Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor and Silk Road

Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by damian2000 on Thursday January 31, 2013 @12:11AM (#5143581)

I don't think they circumvented Tor. The police tracked him via mail deliveries, then just seized all his computers and mobile phones to get evidence.

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by jval on Thursday January 31, 2013 @12:15AM (#5143593)

Thanks for that, I'll change the article title.

I was going off this Ars article which made it seem as though the Australian cops were quite suggestive, but you're probably right.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/australian-cops-t...

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by duaneb on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:23AM (#5143926)

Yea, this is just a really stupid person.

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