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Is it possible to remove all traces of tbb on windows?

That's the next blog post, which hasn't been published yet. When it is, I will post it here.

However, I'm going to preemptively say no.

If you want to hide your Tor use from someone who has physical access to your computer, you should use a bootable distro like Tails. Even running the browser bundle from an encrypted thumb drive is probably not safe, since references to the files will exist in various places after you access them.

Although I think we can conclude that they've wasted 7 months of daily logging in and $2500 without a single arrest...

I think the account is run by law enforcement. Anyone who is going to buy 1kg of cocaine or heroin is obviously a dealer and they'd have an easy catch by meeting up with them.

I was going to suggest that in my previous post. My biggest concern isn't that he's a scammer, but that he's LE. I know people say that LE can "do whatever the fuck they want", and send you drugs, but I don't believe that. If they gave somebody heroin and that person overdosed and died, they would be criminally liable. LE can operate in different ways in different countries, but in most western countries, they can't distribute real drugs. In the case of controlled deliveries, they substitute inert substances and bust the people within minutes, not giving them a chance to flee the area or consume he drugs.

By that measure, it is highly suspicious when a vendor doesn't offer small amounts.

They don't have the resources to go after every 1 gram cocaine order, so if they sold 1 gram amounts, it would very quickly become obvious that they were scamming, as people didn't get their drugs and reported it on the forum.

I read nob's profile where he said that dead drops are better than sending through the mail, but now that Chaos said that nob wanted to meet in person (which is not the same as a dead drop), I'm much more convinced it's an LE account.

He says he doesn't require FE though. So theoretically you wouldn't lose your money.

If his reviews are fake, then by my calculations, assuming he made 3 purchases of the $29,500 cocaine and 1 of the $69,500 heroin, he has wasted $2500 in SR commission on this scam.

Another Mac user who can't import keys or see the keys they have imported...

This thread might help you: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=144403.0

Never use a web site or third party service to do your encryption for you.

You can extract the private keys from your wallet.dat, for example with pywallet, and transfer them to another wallet or service, such as blockchain.info. Look under the Import/Export tab and it will let you enter private keys, at which point that bitcoin address will be added to your blockchain.info wallet. From there you can transfer the coins somewhere else.

http://github.com/joric/pywallet

As I understand it (and I may be wrong here) but the way Tor's hidden services URLs work is that it's kind of like it's own mini DNS system which is independent of the general Internet's DNS. I would assume if you had full access to Tor's equipment and data, you could determine the true IP of the hidden service URLs?

Hidden services publish their descriptors in a distributed hash table hosted by relays with the HSDir flag. These relays are run by volunteers in many different countries and they are not controlled by the Tor Project.

Even if you seized the servers, you wouldn't get the hidden service's IP address. In fact you wouldn't get any information that isn't already available to anyone who knows the onion address and makes their Tor client fetch the descriptor. You establish a connection to the hidden service through introduction points and rendezvous points. The hidden service builds three-hop circuits to the intro and rendezvous points, so it is protected.

You can read the details here: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=rend-spec.txt

I don't know where the Tor people are located, but their contact phone numbers on their website are both American. So I'm assuming they are US-based.

Their main office is in Walpole, Massachusetts, but they have paid developers in several countries, and I think their servers are hosted near DC.

If that's the case, and LE has been very publicly open about wanting to take down SR, complete with US senators being very vocal about wanting it dead, why aren't LE trying to subpoena, or otherwise seize data from the Tor office which could lead to SR's true IP?

Because they would get no useful information.