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It's probably best to setup Tor to only use entry nodes in your own country which you trust, and only use exit nodes in countries which are not controlled by the NSA. E.g. South Africa, Taiwan and China.

To your torrc config file you could add something like this:

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StrictNodes 1
ExitNodes {tw},{za},{cn}
EntryNodes $073F27934762FF8BA956FFCE136AAC1CCF45EA13,$80F870DD215A0C56005266A71C46F92F39F1973B,$6557396CF0EE5B72563A22BCAA0FF26E77FA3D08

OK, you experts out there. say I got the VM software ready to go and I got the whonix gateway and the other whonix component, ready to install into my computer. How do I transfer all the SR data (ALL of it) onto the new OS? I mean since it is so isolated from the rest of the computer. How in heavens' name do you do it?

Nonsense!

Firstly, BG didn't compromise the security of his customers just recently.  He's been doing it since his first sale by keeping records, and committing that same sin with each subsequent sale.  He's only recently disclosed how he's been compromising the security of his customers the entire time he's been vending.

Secondly, DPR's decision doesn't create any incentive for vendors to come clean.  His account was taken away but he's free to come back.  How is that different from a vendor who gets caught scamming and comes back under a different guise?  The only difference is that BG is leaving but given explicit approval to come back.  What incentive is that to come clean, really, when the net effect is the same?

Thirdly, you need to understand, precisely,  why BG came clean and why that should have no bearing about providing incentives for disclosure for vendors that fuck up.

BG came clean because he's, without a doubt, a fucking really decent person!!!  He's a horrible vendor but a really decent person.  He put his customers in danger and he came here to try to mitigate the damage he might have caused by alerting them to the danger.  The courage to make that disclosure comes from a person who has a fucking conscience and integrity, and that's why he's been so contrite and genuinely willing to "walk the plank."  Vendors will disclose if they have a conscience and courage, not SR incentives. 

Lastly, I haven't been writing to protest BG's punishment but DPR's sentiments regarding it.

How comfortable would you be right now if your name and address were on that spreadsheet?  Would you have any idea how long you would have to wait before you find out if there are to be consequences of the spreadsheet?  What about users who rarely frequent the forums or the market and are totally oblivious to the fact that their information may be in the hands of the feds?  What if some of his customers have criminal liabilities and this would land them back in prison?  Where do I stop?

So if you were one of those people, and you're here reading what, in effect, was DPR patting BG on the back and you, Astor, rationalizing his decision as the right thing to do for potential future indiscretions, I think it would be reasonable to think that DPR, you and others have lost sight of what actually just happened.  That the screw up that has affected you, right here, right now, is being used to benefit some potential future victim(s).  In what fucking world does that make sense?

DPR should have come down HARD on BG, like Old Testament Yahweh hard, for breaking his primary duty and responsibility to his customers.  And he should have left it to those people, whose trust he betrayed, to forgive him and embrace him back into the community under another vendor account.  It's not his place to 'forgive' by sending him on his way with a pat on his back when it wasn't him that was potentially affected in such a fucked up way.

http://www.newstalk.ie/High-Court-to-hear-extradition-request-on-child-porn-kingpin