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Scammers don't even try anymore.

Bitmessage needs a lot more testing. For now I'm not recommending it to newbs.

So does anybody want to test this out with me? Here are two other threads about Bitmessage:

http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=121341.msg833769#msg833769
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=136428.msg927139#msg927139

None of them got anywhere. Everybody's criticism seems to be, why use this when we have TorChat and IM with OTR?

The difference is that both parties must be online to IM. Bitmessage is more like email, except it doesn't rely on a central or third party server. The client you run is essentially your mail server, but it can get messages even when it is offline for a period of time (after being restarted).

I'm interested in this because of the recent TorMail downtime. Bitmessage is a decentralized messaging system. As long as there are *some* nodes on the network, you should be able to get your messages. Contrast that to TorMail. When it is down, all emails bounce.

[Edit: Removed setup info, for now]

Why not?

Because GPG doesn't support Socks proxies, so the user has to run a separate HTTP proxy.

Because it requires mucking around with gpg.conf, and most people are barely able to use a simplified GUI.

And because most people are not competent enough to use key servers safely. They will almost certainly screw up and fetch keys over clearnet, so all LE has to do is ask the server admins for the logs of all IPs that fetched keys X, Y and Z of known big time drug vendors, and they are toast.

Plus, GPG has DNS leaks which one of the Tor devs is trying to patch, but it's unsafe to use for now, even over Tor.

Here's the work being done on socks support and DNS leaks: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2846

The data show, among other things, that the number of adults in Portugal who have at some point taken illegal drugs is rising. At the same time, though, the number of teenagers who have at some point taken illegal drugs is falling. The number of drug addicts who have undergone rehab has also increased dramatically, while the number of drug addicts who have become infected with HIV has fallen significantly. What, though, do these numbers mean? With what exactly can they be compared? There isn't a great deal of data from before the experiment began. And, for example, the number of adults who have tried illegal drugs at some point in their lives is increasing in most other countries throughout Europe as well.

Running Out of Money

"We haven't found some miracle cure," Goulão says. Still, taking stock after nearly 12 years, his conclusion is, "Decriminalization hasn't made the problem worse."

As expected, if you share my opinion that drug laws don't deter people from using drugs. All the laws accomplish is fucking up the lives of people who either suffer no serious consequences from their drug use, and merely use recreationally (perhaps 70-80% of drug users), or are sick and need mental health treatment, not jail.

They get the list of people from the online status and then send PMs to them.

It's the most efficient way to do it, rather than going through the long member list, where 80% of accounts have never posted and 90% of them haven't logged in in a long time and probably won't log in again.

I'm online a lot (unfortunately ) and I never get these messages. Others that I have advised to turn off online status also don't get these messages anymore. I'm 99% certain that's how at least some of the scammers do it.

I'm glad you dug this thread out of the grave, Razorspyne, because it illustrates the kind of FUD that used to be spread widely on this forum.

Jesus, looks like I was wrong. People did actually send him money.

Still, I wonder if the 290 BTC was a forum member or the scammer.