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[tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI
--On Monday, October 07, 2013 10:02 AM +0200 Eugen Leitl <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:55:02AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
>
>> We know silk road was attacked with spam and malware. That it was
>
> We know that Freedom Hosting platform was compromised, and
> dropped malware via a known vulnerability in the TBB.
But that doesn't explain how freedom hosting itself was found in the first
place, does it?
>
> We do not know how exactly TSR was taken down.
> There are reasons to suspect that the official story
> might be a parallel construct.
>
>> attacked with spam, suggests that malware did not suffice.
>
> The rise in Tor traffic well predates the events, and seems
> to be entirely attributable to C&C traffic of a botnet.
>