[ufmace]

Combined with rumors that the NSA knew about Heartbleed, this makes me wonder if they actually were involved in outing Silk Road. As far as I know, we still haven't seen any indication on how the FBI managed to find and image the Silk Road server.

[antocv]

I dont think heartbleed was necessary to crack Silk Road server - after all its just another php server, those arent really known for being air-tight.

Especially the programmer who basically copypasted stuff from stackoverflow.

[Buge]

I saw a study showing it is possible to deanonymize a hidden service by doing traffic analysis for several months.

[mpyne]

I would be shocked if they weren't involved in outing Silk Road, in some sort of multiagency effort. It's not clear NSA couldn't de-anonymize specific TOR services if they wanted to even before we knew about Heartbleed though.

[m00dy]

i was going to say the same thing :)