democrats, said they asked the Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration to shut down and investigate the website, often referred to as the Silk Road after an ancient Asian trade route.
“This audacious website should be shut down immediately,’’ Manchin said.
“Never before has a website so brazenly peddled illegal drugs online,’’ Schumer said. “By cracking down on the website immediately, we can help stop these drugs from flooding our streets.’’
They already are flooding our streets!
Other websites including Gawker have reported on the site. Schumer said the website began operating in February and uses “layers’’ of secrecy to thwart authorities....
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I think I should stay off that road.
