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I need to issue an apology. I had to go away for  family emergency, everything is OK now. But as you may know, we have another emergency going on here.

ChemCat assures me everything is OK though. I hope so as i loaned money off kind people here for my vendor account, i took a risk and as such i am pretty poor in real life. I am sit here with some MDMA and a vendor account crossing my fingers. For the people who have loaned me, i won't forgot and If you see this please PM me another way to contact you in case the forums and site go down.

I have made many friends here and i am sorry i missed the party! The club is staying open as long as these forums do So please join me in a drink.. or two!

Sarge has now quit.

Lets just be careful. Rumours change and spread like wild fire. Lets try and quote actual official articles from the web/FBI/lawyers e.t.c

Otherwise there is going to be mass hysteria on here this weekend and it won't help things

Now DPR has to hire someone else, thus taking longer to do sign ups. Maybe some people should think first about making these threads and putting pressure on these mods. They do a stressful job. Disgusting behavior from some people on here

Sarge has now resigned

Can people fill me in on their views on the security of the site? I have not been online in about 20 hours and i have tons of pages subbed which are rammed now with the latest fiasco.

So we establish those 3 have been arrested. Do they know the identity of the current DPR or current mods, has it officially been stated somewhere, not just rumours?

Quote from: DoctorClu on December 20, 2013, 05:09:24 pm

Quote from: PerfectScans on December 20, 2013, 05:06:21 pm

Any word from DPR ??

He will be making a statement shortly.

How shortly is shortly? Minutes? Hours?

I don't know hopefully tonight

Some speculation that springs to mind here is

a) Inigo and Libertas somehow gave their IRL identities to the old DPR for verification - either he released that to the feds or they eventually managed to extract it from one of his seized systems
b) Inigo and Libertas probably had multiple accounts as buyers too, perhaps after spending long enough looking at the seized server images they were able to correlate the buyer accounts with the moderator accounts - this would also rely on them failing to encrypt address data 100% of the time
c) They at some point connected to the forum or market server directly rather than via tor (perhaps a management interface)

Other than those 3 - I don't see anything other than far fetched and unlikely high-tech attacks

Looks like a)

Andy Greenberg just poasted an article confirming tha arrests claiming he spoke with the FBI. Go to Forbes.

Oh crap!