If Silk Road had used this design, they'd still be online

If anyone is interested in reading it, this mentions information about Tor Hidden Services: https://medium.com/@PinkApp/pink-app-trading-latency-for-anonymity-and-other-techniques-815ee21c6da4


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[143 Points] gekogekogeko:

Um, If DPR didn't leave his real email address on a Bitcoin forum and then, later, ask an FBI agent to kill one of his employees, they might still be online....


[28 Points] dafukm8067:

Unfortunatly the world of DNMs was mostly uncharted waters in thr time of SR1. Hindsight is 20/20


[20 Points] bebopx2:

If I'd kept those 100 BTC that were given to me I would have thousands of $$$$


[6 Points] EternalTurmoil:

Services run in a highly restricted environment. All changes are done via complete re-imaging of the service servers. Servers use full disk encryption and the key must be manually entered at boot. Data layer servers will have intrusion detection, shutdown if tampered with, leaving data locked on disk.

That sounds nice and all, but with enough time and money, someone can hack in.


[2 Points] JohnnyYenOnTheDnms:

if.. i was a little bit more than a road, possibly an avenue


[2 Points] exmachinalibertas:

Tor hidden services really aren't too hot for your backend configuration. Tor is slow. If you want to segregate your backend (so that if a server is caught, the others don't fall), you use an I2P hidden service backend. I2P isn't popular as a front-end service because it's less idiot-proof than just running the Tor Browser, and you have to wait a half hour for the I2P router to start finding nodes and making connections. But if you're technologically competent and want to use segregated hidden service backends, you'd do it via I2P.

On top of that, having a clearnet website is stupid. If you use false credentials to register the domain and server, you have absolutely zero recourse if the government wants to shut down your server or seize your domain. And if you use your real info, then they already know who to go after if they don't like what you're doing. So there's no good way to run a public website that leaves you both in control and also safe. It's just not possible.

I certainly applaud the effort and the thinking outside the box, but in reality, this is just an overly-complicated setup that doesn't offer the protection that you are advertising it does. You have the slowness of Tor connections combined with the privacy loss of running a clearnet site. The worst of both worlds.


[1 Points] sharpshooter789:

Sounds like fake news. Developing infrastructure like that in expensive and time consuming. Where the hell did the operators find the send money for such an endeavour? They can't exactly seek out funding from ordinary investors.


[1 Points] Fsociety567:

copy and paste the article bro..copy and PASTEEEE


[1 Points] None:

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[-5 Points] protonic_dev:

Repeat post asshat. https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/6xvopa/pink_app_escort_marketplace/