[mabbo]

> Services like these give Tor and related projects a bad name

In more ways than one.

What if this had been a tor website that was sharing documents proving government or police corruption? And yet somehow, the police did manage to shut it down. It goes to show that the tech needed for fully anonymous websites may not be good enough yet.

Any sufficiently anonymous website that could be used for good reasons can also be used for bad reasons. If Tor works, we have the good at the bad. If Tor doesn't work, we have neither.

[EthanHeilman]

>It goes to show that the tech needed for fully anonymous websites may not be good enough yet.

The tech will never be good enough. Even if we had magic unexploitable webapps hosted in the platonic realm of pure forms whose privacy is protected by magic cryptography, darknet markets would still get busted. Darknet markets require support staff, managers and engineers to run the site. The humans who run such sites will always be exploitable.