wikipedia said:Estimates based on extrapolations from a study done at University of California, Berkeley in the year 2000, speculate that the deep Web consists of about 91,000 terabytes. By contrast, the surface Web (which is easily reached by search engines) is about 167 terabytes.
Tor is just a clever proxy server. Its about as secret as the moon.
+1
From a technical POV, the technology behind it isn't all that special, it's been around for a loooong time
You really think browsing anonymously is possible?
Yes, but as the internet progresses its getting harder and harder. Requires serious dedication though and isnt something that you'd bother with unless you were doing something rather more than the standard illegal bits and bobs.
Intresting stuff, cant believe i've never heard of it. Not really interested in browsing for CP and other nasty stuff mind. Wasnt TOR created by some government anyway?
Only real reason I can think people would want to use this is for drugs.
Well Silk Road is no more.
It's been seized by the FBI and an arrest of the person the suspect to be DPR has been made.
A lot of speculation around it at the minute as most believe that the real DPR sold the site quite a while back. Will be keeping an eye on this to see what the score is.
There are all sorts of different stories. Most relating to him using an account in the very early stages of SR called "altoid" which he used to publicise the SR and also to look for someone else to help it start up.
This makes for some light (read hefty) reading.
http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf
It still doesn't make 100% sense to me. Someone that's been running SR for this long surely doesn't get caught out by something so stupid.
I agree. But there are some very grey areas surrounding the whole arrest.
The FBI state they they obtained a copy of the SR server in July. Not the actual server, so how they could display the seizure message is beyond me as onion addresses aren't easy to just redirect as you would with a typical URL. They would have to have control of the server or the private key.
As for the Murder charges there is no record of a person under the name that was apparently given by DPR to the "hitman" or any proof of a murder during the expected time.
Lots of things don't add up and I'm not sure how well they can legally make this stick. Call in the foil hat brigade but I've got a feeling that a lot of this is "made up" to put together a "legal" arrest warrant. I have a feeling more information has been collated that can't be used legally due to the means in which it has been obtained.
Call me paranoid but with the current state of monitoring I can see there being much more to the story.
It's always the little things that get you caught, or you get power hungry and want to boast about it!
The thing he messed up on REALLY badly - SR is hosted in the US - that is not going to be nice at all.
Plus, if there are logs stored then it gets much much worse for him as there are hitmen for hire and all sorts on SR, soliciting murder wouldn't go down too lightly.
Actually there was... you could get anything.
That place is worse than Atlantis was.