Silk Road founder arrested ...

[adi@hexapodia.org (Andy Isaacson)]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 05:38:36PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
> At 12:37 PM 10/2/2013, Ted Smith wrote:
> >The "slip" in this case is that the services were hacked.
> >Tor (neither TOR, nor ToR) wasn't compromised.
> 
> A surprising number of things *were* compromised,
> not even counting the known FBI malware attacks on the Tor network.

The FBI malware didn't attack the Tor network, it just caused vulnerable
endpoints to connect (outside of Tor) to a tattle-tale network server.

> If you read the indictment, there are a lot of email messages

Not email, but rather, private messages on the Silk Road platform.
Which apparently stored more or less all messages, forever.

-andy