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Quote from: Razorspyne on June 14, 2013, 05:03 pm

The irony is that is someone really were a hard as nails crim, they would not be on Silk Road forums, or at least not all day. We're not hardened criminals for knowing about Tor, just normal people with resourceful ways of obtaining drugs. Nothing hardcore about that at all, in fact, I am not even punching someone as I type this. I will disagree on the "nicest people saying nicest things" though, I have seen some pretty immature and derogatory material on the forums in the last several weeks that is suggestive of a lack of connections in crime and youth to boot from the posters, some of us are teens, some of us are junkies, and some of us are highly functioning people with carefully hidden addictions that certain circles of friends would not understand due to a narrow-minded media-imposed doctrine of intolerance. My advice is to avoid the shit-talkers and stick with the genuines. Great message OP, I find it quite encouraging! Happy trails with your future ordering on The Road, and remember that good, expert advice is always readily available to the right people.

Piece, Love, and Fuck Haters.

Perfect post Raz, you took the words out of my mind. Fantastic post OP, I wish you happy travels ahead

Do you two follow each other around the forum and cheerlead every comment the other person makes?

It is true though that the community has a dark side. There are the scammers, of course, but I've also seen a bunch of people post that they are suicidal. It seems that suicidal ideation, and probably other mental health issues, are overrepresented here.

Not surprising, really. Mental health issues increase the chances that someone takes drugs.

Liberte.

The Armory was shut down because it was spun off as a separate site, and it cost more to operate than they were making in commission. The illegal arms market is much smaller than the drug market. If guns were allowed on the main site, it wouldn't matter, because the site pays for itself through drugs. However, a lot of people objected to that.

I mentioned this in another thread, but this one seems to be getting more traffic, so I'll mention it here too.

Why not make new and low stats accounts deposit BTC before they can send messages? I understand the need to allow buyers to contact vendors before a purchase, but really if they are serious about making a purchase, they should have BTC on hand to deposit into their accounts. Make it a minimum of 1 BTC before messages can be sent. For accounts with less than 10 transactions and $500 in purchases, there would be a 3 day delay on withdrawals, so the spammer can't deposit BTC, spam a whole bunch, and immediately withdraw the BTC. It would give admins the time to identify the spam accounts and delete them, keeping the BTC of course, and making the spamming not worth it.

Accounts with more than 10 transactions and $500 would not have to deposit BTC to send messages and could withdraw immediately.

None of this would apply to vendor accounts of course.

Also, even when they deposit BTC, why not limit them to 10 messages a day or something? Is there really a need to send more messages than that for a new buyer?

The Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit scrubs many types of files. It was a GSOC (Google Summer of Code) project under the Tor Project and is included in Tails.

https://mat.boum.org

It has some Python dependencies, but other than that runs on any OS.

My one problem with it is that it makes PDFs huge. A 3 MB PDF will be scrubbed into a 30 MB PDF. I talked to the person who made it, and apparently that's an issue with python-hachoi, which is what it uses to create the scrubbed PDFs.

The Bitcoin people say that you should create a new address for every transaction. Even if you don't care about your privacy, it protects the privacy of the people you are trading with. In our case, sending to the same address links those transactions. So if you fuck up once, for example by sending directly from MtGox to your SR address, then the other deposits can be linked to you, and those transactions could be traced to accounts on other services.

Realistically it's probably not a big deal, because LE is unlikely to be going after small time buyers. If you are a vendor, then you should definitely withdraw to a different address each time.

I also wonder if it taxes the SR server too much. I've never operated a wallet with tens of thousands, or perhaps hundreds of thousands of private keys.