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Silk Road discussion / Re: anybody seen this fake silk road site?
« on: December 28, 2012, 07:11 am »
LOL, yeah, very low tech.

But you know people have been scammed by that.

2702
Security / Re: The "perfect" systems?
« on: December 28, 2012, 06:48 am »
He's back! :)

2703
Silk Road discussion / Re: The post that caused someone to start a Silk Road Pawn Shop.
« on: December 28, 2012, 06:37 am »
Quote from: nomad bloodbath on December 28, 2012, 06:05 am
I suggest to everyone that does not have a vendor account to think about a niche product that they can easily acquire and vend it here for btcs.

The $500 fee makes it uneconomical for one time and small time vendors, and legal goods sold on SR will cost more because of exchange and SR fees. Not to mention, most people won't go to the trouble of buying products off SR that they can readily get through traditional channels. They're not thinking about a "revolution".

So it's a nice thought, but not practical.

Edit: Now if SR was willing to waive the fees, both the signup fee and commission, for legal goods, that might work. Why should they allow people to vend for free? Because like you said, it legitimizes the market and protects the whole community.

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Security / Re: The "perfect" systems?
« on: December 28, 2012, 05:43 am »
Quote from: Wing Hat on December 28, 2012, 05:31 am
1. Do I need a vpn? If so, which one? I'm not really sure how they work in Laman's terms.....
2. Do I need a proxy? If so, which one?

I don't think VPNs and proxies add much protection to standard Tor use. If you're concerned about a local observer, a bridge works fine and it's free. However, if you want to use a VPN, you should research whether they log or not, and prefer providers who accept bitcoins, which you can send anonymously. Of course, they may claim not to log but still do, which is why I don't put much faith in VPNs as an added protection.

Quote from: Wing Hat on December 28, 2012, 05:31 am
3. Is downloading through TPB a good idea or is there a better avenue?
4. Is utorrent a substantial program to use or is there a better one?

Do you mean running a bittorrent client over Tor? Don't do that.

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea

Quote from: Wing Hat on December 28, 2012, 05:31 am
6. So using my own home internet connection really isn't THAT risky or should I still try the random wi-fi thing?

Unless you live in a country where Tor is illegal and/or blocked, or you have reason to believe that someone is interested in watching your local internet connection, it is reasonably safe to use Tor directly from home.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: WARNING: http://silkroadv5p5cbl6.onion/ SCAM??
« on: December 28, 2012, 05:23 am »
It takes a few days for shallot to generate an onion domain with the string "silkroad" at the beginning (on commodity hardware). I guess they thought nobody would take the time to replicate it, but obviously it's lucrative enough to do. They need to search the key space for silkroadsilkroad.onion, but that would take millions of years. :)

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Security / Re: Are you Paralyzed by PGP? Fear no more! Join PGP Club :)
« on: December 28, 2012, 05:17 am »
@tmt971

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Silk Road discussion / Re: WARNING: http://silkroadv5p5cbl6.onion/ SCAM??
« on: December 28, 2012, 04:38 am »
Memorize the URL

vb5 piz 3r
vb5 piz 3r
vb5 piz 3r

Never trust a third party site, especially Wikipedia which is easily vandalized.

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Security / Re: How would SR attack LEO
« on: December 28, 2012, 03:38 am »
Quote from: MailMaxDev on April 02, 2012, 12:25 am
Quote
Aggressive retaliation against attacks by LEO, including assassinations.
Something tells me this isn't going to be a winning strategy.

The only thing this strategy will get you is a life sentence, and possibly execution, depending on where you live. It won't get drug laws overturned.

You'll notice that nobody advocating violence has gone out and done it themselves. They're MO is to act like internet tough guys and convince other -- possibly mentally unstable -- people to carry out their idiotic ideas.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Can I have my buyer stats lowered?
« on: December 28, 2012, 03:07 am »
Quote from: fumanchu on December 27, 2012, 08:03 pm
Is there any way (if they busted the site) they could trace back individual accounts (which I'm sure are stored on the site somewhere) to the IP address and location they are used from?

No, that's what Tor is for. They could try to link SR bitcoin addresses back to the point of purchase, though.

Quote from: fumanchu on December 27, 2012, 08:03 pm
How do they go about choosing who gets charged and who doesnt? Like I said above, can they even arrest people with buyer accounts? I'm thinking itd be way too hard and time/resource consuming for them to go after buyers... I feel like bigger vendors and all the site admin would be the first targets, but would they stop at that and let the rest of us buyers go?

I suspect they would go after the biggest sellers and buyers, and start with the low hanging fruit -- the people who have unencrypted addresses stored on the server at the time of the bust.

I doubt there's much of a distinction between seller and buyer. The top buyers on the site are also sellers, just locally. There are buyers with more purchases than some sellers have sales. Someone buying $10,000 worth of drugs a month would probably be a bigger target than someone with sales totaling a few hundred dollars a month.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: I am being sexually harassed by member "normal bloodbath"
« on: December 28, 2012, 01:58 am »
LOL, normal bloodbath.

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Security / Re: Help with GPG on Linux
« on: December 28, 2012, 01:27 am »
I don't know. For some reason I can't start start_linux. It doesn't give an error, it just doesn't start, so that's not helpful. It may be because I have a system version of gpg. Can you do me a favor? Open a terminal and type this

gpg --version

And post the output.

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Security / Re: Are you Paralyzed by PGP? Fear no more! Join PGP Club :)
« on: December 28, 2012, 01:07 am »
Works fine on any media, including your hard drive. It's a ZIP archive you can extract anywhere.

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Liberty Reserve for eNumbered e-cash anyone?
« on: December 28, 2012, 12:57 am »
It's a scam. He's been spamming the forum for a week under different accounts, first as the owner, then as supposed clients. Look at this account's post history. 3 posts, all eNumbered related. And none of these people supposedly interested in eNumbered appeared until after the first posts by the owner.

http://www.scambook.com/report/view/151471/httpsenumberedcom-Complaint-151471-for-$200.00

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Silk Road discussion / Re: Liberty Reserve for eNumbered e-cash anyone?
« on: December 28, 2012, 12:33 am »
Since you're the owner of eNumbered, I'm sure you can help yourself out.

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Security / Re: Storing TrueCrypt Salt on Separate Encrypted Drive
« on: December 28, 2012, 12:30 am »
Yeah, admittedly I just find it inconvenient to reboot all the time, but it would be safer to use a bootable distro on a CD or a VM with FDE and to not have it running when you're not using it. At least I turn it off when I leave the house. But encrypted volumes are the least safe.

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