Quote from: n00p on March 04, 2012, 07:31 pmThis is from 2002. ><> Significantly, the gang fed information about its daily activities into a computer housed in a ship off the Mexico coast. Raiding the ship would have caused all sorts of jurisdictional problems for prosecutors.> Even basic uses of services on the internet can help the traffickers. In Australia, for example, traffickers have been known to have used the facility offered by courier services which allows clients to track shipments on a website. If there is a delay - which could indicate that the shipment is being investigated - the gang can take appropriate action.> 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.Still useful information. Not all data is time dependent you know. In particular, you could use the 3rd idea to send millions of dud transactions to the Silk Road with many 'virtual' dud buyers and dud sellers on TOR acting in realistically buyer/seller like fashions, sending each other fake encrypted emails at the average rate etc, such that attempting to sort through the genuine ones with a man in the middle attack becomes highly dubious in court. In fact, I think it'd make a lovely feature.And since we now have a 'stealth mode', none of the real buyers/sellers get to see the virtual version of SR, and everybody in stealth mode gets a far higher degree of anonymity.