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Security / Re: Simple security question
« on: January 07, 2013, 11:21 pm »
The levels of paranoia in this community.

If you're buying personal amounts, there's about a zero chance that you will get a controlled delivery, so it's a waste of money to buy a second computer. If you're really worried, put TBB and your PGP program on an encrypted thumb drive and you'll be fine.

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Security / Re: Whats the best LINUX OS to USE:?
« on: January 07, 2013, 11:17 pm »
Stick with Tails and the instructions I gave in the other thread.

You are way too confused at this point to be considering options. Stick with one thing and make it work, then you can explore other options. :)

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Security / Re: Questions about Tails..New to it..need little advice..
« on: January 07, 2013, 11:12 pm »
RTFM, bra

https://tails.boum.org/doc/index.en.html

Installing Tails on a USB stick
https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/usb_installation/index.en.html


Install Tails onto the USB stick per the instructions above. Reboot your computer and hit whatever button gets you to the boot menu, select the USB stick and boot into Tails. When you get to that point, create an encrypted volume (file) on the same USB stick to store stuff like your PGP directory.

https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/encrypted_volumes/index.en.html

https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/truecrypt/index.en.html

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Off topic / Re: how much safer would drugs be if they were legalized?
« on: January 07, 2013, 10:04 pm »
I can see the value of it in protecting vendors against reverse scammers. It's not unreasonable to require new buyers to do it for their first few orders. As a new buyer, I went through it myself.

Life is full of trade offs.

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Off topic / Re: how much safer would drugs be if they were legalized?
« on: January 07, 2013, 09:17 pm »
Quote from: Limetless on January 07, 2013, 09:06 pm
In fact let's take a look at some of the vendors that have done a runner, most of them did the whole "Yay for SR praise the revolution" thing so I think that really shows that it matters very little. In fact I'd go as far to say as that it's probably the case that a some (not all) do this to increase their sales because it probably makes buyers feel more secure.

I totally agree with you. The moral of the story (to everyone else) is that whether you're buying from Limetless or anyone else, stay in escrow. :)

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Off topic / Re: how much safer would drugs be if they were legalized?
« on: January 07, 2013, 08:40 pm »
No, what I'm saying is:

You only care about people as long as you have a professional relationship with them.

That professional relationship will end when you arbitrarily and perhaps unpredictably decide to quit vending. There is nothing to make you give a fuck about them at that point.

You have admitted that you will quit vending one day.

That makes you an increased risk to scam on exit.

*Of course* now you will fix people's packages, because you want to keep vending, but that won't always be the case, and nobody knows when you'll decide to quit.

That makes you a continuing increased risk to scam at any time.

People's defense against that is to use escrow, but read the reviews of any top vendor. Lots of people "FE for trusted seller". In fact (wavelength), well respected vendors are in a position to pull the biggest scams.

Well, anyone could decide to scam and quit. I'm just saying, if someone openly expresses that attitude, it's best to pay attention.

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Off topic / Re: how much safer would drugs be if they were legalized?
« on: January 07, 2013, 07:56 pm »
I understand that, but someone with that attitude is more likely to pull a Tony76-style exit, and you never know when that is going to happen.

If they're openly warning you, it's best to pay attention. :)

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Security / Re: PGP Public Key Policy
« on: January 07, 2013, 07:52 pm »
The most important rule here is, don't mix your anonymous and real identities.  Don't send a public key that you use on SR to people who know your real identity. Don't post that public key on clearnet where it can be linked to your IP address.

Beyond that, you can have as many public keys as you want identities, but most people maintain either one or two identities. In the case of two identities, they keep their marketplace and forum identities separated.

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Off topic / Re: how much safer would drugs be if they were legalized?
« on: January 07, 2013, 07:35 pm »
Quote from: Limetless on January 07, 2013, 07:05 pm
Addicts always cause crime because addicts need their fix.

This is true to an extent. Legalizing drugs wouldn't be a panacea against all their social ills. Consider all the problems associated with alcohol abuse. It is implicated in a large percentage of date rapes and domestic abuse situations, traffic accidents and deaths, gun and other accidents (falling off balconies, etc.), lost jobs, and health problems. Some legalized drugs would have the same terrible consequences that they do today, but it's also true that the organized violence, the gang warfare, the Mexican kidnappings, would be gone. Well, Mexican cartels might still kidnap, but not to protect a drug trade.

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Off topic / Re: how much safer would drugs be if they were legalized?
« on: January 07, 2013, 07:30 pm »
This escalated quickly.

Quote from: Limetless on January 07, 2013, 07:01 pm
Why would I give a monkey's nut about people who I have NEVER even met and NEVER will?

I would take that as a warning to all of Limetless' future customers.

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Security / Re: How to clear evidence from a computer?!
« on: January 07, 2013, 07:18 pm »
Quote from: purplelotus on January 07, 2013, 06:19 pm
I find bullets to be my hard drives only weakness... and then use a drill press to finish the job and toss that bitch into the swamp!

Unfortunately, you'll need to grind the disks into microscopic pieces. From the same analysis I quoted earlier:

To positively prevent data from recovery, disks can be removed from disk drives and broken up, or even ground to microscopic pieces. (Actually, simple disk bending is highly effective, particularly in emergency situations.) Obsolete government document DoD 5220 required physical destruction of the storage medium (the magnetic disks) for data classified higher than Secret. Even such physical destruction is not absolute if any remaining disk pieces are larger than a single 512-byte record block in size, about 1/125" in today's drives. As linear and track densities increases, the maximum allowable size of disk fragments become ever smaller.

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Security / Re: Are you Paralyzed by PGP? Fear no more! Join PGP Club :)
« on: January 07, 2013, 03:04 pm »
+1 Nightcrawler, but these instructions for Windows are a bit advanced, since you also need an HTTP proxy :)

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/GnuPG#windows-opt-B

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Security / Re: Are you Paralyzed by PGP? Fear no more! Join PGP Club :)
« on: January 07, 2013, 02:02 pm »
Since there's a new browser bundle out, now's a good time to learn how to verify file signatures.

Here are the instructions on the Tor web site:

https://www.torproject.org/docs/verifying-signatures.html.en

They say you need GPG4Win, but that's not true. You just need gpg.exe, and that comes with GPG4USB. It is located in the bin subfolder of wherever you extracted GPG4USB:

C:\wherever\you\extracted\gpg4usb\bin\gpg.exe


Pro tip: don't use gpg.exe to download Erinn's signing key from a key server, since that connection will go over clearnet. The key server will log your clearnet IP address. Instead, copy her key from here (access it over Tor):

http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x416F061063FEE659

The rest of the instructions should work the same.

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Security / Re: Are you Paralyzed by PGP? Fear no more! Join PGP Club :)
« on: January 07, 2013, 01:56 pm »
@CleanWhiteBoard

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Security / Re: Are you Paralyzed by PGP? Fear no more! Join PGP Club :)
« on: January 07, 2013, 01:54 pm »
@dude100

You encrypted this message with your public key. You need to grab my public key from the link in my signature and encrypt the message with that.


Quote from: dude100 on January 07, 2013, 08:24 am
@astor

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