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Is Whonix hard to instal? It would be great if someone could post a guide.

For the default images that the Whonix people provide, it's extremely easy. Install VirtualBox, start it up, then File -> Import Appliance for each of the images, then click Start to run them.

Sanity check: was the browser bundle running? Was the bitcoin-qt client configured to use Socks5 127.0.0.1:9150?

Sorry if that seems stupidly obvious, but sometimes you have to start at the very beginning. I have beat my head against the wall trying to help people only to discover their Tor client wasn't running.

You might not be able to recover it, but the CIA could. With the right tools, as said.

I wasn't talking about the CIA. I was talking about that computer store owner. He claims to be able to recover data under any circumstances, but no professional data recovery business claims to be able to do that.

I thought this would be enough because I plan on only ever buying under a half ounce of weed, a few LSD tabs or 50 or less ecstasy pills. But then I came across a few threads that talked about GPG and Liberte, and about how they had and OS then an encrypted virtual OS (http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=15383.0) - is this level of precaution necessary?

These are separate issues. One has to do with unlinking bitcoins that you use on SR from your real identity. The other is about the security of your computer. There are different ways to secure your computer, you don't have to use Tails, but you should unlink your bitcoins anyway.

Yeah, but you contributed to it. I swear, if I was mod, nothing would change except the CP threads would be locked or reassigned to their proper place in Off Topic. At least I had the power to lock one thread down. Don't let this shit ruin one of the best subforums in onionland, mods.

I recently had my computer screen replaced and had a conversation about data destruction with the store owner. He made some calls to his lab about how many times too overwrite as to make information retrieval imposable and the response was this"no matter how many times an over write the information is still retrievable with the right tools"

I call bullshit. I have personally tested a single random write and was unable to retrieve any of the previous files. We can put it to a test. I can create a disk image, create a file with a specific message, make 10,000 copies of that file, then overwrite it one time with random data. If that jockey computer store owner can tell me what the file says, he wins.

yeah i cant believe no one said that in the beginning lol.. i saw u post u were thinking about ordering .1 and i just about died laughing.. u could go through a ball (3.5g) in a night if ur really tryin to have a good time lol

Damn man, if it's good coke, you should be able to pull at least 10 hours for each gram. If you can do a ball in a night, you're definitely getting ripped off.

Not a good idea. https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php/topic,1666.0.html