Quote from: zuckerberg on March 07, 2012, 10:21 pmYou ppl have an ABSURD amount of cognitive dissonance. LE engaged in TOR correlation attacks against the target. Yeah they were 'high value' but so is so SR. LE is not gonna ignore 'drug dealers' ... and if you believe they will, my buddy has a bridge at Brooklyn to sell you.Many people on here seem to rely on cognitive dissonance to help themselves sleep at night. Personally, I prefer xanaxI agree with your general point, but it's also true that we don't have as much of a media presence as Anonymous & Lulzsec.Anyway, there is one critical difference between us and Lulzsec.- We have capital. In the future we will have a lot of capital. Right now we're like the hairline crack in the dyke, but we have the weight of the world on the other side. Can you sense it? The DEA can, they've been having nightmares about 'precedent' ever since.That makes all the difference in the world. We can keep going for the rest of our lives since it's in our direct self interest to, whereas Lulzsec was more of a fad, it was primarily dependent on the boundless energies of barely post-pubescent male mammals. Naive hunters! Morally flexible too, they turn on a dime. Sabu's ideology was extremely confused and internally inconsistent. But very exuberant about it all. The Silk Road is as ideologically driven as Anonymous, when DPR says we are revolutionaries he's not kidding, we want a new world too, we're just not using direct means to achieve it. Anonymous's propaganda is their main weapon, which is precisely why the FBI decided to use a psychological operation attack. It all seems very impressive at the time, but in the end manipulating capital is the tool that produces permanent change.Similarly, expect the DEA to attack our sources of finance through Bitcoin. They know that a dozen more Silk Roads can exist, but shutting down the source of exchange could have a lasting effect. However, they also know such an attack could rebound in their faces, which is why they are going to go for a Total Attack at some point. They'll put the hammer to all banks, exchanges, moneypaks, ukcash, you name it. That and a psychological operation attack simultaneously. They need to create a destructive narrative, I'm sure their industrial psychologists are working on some appealing scenarios as we type.But in the end, they are doomed to fail, like I keep saying, in our economy, there is a perfect relationship between supply and demand. All buyers want some form of virtual currency and all sellers want cash. A perfect 1 to 1 mapping. Videogame currencies, mobile phone credit, the e-golds of the world, any of them can be used to implement.