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Re:Things You Should Know About Tor by stephen_g on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @01:23AM (#7975365)
Didn't the feds take down Silk Road because the owner paid a cop posing as a hitman to kill someone?

Also, there is a problem where hidden services can be enumerated by scanning IPs. With IPv4, it is practical for a well connected entity to scan the entire internet and search for hidden services, making it possible to match to IPs. This is only an issue for people running hidden services, not Tor users.

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Re:Things You Should Know About Tor by quasque on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @03:00AM (#7975593)
Hidden services can't be located in that manner unless the owner has badly misconfigured the service so it's reachable by IP address. A typical configuration would have the service listening on 127.0.0.1 or a private (RFC 1918) network address only, and have Tor connect to that.
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