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For some reason I am having a lot of trouble with this. I'm trying to extract an RAR file I just downloaded into a folder I created in my persistent volume but it doesn't extract, for whatever reason.  I'm using the archive manager to try and extract the files, but it's simply not working.

That's odd. The archive manager should work with RAR files by default. I just tested it with an example RAR file from here:

https://code.google.com/p/suddendeath/downloads/detail?name=example.rar&can=2&q=

Does that one open for you? If it does, maybe the RAR file you're trying to open is corrupt? Are you getting a CRC error or anything like that?

Also, I have no idea how to open the PDFs in the RAR. And I can't extract them to open in ScribusNG (which I think is the pdf reader in tails, correct?).

Once you get the PDFs extracted, you can double click on them in the file manager and they will open with Document Viewer, which is technically called Evince. But your problem is that you can't extract them.

Part of the reason I got tails was to buy some books off of SR, but now I'm not even able to properly open them. Please let me know how to deal with this if you have experience with tails. I've been searching on their site and forums and can't seem to find much.

Check the error that you get when attempting to extract. If it's a CRC error or something along those lines, try downloading the RAR file again. If you still get the error, contact the vendor and have them re-post the file.

You touched on something I've often thought about but forget to mention that too. The biggest weakness in my plan so far is just like you said the drugs need to come from somewhere. Whether they're made, or shipped in, or bought locally if I was LE that's where I would start my investigation and my leg work.

Yeah definitely. LE is a lot more interested in manufacturers and distributors than in buyers, so targeting distribution sources is a useful attack vector. To that end, it's a security risk to buy vendor-specific products from other vendors. There are SR vendors who sell baggies, MBBs, shipping supplies. That's a great place for LE to insert themselves. Even if you buy those products under an alternate buyer account, only vendors buy those products.

Same goes for reagents and precursors. I wouldn't buy sassafras oil from anyone on the internet as they are likely to be LE. From what I understand, the major manufacturers source that stuff in person by traveling to the relevant parts of the world, and building personal relationships with local suppliers.

Anyone trying to make MDMA from a guide they bought on the internet is likely to fail. Anyone making MDMA from precursors they purchased entirely on the internet is likely to get arrested.

So far I haven't come up with a solution to that aspect that I'm happy with. It seems each has a certain level of risk and as much as you plan some things are not in your control. I think the safest vendor would be one that just sells his prescription on SR. He/She can keep the drugs at home because they are his afterall but the only flaw with that solution is I don't know how my Doctor will feel about me asking him for 500 vicodins, lol.

Yeah, that would be safe too, but as you pointed out, limited to whatever you can get legally. You're basically at the whim of your doctor, unless you start doctor shopping and then you open yourself to risk again.

Great information here guys! That clears up pretty nicely. So it looks like TAILS is the best method and safest then? If LE ever come a knocking just flush that usb bad boy down the toilet.

Yeah, it's the best out of the box solution.

Keep no records on your computer(like that idiot kid that got busted in AU who kept a written ledger of all drug transactions lol) or in your house and don't be an idiot and keep your house clean if your a vendor.

And be very careful about using mobile phones. So many cases that I hear about where people get busted, a lot of evidence is found on their phone. Even if it's purchased anonymously and the storage medium is encrypted, there's a saying that metadata in aggregate is content. The records of who you called and when and from where tell a story. Really, if I was dealing and had to use a phone, I would change it all the time. That way if the shit hits the fan, they only have records for the last phone, which would go back a short time.

Also if and when I start vending I won't use my home computer for such things. I'll just a laptop and roam for wi-fi or find an a wi-fii that has a WEP key and break into it. Of course I'd have to change my mac address or just buy a cheap second hand laptop with cash and good to go. =)

I would be careful about hacking other people's wifi, because it could get you in trouble for reasons unrelated to dealing, but that could compromise your whole set up. Don't break anymore laws than you have to.

Between hiding your Tor use with a VPN or bridge, and accessing Tor through public wifi, I think the options are about even. There are trade offs to both. Sure, a determined adversary could work with the VPN provider to unmask your Tor use, but they would have to know which VPN provider to contact about which IP address. It is unlikely you'd be identified behind a VPN through a fishing expedition, although there are attacks that LE could do to identify vendors, see here:

http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=159722.msg1129048#msg1129048

Public wifi is a good way to guarantee no Tor use is linked to your home, but there's a really high chance that you will be on camera. Even back alleys have security cameras these days, and if you want to sit in a store or some public courtyard or whatever, you will certainly be on camera. That could be dangerous if someone links your activity to that spot.

This is a great guide. I think this accomplishes the same thing as my Whonix-Gateway tutorial: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=161335.0

Same for you scout, that goes without saying.

and write "Return to Render" on all mail no matter what before u open it, only open when you're ready for it (ex, use/sell)

Yeah, it's time to dispel that myth.

http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1f1joh/things_i_learned_from_watching_my_cousin_lose_his/

"The burden of proof is on you to prove that you did not know the controlled substance [was] in [the package]. Nobody is going to believe that somebody ordered an expensive product in your name and you had no idea. Not signing for the package did not help at all."

If you didn't get raided / arrested, you weren't CD'ed

LE won't give you a chance to use / redistribute the drugs.

You got packages from some vendors who set the shipping to require a signature, that's all.