> In Italy heroin smugglers managed to put the authorities off their scent by setting up bogus websites which were difficult but not impossible to penetrate. While the authorities wasted time collecting information from the bogus sites, the smugglers continued their trade using genuine sites.This may sound a bit whacky, but I think it's a powerful idea.You could use the above 'camouflage' idea to send millions of dud transactions (using new TOR identities etc) to the Silk Road with many 'virtual' dud buyers and dud sellers on TOR acting in concert with realistically buyer/seller like fashions worked out from existing patterns e.g. time zone, occurrence, level of interest in particular drugs etc, these dummy accounts would do things like be sending each other fake encrypted emails at the average rate etc, such that attempting to sort through the genuine ones with some manner of man in the middle attack becomes highly dubious in court. And since we now have a 'stealth mode', none of the real buyers/sellers have to see this "virtual version" of SR, and everybody in stealth mode gets a far higher degree of anonymity.This would make sizing the Silk Road an opportunity to close down operations only, and make any possible sized data evidence of highly suspect relevance to a court hearing. If it were done properly, there would be no way to bring the data to trial.