If anyone manages to hack Silk Road, they deserve whatever they can get out of it because that would take significant volumes of talent and there isn't much on the live server bitcoin wallet for security purposes. If somebody ever does find a hole in our security, it is just 1 more crack sealed for the future with limited losses which we can cover from the market profits. Although I cannot comment on individual cases, please understand that the senior staff are aware of the presence of particular individuals who may be of interest to watch. To support what DoctorClu stated; our dev team did converse with backopy to investigate the source of the exploit and it was successfully patched on Silk Road. The error was not in the coding of our markets but the underlying server protocols all web applications are built upon, so backopy could never have been aware of the problem before it occurred. We are grateful for his input of information so that we could locate the source of the hack too as without this it is possible Silk Road may have been vulnerable also - I think this highlights the power that friendly co-operation can have between trusted market operators. The Silk Road system has many built in fail-safes and we believe the best way to ensure your bitcoin and data is safe is to keep that data encrypted and off the main server. Very little bitcoin is kept on the live server, only enough to balance withdrawals and deposits and is drained every day to keep it low. In the event of a hack and this being lost, SR replenishes this from the profits of the site and the user is fully reimbursed for the loss without them even noticing. There are also over 300 different mechanisms to ensure the integrity of our server and data ongoing at any given moment so we would know (probably faster the hacker would too) if something had breached our systems, which in any case would trigger a lockdown that not even I can reverse, only Defcon.