Yes. They all tend to talk in certainties about something that they are only speculating about:
> you would have to go out of your way to expose
> your public IP via Tor.
> However, the hidden service you connect to,
> would be the load balancer. This service would
> have zero knowledge of its "external" ip
> address, as it would be running in a VM
> pointing to a port on the loopback device.
(because obviously nothing else is possible)
> - Server is almost 100% certainly running in a
> VM and doesn't have a public IP.
>
> - The entire harddrive for the server (which
> includes all the the information such as
> private messages and addresses) is almost 100%
> encrypted.
>
> This is the motherfucking SilkRoad. They've
> been operating so successfully for so long
> because they're not amateurs. OP is a liar.
the funny part is: the people i know that used the service (who were far down towards 'non' on the technical spectrum) complained regularly about it's terrible design, stability and security, and were under the impression it was administrated by parties that had little idea what they were doing. they theorized it was a big scheme to go Gox* on them once enough coins were present in the system.
it's interesting that these people, who have no idea what an ip or load balancer or VM is, were able to pick up on this. i would guess that the h4xx0r5 actually spent little time using the service or had the bit of their own necks being exposed taint their assessment.
* yeah, i know no one really knows exactly what happened, but it's fun to poke fun.
