Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

 Incoming links: Silk Road (marketplace)

Being naughty and creative are correlated  Updated 2025-05-26  +Created 1970-01-01

Ciro Santilli believes that there is a close link between the ability to create disruptive technology, and the desire to find bugs/exploits in systems.

Both of them destabilize society and enterprises.

Some examples:

Jobs and Wozniak's blue box
Robert Noyce's stealing a pig for a university party somewhat as a joke. This was actually a felony, but he got away with a compromise by paying the owner and being suspended for 6 months. The law is not blind, and thanks for that sometimes.
Oh, and apparently he also got a university girlfriend pregnant, and she had an abortion.
Mark Zuckerberg's FaceMash

And yes, this sometimes leads into a fine line between legality and illegality:

Ross Ulbricht from Silk Road
Aaron Swartz

Ciro Santilli's own naughty projects are listed at: Section "Ciro Santilli's naughty projects".

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Onion service  Updated 2025-05-26  +Created 1970-01-01

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This is a way to host a server that actually hide the IP of the server from the client, just like Tor hides the IP of the client from the server. Amazing tecnology!

This is why it enables hosting illegal things like the Silk Road: law enforcement is not able find where the server is hosted, and take it down or identify the owner.

Bibliography:

security.stackexchange.com/questions/38194/how-can-i-get-the-ip-address-for-a-tor-hidden-service-hs-with-a-onion-address

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