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Re:The FBI Says How It ‘Legally’ Pinpointed Silk Road’s Server by wcummings on Saturday September 06, 2014 @02:44AM (#8277715)
>And obviously if someone gains arbitrary code execution, they can just Google "my IP" and see the externally facing IP.

This is what firewalls are for

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Re:The FBI Says How It ‘Legally’ Pinpointed Silk Road’s Server by runeks on Saturday September 06, 2014 @08:10AM (#8278138)
No, that's not necessary. The point is that the web server does not have Internet access: it can only access Tor (its network interface is a virtual one that can only access Tor). Any Google search for "my IP" will return whatismyipaddress.com and this site will report the IP of the Tor exit node.
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