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fartsinthewind, yeah receiving drugs is the riskiest part. Check out the SR Risk Analysis for Buyers thread, that's exactly what we're talking about there.

The TAILS thing is a nice concept. I just like being able to keep copies of my torrc file on hand to block known bad nodes/exits.

Bad exits are blocked automatically by all Tor clients. Blocking other nodes that you "believe" are bad makes your circuit patterns different and fingerprintable. We maximize our anonymity when we all look the same.

I've said it many times before, but I'll say it again. Quit fucking with exclude nodes.

Im always taking the small amounts approach, in my country and most countries you will get arrested anyway for international orders as its "drugs importation". In here - even for 1 cannabis seeds, there are no love letter and when theres a CD nobody care if you sign or not, you will still have some unpleasant experience, penalty will be very easy at court maybe some fine and crap if its not a repeat felony

That seems harsh. What I gather from many years of reading about drug busts in articles and personal posts on various forums, in the United States you are much more likely to get a package intercepted in customs than in domestic mail, but the amount has to be bigger in order to get CD'ed. I have heard of 100 tabs of MDMA getting seized in customs and the recipient did not get CD'ed. On the other hand, in recent months, two cases involving about 100 g (equivalent to 1000 tabs) did get CD'ed.

I don't know what the cut off is for various drugs, and most likely there isn't a specific cut off. If the amount is within some gray area, it probably depends on whether someone in the LE hierarchy decides to pursue the case.

So, I keep my orders safely below what I believe is the gray area for the few drugs I'm interested in.

Also, love letters only come from customs. I have never heard of love letters coming from domestic mail interceptions. The purpose of a love letter is to inform you of a package that you can theoretically claim, because there are people with DEA licenses who are legally allowed to possess and import controlled substances, including hard drugs. They are mainly researchers working at official research institutions.

On the other hand, the majority of knock and talks come from domestic mail interceptions. I believe a knock and talk, where LE knocks on your door and openly asks about a package, is a type of fishing expedition. The amount is too small to spend the resources to do a proper controlled delivery, and it's not something they would want to spend money on if you decided to fight it in court, but if they knock on enough doors, a certain percentage of people will get scared and confess.

Showing once again that you should never talk to LE. They have professional interrogators. You will not outsmart them. Your best defense is to say nothing.

One anecdote: I personally know someone who got a knock and talk on a package of 30 percocets. The name he used was fake, he claimed it was a transient ("some guy I met at the bar") that he allowed to live in his house for a few weeks but kicked out days earlier ("because he was shady as hell"). He didn't get charged.

LE didn't have to believe his story. They couldn't prove otherwise. I still strongly believe in not using your real name anywhere. It is a stronger defense than not signing for the package, putting "return to sender" on it,  and most of the other suggestions for plausible deniability that I have seen. If you must receive mail under a "real" name, get a fake ID.

Hey look, we're talking about buyers again in this thread!

Sorry I derailed it to vendors.

Personally i think that the search-arrest-interogation is the worse part, much more than the punishment when
We are talking about small amounts, specially when you have family...

Yeah, in many circumstances, simply catching charges can fuck up your life. Instead of dealing with the legal intricacies of whether signing for the package proves I knew about its contents, I'd just rather not get CD'ed in the first place.

Btw astor - reading you technical posts has always been my pleasure n these forums

Hey, thanks man.

inb4 50 book-length posts by kmf.

Let me be more clear. You should make an actual disk, on read-only media, because a rescue partition can be infected too.

renton sells FH invites on the market for $17 last time I checked. Search for his vendor name. The listing is kind of hard to find otherwise.

Censorship isn't particularly libertarian.

Why? You can do what you want with your property, and what is more libertarian than property rights?

Free speech is a contract between the government and its citizens. In an anarcho-capitalist society there is no government, only property, and what people choose to do with their own property.

If someone doxed you, would you be ok if the mods refused to remove it because they didn't want to censor anyone?

There's all kinds of stuff that should be censored: spam, scams, doxing, people accidentally revealing too much info about themselves, and anything that threatens the site's security or our security -- as a start. Personally I would censor that hate speech that occasionally pops up on the forum, but whatever, it's not my property.

Proxies have real IP addresses, they're just not *your* real IP address.

If you want a response from the web site, you have to put a real IP address in the packet header. The only time people don't is if they're doing syn floods and stuff like that (basically DOS attacks).