Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack on Tor?

Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by Zikes on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @04:06PM (#8925771)

And over 70% of emails are spam[1], so we should route every email we send through the FBI/NSA?

That other 20% of Tor usage may very well be political dissidents, whistleblowers, or average Joes that just don't want half the world watching everything they do and say online.

[1] http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/spam/2013/Spam_in_Q2_201...

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Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by bigiain on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @04:39PM (#8925947)

"That other 20% of Tor usage may very well be political dissidents, whistleblowers, or average Joes that just don't want half the world watching everything they do and say online."

Or me, browsing my local government website to check when the next recycling pickup day is. Because I feel some kind of duty to do my bit to make the entirely innocent portion of the haystack bigger...

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Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by JohnTHaller on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @04:27PM (#8925888)

Two points. First, the comparison of spam to child pornography is a bit... lopsided. Second, every email we send is made available to the FBI/NSA already.

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Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by frandroid on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @04:24PM (#8925874)

That's a terrible comparison.

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