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Am I the only person that thinks anarchism means not-state, the absence of a state?

There's an infinite number of models possible, just as there being many many forms of state based governance, from despotism to democracy to republicanism to communism.

Y'all can add on extra features for your favorite form of anarchism, but don't expect the next anarchist to agree.

But what is the point of anarchism? What do you hope to achieve?

Because if it's the whole thing about state violence, I agree with the poster above, state violence merely gets replaced by private violence, private police, private armies. What you really get is a de facto plutocracy, which is much worse that the various forms of western democracy, despite their many dysfunctions.

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My pgp went through a time when I had to change it 2 times in 2 weeks

PGP keys don't change randomly. The part you're glossing over is you were so careless that you lost your private key twice in two weeks, which is a pattern with you.

The 14korder (it was actually 15k-the hackers changed the price)

Is that even possible? Can anyone confirm this?

was already sent out and will arrive

So I expect that review to change within a week.

Frankly, you were extremely negligent, and no one in their right mind should deal with you, even if SR allows you to continue to be a vendor.

You entered your password and pin on this onion: vc3vveg64kbhtfrn

That should have been your first clue. And the phisher was dumb enough to include a provably fake signature.

gpg: CRC error; D384F4 - DADD7B
gpg: packet(2) with unknown version 220
gpg: no signature found
gpg: the signature could not be verified.

Which you didn't check.

And the language on the second page was obviously non-native English, which you now expect your buyers to use as as a clue not to FE, but wasn't enough of a clue for you not to enter your password and PIN.

Hey, it's a free market. I'm sure DPR will let you keep vending, but you really need to find a new line of work. You're too dangerous and stupid for your clients.

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Because they're not amateurs.

They won't take down the site until the operators are identified and arrested.

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You can say it's just fake internet points, but it does seem to be having an effect on the attitude of newbies here.

If a system is being abused, might as well discard it.

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I wonder if they have a plugin for these forums that allows you to see who gives you + / - on your user profile somewhere? That would sure be useful.

I don't know if such a plugin exists, but it's possible. When you click thank/discourage on a post, the forum software knows which link you clicked. It lodges the karma but discards the info about the link/post. SMF is open source and could be modified to save that info. So someone could write a plugin that lists everyone who thanks or discourages a post, right next to the post. I suspect that kind of transparency would radically change the current ethos around karma, since it would quickly expose the shill hater accounts.

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There's no cure for stupid.

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Mind == blown.

There's a guy who lost $14K because of this idiot. He needs to be hellbanned from the site.

Edit: I'm saying Albion needs to be banned from the site, not the phisher. The last part is obvious.

Here's a review from albion's profile: http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/user/3193205b49

EDIT. changing this rating to 1/5, Albis account has currently been hacked in this last 24hrs, i had a msg from albi about 10 hours ago asking for me to FE then few hours after that Albi messaged me through tormail warning me that his account has been hacked and for me not to finalize anything as the hackers are stealing his money, but it was to late i finalized 2x500gr thinking it was really him and that my order was sent out but he said that my order has not been shipped out, just a warning to everyone please do not order or FE untill Albi has got controll of his account again,

Did you get that?   i finalized 2x500gr

That's for a $7000 listing: http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/item/cff881f084

Albion was entrusted with $14K of someone else's money in one transaction alone, and he mindlessly typed his password and PIN (the only protections on that money) into a site with a random onion address, without reading a damn word or checking the sig.

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Their english is horrible, it is obviously not me. I really hope other people can notice that too.

As is the English on the phishing site. The only way you couldn't have noticed that it didn't sound like DPR is because you entered your password and PIN without reading a damn word.

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Security / Re: Theory: Blind markets
« on: May 10, 2013, 10:30 pm »
That's true. And it's also the case that no human escrow agent makes 100% correct decisions, so no system is perfect, which is why a market of escrow service types would be a good thing. The market can decide in aggregate what the best form of escrow is.

I was originally trying to include an escrow protocol in the market, but now I see that a decentralized market protocol should be agnostic to that. It should merely provide a protocol to contact escrow agents, while preserving the privacy of buyer and seller, and the transaction details, unless they opt for a service that requires that info.

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Security / Re: Theory: Blind markets
« on: May 10, 2013, 08:22 pm »
Those are some interesting ideas for escrow services, summer. There are trade offs. In the first example, Bob loses 1 BTC even though Alice breaks even on the scam, so a malicious person could scam just to hurt other people, at no personal benefit. On the other hand, people could elect to use such an escrow service because it never finds out their transaction details.

The great thing about a decentralized market is that all of these escrow services could exist. People could choose which ones they want to use. Seller's could include in their product listings the types of escrow services they are willing to use. A trusted escrow provider could offer different types of escrow: a "traditional" service where live humans get info and evaluate the situation, and various automated and blind services, perhaps at different percentage rates.

Let a thousand flowers bloom. This is how innovation happens, when you escape the grip of central control. :)

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That makes sense.

Property is the most widespread form of state force in the world.

For some people it's a sacred cow. State force is bad, but the enforcement of property rights is an exception, and one of the few "legitimate" uses of state force. Well, first you have to demonstrate that property rights are legitimate. To me, they exist not because they are inherent in nature, but because people agree to pretend property exists. In other words, it's a social contract. :)

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But ultimately a healthy state dedicated to the public interest makes individual freedom possible." That is, a strong centralized state fosters liberal values (i.e., individual freedom), whereas more decentralized communities rely upon "Status" rather than "Contract," with order based upon revenge, violence, etc. rather than lawfulness.

