"Silk road was an on-line market place which provided a platform for ‘buyers’ and ‘sellers’ to deal with each other anonymously. It is a platform which functioned, and was only accessible, through ‘Tor’. Tor, is a program which provides a network of host computers to hide your IP address and effectively make you anonymous."
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"The risk becomes attacking ideas, rather than problematic actions. Libertarianism is an ideal; Tor, bitcoin and silk road all share some ideals in common; Tor and bitcoin have no active relationship with the drugs trade. To say so is to blur the lines between a drug war, and a war on an ideal."
the whole article is here:
http://www.singtoyoursoul.wordpress.com
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