Quote from: flyinghigh1660 on September 09, 2012, 12:43 pmQuote from: grahamgreene on September 08, 2012, 11:12 pmQuote from: flyinghigh1660 on September 08, 2012, 10:07 amQuote from: Shannon on September 06, 2012, 05:04 pmbecause the police are stupid, if you're a passive attacker like a law enforcement agency, deanonymizing a hidden service is pretty easyI would never say the police are stupid, underestimating the state's capability to understand, manipulate and carry out attacks on the internet is stupid. The state has other priorities to focus on the internet rather than a small scale drugs site. If TOR, bitcoins and SR reached the success of even a small scale clear net sites then expect a change in assigned resources. And they won't shut down SR they will shut down Bitcoin, turn off the money you will turn off the site.It is very difficult to fight the state, ask the Syrians, I am sure they will let you know this.Whilst I agree it is never a good idea to underestimate one's enemy, how on earth do you think it would be possible for them to shut down Bitcoin without performing a 51% attack to fork the Blockchain?! ???They won't attack it they will just legislate against it.Who, exactly, will legislate against it? ???I'm going to go ahead and presume you're American, and as such you likely have typical American-centric views. You clearly think that if the American government try to make something illegal that that'll be the end of it. Not only would that be failing to take into account that Bitcoin is a global P2P crypto-currency, it would also be failing to take into account that prohibition hasn't exactly worked in the past, as is evident by the prevalence of drugs in our society, and the ease with which we can attain them.You cannot 'legislate against' something such as Bitcoin in an effort to destroy it - doing so would be futile. It's clear that you know very, very little about Bitcoin, it's design, and how it actually works; you'll need to do a lot more reading in order to save yourself from making similarly ludicrous statements in future.- grahamgreene[EDIT: Having read a couple of your previous posts, it would seem you aren't American after all. My apologies for the presumption, but you did espouse typical American-centricity.)