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I had this issue and nearly tore my hair out trying to find a solution then someone on here gave it to me.

Save the PGP public key as a text file in whatever program you use with your GPG, I use TextEdit then open your key chain and add the public key manually by selecting the text file and voila it works and it listed in your key chain.

Sounds like a character encoding issue. By saving it in a text file, the text editor saves it with the correct character encoding for Macs.

When a man hits a woman, even if she was assaulting him, feminist groups go into uprage all over the world and jump on the bandwagon about how he should be locked up etc, however then they shout that they want equality and womans rights. If women and men are the same, should it not matter if a man hits another man or a woman? Well, shock to the system, there actually are differences, whether it be physical or mental, there are differences and they just dont want to admit it.Its fact end of.

If a woman hits you and you report it, she will be prosecuted just as easily as a man. However, there is a huge disparity in reporting domestic abuse between men and women, mostly because of male culture that says you're a pussy if you complain about it or don't handle it yourself. So women get away with beating on men until they snap and hit the women, then they report it and the men get prosecuted.

It happened to a friend of mine. His girlfriend would get in his face, shove him around, slap him, so finally he snapped and hit her. She called the cops and they pressed charges. It was only because everyone came to his defense -- even her parents said she did that shit -- that they dropped the charges. He got lucky, it doesn't usually turn out that way.

But it wasn't just his girlfriend that got him in trouble, it was the fear that male culture instills in men that you shouldn't show vulnerability or seek help.

Don't blame them for our stupid rules.

We already have that. It's called Philosophy, Economics and Law.

You really need to do a little research before you send your money to random bitcoin addresses operated by unknown and untraceable hidden services.

GPG4USB doesn't exist for Mac, only Windows and Linux.

I believe most people on Macs use GPGTools.

Figured I would add this here, or maybe we should create a separate thread for publishing literature about anonymity network security. AnonBib is focused mostly on Tor.

Here's a new paper about deanonymizing I2P users: http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~spjsschl/i2p.pdf

There's no date in the paper, but a thread was started about it 2 weeks ago here: http://zzz.i2p.us/topics/1414?page=1#p6850

It also references papers from 2012. So, I think it was published in the last month or two, and it was definitely published this year.



Practical Attacks Against The I2P Network

In this paper, we describe an attack that can be used to break the anonymity of a victim who is using anonymized resources in I2P – for example, a user browsing eepsites (I2P’s terminology for anonymous websites) or chatting. We are able, with high probability, to list the services the victim accesses regularly, the time of access, and the amount of time that is spent using the service.

We first show how an attacker can tamper with the group of nodes providing the netDB, until he controls most of these nodes. This is possible because I2P has a fixed maximum number of database nodes (only a small fraction of nodes in the entire network host the database). The set of nodes can be manipulated by exploiting the normal churn in the set of participating nodes or by carrying out a denial of service (DoS) attack to speed up the change. We show how a Sybil attack [6] can be used as an alternative approach to control the netDB.

By leveraging control over the network database, we demonstrate how an Eclipse [7, 8] attack can be launch. This results in services being unavailable or peers getting disconnected from the network.Finally, our deanonymization attack exploits the protocol used by peers to verify the successful storage of their peer information in the netDB. The stor age and verification steps are done through two independent connections that can be linked based on timing. Using the information gathered by linking these two interactions, an attacker can determine (with high probability) which tunnel endpoints belong to specific participants (nodes) in the I2P network, and, therefore, deanonymize the participant.

Experimental results were gathered by tests performed both on our test network and on the real I2P network (against our victim nodes running the unmodified I2P software; no service disruption was caused to the actual users of the network).

In summary, the main contributions in this paper are the following:

1. A novel deanonymization attack against I2P, based on storage verification
2. Complete experimental evaluation of this attack in the real I2P network
3. Suggestions on how to improve the I2P to make it more robust

More importantly, what could have been done so that this didnt happen?! I cant think of anything i couldve done to put my account in jeopardy.

Scan your computer for malware. If a keylogger was planted on your computer, they could steal your password and pin when you made an order. This happened to someone I know. He lost all the BTC in his account.