setting up a hidden service? pretty easy...
setting up a hidden service is _easy_. Anyone can use a web server to listen on an unfiltered port, use a dynamic DNS (or onion address), and have a web server with whatever 'hidden' content you want. You could even require using a VPN into a private address space to view it.
The thing is, if you want people to see your 'hidden' site you have to tell people how to find it.
And if other people can find it, at least SOME of those 'other people' will be LAW ENFORCEMENT.
I guess that's a summary of what happened with Silk Road 2, as the article pointed out that the undercover cop was invited to the new network admin IRC channel.
"Dumb Crooks" indeed.
SANE people don't commit crimes because they fear punishment for them. At least, that's how it works with _ME_.
(or another way to state it, one definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting a different outcome)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
