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Silk Road discussion / Re: CAN SOME ONE HELP ME WITH IRC CHAT?
« on: March 13, 2013, 03:03 am »
Now THAT is how you ask for help. Nicely detailed. :)

So yeah with the 25 second delay I'd say you just can't connect to the server.

You can check to see if Tor is trying to connect to it. onion icon -> Network Map

Let your browser bundle sit idle for a few minutes so it isn't building circuits. Then try to connect in mIRC and you should see it building a lot of circuits (that fail). Then I'd say it is confirmed that your Tor is having trouble connecting to the hidden service (and mIRC is configured correctly).

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Security / Re: Mt Gox not accepting BTC from SR?
« on: March 13, 2013, 02:55 am »
They disabled deposits yesterday during the block chain fork, but they should be accepting them now. Actually, the fact that you can see a deposit address means that they are accepting deposits. They can't tell other services not to send coins to them, especially since, as I said, other services won't know that those addresses belong to Gox. The only way for Gox to disable deposits is to not give you an address to send coins to.

You can always transfer your coins to an ewallet and try to transfer to Gox from there.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: CAN SOME ONE HELP ME WITH IRC CHAT?
« on: March 13, 2013, 02:47 am »
Tor does the DNS resolving. Here's what I know about it (quoting from the Freenode web site):


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 If your IRC client can handle socks5 with remote dns, you can just connect to the .onion address directly. Otherwise, use Tor's "mapaddress" feature to fake it. (We do not recommend that you use Privoxy with irssi. It's unnecessary. Just use the 'mapaddress' approach and torify irssi to start it up.) Add a line to your torrc, as in this example:

mapaddress 10.40.40.40 p4fsi4ockecnea7l.onion

Be sure to HUP (reload) Tor if you change your torrc. After you've made the change, just connect your torified IRC client to the IP you specified in your mapaddress statement for the freenode service. Tor will do the conversion for you internally and you'll connect to freenode.
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Note that this "remote DNS resolving" is a feature of Socks5.  Apparently, if the IRC client is configured for Socks4 or Socks4a, it won't work. So that's one potential problem. If you are using the wrong Socks port (9150 in this case), that's another potential problem.

If your program can do Socks5 but not the "remote DNS resolving" part, that's a third potential problem. The fact that it said error resolving server is why I thought this was the problem and mapaddress is the solution. Even if it isn't the problem, using mapaddress won't hurt.

Now I'm not sure what the problem is, but they should check all the configuration stuff I mentioned again.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Good alternatives to SR, since it has gone to shit and all?
« on: March 13, 2013, 02:37 am »
Quote from: SelfSovereignty on March 13, 2013, 02:06 am
Your point is well taken, astor; perhaps I underestimate the power of word of mouth.   But do you remember when MySpace was "the thing," and you barely ever heard anybody mention that Facebook business?

That sure did change fast.  I sure thought it did, anyway.  It works both ways is all I'm saying.

Good point. One benefit that new markets have is that a semi-technically literate ecosystem of sellers and buyers who know how to access hidden services and buy bitcoins already exists. You don't have to teach them all over again. :)

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Silk Road discussion / Re: CAN SOME ONE HELP ME WITH IRC CHAT?
« on: March 13, 2013, 02:29 am »
That's why I asked how long it takes to see the error. If they're getting the error immediately, they probably configured the wrong SocksPort. If it takes 10-30 seconds, they probably just can't reach the server.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: CAN SOME ONE HELP ME WITH IRC CHAT?
« on: March 13, 2013, 02:21 am »
Quote from: SelfSovereignty on March 13, 2013, 02:17 am
It occurs to me -- you shouldn't need mIRC whitelisted.  mIRC is only connecting to your local computer (that's what happens when you set things to go through Tor -- they connect to it on your local computer, and then Tor makes the actual connections to the internet).

So it should *at least* be saying it was able to connect to 127.0.0.1:6667.  Astor, are you sure that map thing doesn't actually alter the Windows hosts entries and cause mIRC to think it has the address and try to connect to it w/o a lookup or proxy...?

Just a stab in the dark.

The only thing mapaddress does is translate an IP address into an onion domain. It's useful when programs don't know how to handle pseudo-TLDs and stuff. So the IRC client knows what an IP address is, it sends it to Tor's socks port, and Tor translates it to the onion domain and does what it normally does to connect to hidden services.


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Silk Road discussion / Re: CAN SOME ONE HELP ME WITH IRC CHAT?
« on: March 13, 2013, 02:18 am »
So it said Unable to resolve server before, and now it says Unable to connect to server (Connection timed out).

The SocksPort in your torrc is 9150. Are you sure it is 9150 in mIRC?

I screwed up earlier when I said 9050 because I forgot it's different in TBB than in the standalone Tor client.

Make sure it is set to 9150. Another question, do you get that error immediately or does it take 10-30 seconds to see it?