This statement is pretty well supported by the fact that cartels and mafias so thoroughly dominate the only truly free market in the world, the black market, and they rule by violence.

It is interesting that in all of human history, no society seems to have existed, in fact no group of people with more than say 10 members, has existed that didn't include some kind of hierarchy or social order. It seems to arise spontaneously, even in ad hoc groups. Someone is bound to take the lead.

We are social species because many individuals working together can accomplish more than everyone working alone, or against each other. It allows us to build cities and send people into space. But in order to accomplish those goals, we must coordinate the actions of many individuals, so someone has to make executive decisions. Even if people disagree with some decisions, you have to make everyone do the same thing in order to get anything done at all. So ad hoc groups of students assigned to a project get a spontaneous leader, organizations have presidents, corporations have chief executives, towns have mayors, and nations have prime ministers.

That's just how you get shit done.

Even SR has an executive and this forum has mods. Imagine this community without leaders. It would suck.

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Security / Re: Theory: Blind markets
« on: May 10, 2013, 03:13 pm »
If you are not interested in hiding the listings you can solve the problem completely with blind mixing.

I don't really get the advantage of having escrow agents. If the customer can always request a refund, why no just have vendor send product first and then customer pays them? If they split 50-50 on disputes, why not have customer send 50 percent up front? I don't see the point of having escrow.

Because of disputes. You need a trusted and disinterested third party to resolve them.

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Security / Re: Theory: Blind markets
« on: May 10, 2013, 03:11 pm »
So, here's how I envision it working.

You download a client, which is similar to SelfSovereignty's MetaSilk. In fact, MetaSilk might be a good starting point for such a client. There could be many different clients created by different people, like the variouis bitcoin clients, and you could choose who you trust.

The client launches a Tor instance and connects to other nodes in the network, and downloads/updates the database. Obviously, some nodes will have to run as hidden services, so there would be an option to create a hidden service for your client to let other clients reach you and download the database. In practice, a small percentage of nodes would run as hidden services, while most people would run their clients in non-hidden service mode, but once they are connected to other nodes, they can fully participate in the market.

The client manages your keys. The first time you run it, it generates a longterm identity key, which you will want to back up so you can maintain your buyer/seller history. It also generates one-time transaction keys and calculates stats when you are given other people's identity keys.

The client also manages your funds. It's like a bitcoin-qt client in that way. It maintains a wallet.dat, or perhaps multiple indepedent wallets for added privacy. You load coins into your "buyer account" by sending them to the bitcoin addresses in your market client.

It has an interface for searching and viewing listings. When you are ready to buy, you click a button to submit the transaction, which is signed with a one-time key signed by your identity key.

You can also submit listings at zero cost.

The most important part is that there's an option to include an escrow agent. You enter the agent's identity key (the Silk Road Escrow Service identity key would be well known, for example), and your client contacts his client (which is a hidden service) to initiate the transaction. You would only have to do this once, and your client would store the escrow key for all future transactions. The escrow client could simply be a marketd, running on a server, with scripts that automate the escrow process until human interaction is needed during resolution.

The escrow client initiates a transaction with encrypted data that the operator can't see. The only thing he sees is the BTC value, from which he will receive a fee. Each escrow agent can set his own fees. You agree to the fee when you elect to use the escrow agent's key and send him a notice to initiate the transaction.

The escrowed transaction has a time limit. The buyer and seller must sign it again within a certain amount of time, or the contents of the transaction are revealed to the escrow agent. This is effectively the same as finalizing.

** I'm not sure exactly how this time-based decryption system would work. This is where I need your help kmf. **

If the transaction is disputed, the escrow agent resolves it and signs the transaction to either return the funds to the buyer, send them to the seller, or some kind of split.

If the transaction completes successfully, as presumably > 90% of transactions would, both parties sign it and the funds are sent to the seller.


There are other things that could be built on top of this sytem. For lazy people, those who don't want to run desktop clients, or those who don't care about their security, there could be hidden service web sites where they could create accounts, and which manage all of this stuff for them. In fact, SR could be an interface for this. It's analogous to people choosing between hosting their coins on an ewallet or with their own bitcoin-qt client, even though everyone knows it's safer to run your own bitcoin-qt client. If people choose to use a third party service, that's no worse for their privacy than the current situation. In fact, it's exactly the same.

The great thing is that the user has choice in every step of the process. You can choose to use a third party market service or not. You can choose to use an escrow service or not. You can choose to reveal more info or not. There is no default transaction history or buyer stats that someone must know in order for you to participate.

Now, who wants to build it? :)

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Security / Re: Theory: Blind markets
« on: May 10, 2013, 01:35 pm »
I'm actually not that interested in hiding the listings. If every listing is an illegal item, then you can conclude that every person who engages in a trade in that market is doing something illegal, but if 5-10% of the listings are legal items, like on SR, and many sellers would put up dummy legal listings for their protection -- and there's no reason it couldn't be a general market anyway, I mean why do Amazon and eBay need to know what you are buying? -- then you get plausible deniability. The important feature is that the products involved in each trade are unknown to third parties. Of course, the escrow agents would find out about some of them, but if 95% of transactions complete successfully, the situation is much better than it is now.

And as I argued last night with some folks, in the *worst case scenario*, you get exactly what you have now. A trusted third part escrow agent learns your entire transactions history.

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