Comment Re:Nonsense (Score 1) 388
Distributed darknet crypto-geeks have a pretty poor track record of creating unbreakable systems, too.
SSL/TLS: Launched 1994, sold as impervious, significantly compromised roughly once a year ever since
PKI: Same story as SSL, except you also get fun design decisions that allow foreign governments and corporate IT to impersonate any host they like
Tor: Launched 2002, all onion layers pierced by 2012, requiring only sufficient funding
Bitcoin: Decentralized, anonymous, encrypted to the hilt, billed as economically sound, it goes through market crashes that make Wall Street look sane, is infested with more scum an villainy than a Tattooine nightclub, and in the end isn't really all that anonymous anyway, for much the same reason that a Tor veil can be broken.
Silk Road: Launched 2011, collapsed 2013.
Silk Road 2.0: Re-launched 2013, shut down 2014.