Comment on Aussie cops: Silk Road TOR anonymity 'not guaranteed'parentComments−icebraining14yExit nodes are only relevant if you're communicating with servers outside the TOR network. Silk Road runs as a Tor hidden service[1], which means you never go through an exit node, it's TORified (and therefore encrypted) end-to-end.[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Hidden_...
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Exit nodes are only relevant if you're communicating with servers outside the TOR network. Silk Road runs as a Tor hidden service[1], which means you never go through an exit node, it's TORified (and therefore encrypted) end-to-end.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Hidden_...