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3 different scams going on at once, it's getting kind of bad, isn't it?

It's weird, because if you go to any product page, they want you to either contribute or pay to get access, so it might be a phishing site, but it also might be a scam site, or one of those "added value" sites.

A vendor who gets busted will be under a lot of pressure to turn over all info that he has. He would have to turn it over if he wants to sign a plea agreement. It's an unfortunate and dangerous situation for everyone, but if you have an open order or have recently made an order from a vendor who gets busted, expect that info to be compromised. Act like it has been, get a new shipping address, etc.

For personal amounts it's unlikely they will go after you. When vendors in the Farmer's Market were busted, LE clearly got some of the customer information, because some US customers received warning letters from the DOJ, so it does happen. They may not send a letter every time, but be safe and act like they have your info. They will likely only go after people ordering large amounts, though.

LUKS does the key management (it's the Linux Unified Key Setup), dm-crypt performs the encryption and can use various ciphers, AES is the cipher. As long dm-crypt implements AES correctly, it should not be less safe than other programs that use AES-256.

On the other hand, a company named ElcomSoft released a program last year that steals encryption keys from RAM for TrueCrypt, PGP, and BitLocker encrypted containers, but not for LUKS/dm-crypt encrypted containers, so LUKS/dm-crypt is safer than those other programs, at least in that regard.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/20/this-299-tool-is-reportedly-capable-of-cracking-bitlocker-pgp-and-truecrypt-disks-in-real-time/

Ok I got it. Anything that ends in .onion is a hidden service and you need Tor to connect to it. You need to start the browser bundle and leave Pidgin with socks port 9150. Then you can connect.

And I mean, start the browser bundle on Windows, not the VM. Tor has to be available to Pidgin.

Do you have a firewall running by any chance?

donatto, change it to port 9150 and try that.

If it fails, post the debug log.

Um... clinical Mania anyone?

In a sense, it is the complete opposite of depression.

It doesn't necessarily involve happiness. Wikipedia defines it as "a state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels."

What Inigo is looking for is somewhere between euthymia and euphoria.

Interestingly, whether you win millions of dollars in the lottery or become paralyzed in a car accident, most people return to their baseline mood within a few months, which is probably mostly genetically determined.