Was just reading up on the whole silk road situation.
DPR was about making a revolution in drug trade. reducing violence and deals on the street. making it safer.
didn't allow things like assassinations on his site. yet he himself resulted to violence went he put out the hit on chronic pain.
seems like he had some discrepancies in his morals and code of ethics. says he was protecting the community,, but still should not result to violence.
DPR would have been a legend in my book if he had not put out a hit on chronic pain. Execution is never okay. Fucked up DPR, man.
ON A SIDE NOTE: (FBI BUSTING IP ADDRESS)
also, i was reading how the FBI used packet sniffers to locate an IP for his server. why has this not been done with dream and other markets still around?
Some feel that this was BS and he was set up or maybe entrapped. The government did not pursue this charge against DPR, which is curious.
Of course that's what they are trying to do. Some people that the whole captcha leaking the IP was parallel construction and didnt' actually happen. If that actually did happen, then it was a bad configuration that let this happen. Many also speculate that the current DDOS's hitting all of the markets are attempts to deanonymize the hidden service. Of course they are trying to obtain the IP but its not necessarily a trivial task.