Drug Case In Ireland Has Fingerprints of Carnegie Mellon's Attack On Tor

blottsie writes: Newly released evidence shows that Irish detectives who worked the case of two convicted drug dealers may have also used data obtained through CMU's Software Engineering Institute's methods. Mannion and O'Connor were arrested on Nov. 5, 2014, according to a database of Dark Net arrests created by independent researcher Gwern Branwen. That's the same day that the owner of Silk Road 2.0, the replacement for the infamous drug marketplace Silk Road, was arrested. The IP addresses of Silk Road 2.0 were provided to the FBI by a "source of information," according to a search warrant in another case impacted by the attack on Tor, which court documents later confirmed was a university-based research institute.

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Silk Road?

[Frosty Piss]

The Silk Road dude went beyond the line. He didn't just try (and succeed) at building a "dark market", he tried to have people killed. Now, some may dispute this, and the paranoid conspiracy nutters will say it's all fabricated, but I believe the facts will come out in the trial, and it will be shown that the Silk Road dude crossed over to the dark side and became a sociopathic asshole.

Weed...

[Frosty Piss]

By the way, in Washington (where I live), Colorado, and very soon Oregon, you can buy weed in regulated stores in shopping malls and downtown hipster hangouts, take it home and toke to your heart's content, and answer the door to a cop who will tell you to turn your music down and then go away.