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

Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by duaneb on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:22AM (#5143923)

I would imagine these sites would also run SSL making this point moot.

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by sroecker on Thursday January 31, 2013 @09:03AM (#5144984)

.onion sites don't need SSL as Tor traffic itself is already encrypted.

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Re:Australian police prosecute man for buying drugs via Tor ... by duaneb on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:10PM (#5146707)

Ahh, I didn't understand how they worked; I thought exit nodes were still necessarily used.

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