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Security / Re: TOR connecting to "Proxy server is refusing connections" after recomended update
« on: March 13, 2013, 02:10 am »
Quote from: anonom on March 08, 2013, 10:33 pm
Even though it is not recommended to overwrite things for TBB, I still have a question:

Is it possible to only replace the component that has been updated ? For instance, if  the Tor teams says they updated the Tor client, then can I just replace the folder for Tor (not firefox) ? On the other hand, when firefox gets a minor update, is it safe to replace only that ?

The above is clearly a bad idea since it's mixing components with different versions, but it can be such a pain in the ass to updates the whole bundle for some minor (and often not described on the blog) bugs.

To update the whole bundle all you have to do is extract the zip file in a new place (and usually in the same place). How is that harder than mucking around with individual folders?

If you have bookmarks or preferences that you want to keep,

1. You should be storing TBB on an encrypted volume
2. You shouldn't be changing the defaults too much because that reduces your anonymity
3. There are only a couple files that you need. Go to Data\profile and copy over places.sqlite and prefs.js


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Silk Road discussion / Re: Good alternatives to SR, since it has gone to shit and all?
« on: March 13, 2013, 01:54 am »
Quote from: sourdieselman on March 13, 2013, 01:26 am
However, I am been genuine when I encourage OP to open a black market place that is an improved version of Silkroad bc I bet that if someone opens such market place and gets it to become popular people will start to leave silkroad

Possessing the technical knowledge to run a secure hidden service with advanced features is the easy part. Getting people to use it is the hard part. Silk Road owes a large part of its success to the media. It's 10 times as popular as BMR because Adrien Chen chose to write about SR instead of BMR, and many articles followed.

Now SR benefits from the network effect. There may be better social networks than Facebook, but everybody goes to Facebook because that's where everybody is. Similarly, sellers want to sell on SR because they are exposed to the most buyers, and buyers want to buy on SR because it gives them the widest selection of drugs. How are you going to attract sellers to your new market if there are no buyers and vice versa?

If you want your competing market to take off, you should create a bunch of fake listings and reviews, make it look really big, and contact some journalists. Get some free advertising through their moral outrage and link baiting. You *might* be able to bootstrap it to success. :)

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Security / Re: Mt Gox not accepting BTC from SR?
« on: March 13, 2013, 01:29 am »
I don't see how SR could know that address belongs to MtGox, since Gox creates a new one after every deposit. It's never been used so it can't be connected to Gox.

You usually see that error if the bitcoin address isn't copied completely, like if it's missing a few characters.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: CAN SOME ONE HELP ME WITH IRC CHAT?
« on: March 13, 2013, 12:31 am »
Quote from: anonymouse23 on March 07, 2013, 04:15 pm
In my Vidalia Control Panel Settings the TCP connection is set to 9151 and thats what i used in MIRC.
Is this why i get this error:
* Connect retry #7 silcroadg3c3mtu6.onion (6667)
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* Unable to resolve server

9151 is the ControlPort, not the SocksPort. The SocksPort is still 9150.

Unable to resolve server is a DNS resolving error.

There is a way around this using Tor's mapaddress functionality.

Shut down TBB.

Open the Tor configuration file with a text editor. On Windows, it should be in Data\Tor\torrc, wherever you extracted your browser bundle.

Add this to the end of torrc:

mapaddress 192.0.2.2 silcroadg3c3mtu6.onion


Start the browser bundle.

Go to mIRC and enter 192.0.2.2 for server instead of the onion address.

Edit: Port 9150, not 9050

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Are any of you aware of this?
« on: March 13, 2013, 12:14 am »
They might as well walk into the nearest police station and announce that they use SR.

That's the lowest of the low hanging fruit.

BTW, I like how that group "likes" Firefox. They should make a group for Tor and like that too. :)

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Security / Re: Blockchain.info currently unavaliable/down
« on: March 13, 2013, 12:09 am »
The mixer still exists but it's called a "shared" address now. It's under the Shared tab of your receiving addresses.

They also lowered the fee from 1.5% to 0.5%.

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Security / Re: Blockchain.info currently unavaliable/down
« on: March 13, 2013, 12:06 am »
Quote from: XxWINxX94x23 on March 12, 2013, 11:10 pm
blockchain.info is currently down because of a DDoS attack, according to their Twitter page. Just sent a bunch of coins there, hope everything is OK. You can't access any part of the site currently, they say they are working on it. Just passing along the info!

Situations like this are why you should enable the "automatically email my encrypted wallet to me after any changes" feature. Then you could import your wallet to another service.

No reason you couldn't use a TorMail address.

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Security / Re: any way to tell if your invloved in a MIM attack?
« on: March 12, 2013, 07:57 pm »
Quote from: CrazyBart on March 09, 2013, 06:38 am
In any case i imagine that it would be very hard to detect. For secure websites (https) i suppose you would need to constantly double check certificates making sure everything matches.

Chrome does certificate pinning for some web sites, and Firefox has add-ons like Certificate Patrol and Convergence to help with that. I don't know how well they would work in TBB.

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