[ChuckMcM]

"Goodnight Wesley, I'll probably convict you in the morning."

So the whole extortion / murder-for-hire angle is interesting. I'm wondering how they jump over the reasonable doubt hurdle with anonymous accounts. That said, someone got access to the 26K+ bitcoins that SR "had" so if nothing else the cops seized and shut down the correct hardware.

I'm not sure how to feel about Ross, idealistic dreamer or drug dealer in idealism cover story? Or random guy who got stuck with the bust because some third party was doing all of their dirty work through his compromised laptop? Between Ulbrich and Snowden a lot of the "impact" of the Internet is going from the hypothetical to the actual.

[nooneelse]

So perhaps someone should enable a layer of plausible deniability in the form of a program which makes it look like your machine(s) has been compromised and controlled for a long time now.

[redthrowaway]

You could just buy a Trojan and infect yourself with it, setting the C&C to send out email spam or something similarly (relatively) innocuous.

Still, if you're at the point where they have your laptop and have you fingered, the "plausible" aspect of plausible deniability is likely diminished.