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Re: Silk Road Operator Ross Ulbricht to Be Sentenced Today
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bryant.coleman
on 06/06/2015, 17:45:40 UTC
Quote from: Slunt on June 06, 2015, 05:35:59 PM
Quote from: bryant.coleman on June 06, 2015, 06:03:10 AM
Quote from: larsson on June 03, 2015, 07:30:52 AM
What concerns me the most in this story was how the feds managed to bust into a highly anonymized encrypted network

You should remember that the TOR is not anonymous anymore. It has been cracked by the FBI. Out of the 4,000 or so TOR relays, around 10% are controlled by the FBI and the CIA. When you log-in to Silk Road, if your entry node happens to be any of these fed-controlled relays, then the feds will be able to track your real IP address.

Do you have sources for this? Though people shouldn't be using tor bareback either. Use a proxy or public wifi before you connect to tor and then you should be safe.

Check this:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/12/silk_road_2_0_arrests_operation_onymous_did_the_fbi_break_tor.html

Using a proxy or VPN is definitely not a solution to this. The FBI can uncover the VPN cover in a matter of seconds. And I don't think that the usage of public Wi-Fi is safe either.