Hey Bob,

I'm not suggesting that Silk Road wasn't made by Ross Ulbricht. I'm suggesting that it could easily have been an NSA program. These are not the same. Ulbricht in this scenario is simply a patsy. Perhaps the NSA got what it needed and the political pressure was such that when it was time to go, it was time to go. So-called amateur hour does not necessarily indicate anything.

Anyway, I'm digging further and further into "wild" speculation, so I'll probably end this here. Perhaps you are right, perhaps it is far-fetched. But on the other hand, every single thing I saw in that video yesterday is too. Except apparently, it's not.

-wendell

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On Jan 1, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Robert Williamson wrote:

> Hi Wendell,
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> I had trouble too believing that silk road was actually popular and that the guy behind it was living with housemates under a pseudonym. But needless to say what the NSA or another agency might be able to gain from crypto currencies, the government at least has much more to lose from the rise of a new global reserve currency.
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> Fact is silk road was a shoddy site run by some average people,it had numerous vulnerabilities during its lifespan as have all the other deep web markets, usually web security basics like SQL injections or xsrf , or stuff like only checking g a user is logged in and not checking a user is allowed to access a resource. Its all pretty much lolphp amateur hour for many of these sites look up some of the leaked source for one of the darknet markets and you'll see.
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> The evidence is a bit circumstantial its easy for any agency to fabricate private keys to illegally obtained funds/other illegal data on your machine and frame you for something. It just doubt that has happened in this case. If they had been running silk road since the start then it would be better for them to keep doing so for the profit.
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> Bob