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Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by gwern on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @07:30PM (#8926748)
We can't rule it out, no. Just comment that it does not seem necessary at this point: Moustache's doxing of scout/Cirrus shows that she could have been easily busted, we know that she was subverted early on (it was rumored at the time, in fact - 'emailgate'), once the account was taken over, then it is perfectly capable of de-anonymizing a server (de-anonymizing is really easy; I've de-anonymized or helped de-anonymize at least 2 blackmarkets myself, and actually, just today someone has found another way SR1 could have been de-anonymized easily, although I can't go into details), and currently the seller/employee busts are consistent with the Freedom Hosting attack, which no one needs to ascribe to parallel construction (since we know it was an obsolete NSA attack which got reused).
Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by thizzbuzz on Thursday January 22, 2015 @10:07AM (#8929495)
What if any steps do you take after de-anonymizing a black market?
Re:Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack o... by gwern on Thursday January 22, 2015 @11:08AM (#8929859)
If the operators seem reasonable, you contact them privately with the IP and point out the implications. If they don't seem reasonable, you post it on Reddit and destroy their reputation. Unfortunately, quite a few operators are fools, knaves, or both.