It's Amazon - If Amazon Sold Mind-Altering Chemicals

The video above explains why Joe Duffy was right about "Bath Salts". And this woman knows her shit about shit. She litterally put the shit up the shit! She's the Mythbusters of shit i.e. she does the shit so you don't have to end up in shit. Ok, enough with the shit.


So Joe was right to close down the Head Shops! Ah but of course, Watson: the bathsalts! But don't be frowning that your Head Shops aren't open anymore, you can now buy the real thing online, without fear of the fuzzies knocking on your door. Thanks to the magic of the TOR anonymous network and the peer-to-peer open currency of Bitcoin, you can get your goodies from the "Silk Road". A magical underweb where "you buy drugs with digital dollars".

"Sellers feel comfortable openly trading hardcore drugs because the real identities of those involved in Silk Road transactions are utterly obscured. If the authorities wanted to ID Silk Road's users with computer forensics, they'd have nowhere to look. TOR masks a user's tracks on the site. The site urges sellers to "creatively disguise" their shipments and vacuum seal any drugs that could be detected through smell. As for transactions, Silk Road doesn't accept credit cards, PayPal , or any other form of payment that can be traced or blocked. The only money good here is Bitcoins. 

Bitcoins have been called a "crypto-currency," the online equivalent of a brown paper bag of cash. Bitcoins are a peer-to-peer currency, not issued by banks or governments, but created and regulated by a network of other bitcoin holders' computers. (The name "Bitcoin" is derived from the pioneering file-sharing technology Bittorrent.) They are purportedly untraceable and have been championed by cyberpunks, libertarians and anarchists who dream of a distributed digital economy outside the law, one where money flows across borders as free as bits."

All sounds very safe and secure doesn't it. Just like the Sony Playstation websites! I think I'll stick with buying can's of caffeinated Kx from Tesco with the change I find down the back of the sofa, if it's all the same. Anyway Joe, it's time for you to try to ban the internet again!
[ The Atlantic Article via RistoranteMystica : Amazon quote via Gawker ]