Maybe we'd have fewer incidents like these if keyboard jockeys were a bit more teachable. Even super 1337 h4xx0r5 make mistakes, often obvious ones. Software is complicated. Let this be a lesson to any of us who may dismiss a correction too quickly.
> you would have to go out of your way to expose
> your public IP via Tor.
> However, the hidden service you connect to,
> would be the load balancer. This service would
> have zero knowledge of its "external" ip
> address, as it would be running in a VM
> pointing to a port on the loopback device.
> - Server is almost 100% certainly running in a
> VM and doesn't have a public IP.
>
> - The entire harddrive for the server (which
> includes all the the information such as
> private messages and addresses) is almost 100%
> encrypted.
>
> This is the motherfucking SilkRoad. They've
> been operating so successfully for so long
> because they're not amateurs. OP is a liar.
it's interesting that these people, who have no idea what an ip or load balancer or VM is, were able to pick up on this. i would guess that the h4xx0r5 actually spent little time using the service or had the bit of their own necks being exposed taint their assessment.
* yeah, i know no one really knows exactly what happened, but it's fun to poke fun.