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Quote from: Limetless on June 02, 2012, 08:01 am

Quote from: brutusk on June 02, 2012, 07:50 am

Quote from: Limetless on June 02, 2012, 07:43 am

Oh and members here's the link where you can view this shit...tell me I'm wrong. - http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=22270

Nope, you're right. The dude can't even keep his story straight.

I'm thinking local or maybe regional LE that hasn't a clue. Definitely not the Alphabet Mafia, just isn't smart enough.

Alphabet Mafia... Love it! 

With respect to the OP, you have to wonder what he thinks he's going to learn?

Now, speaking of the alphabet mafia, as far as the FBI goes, according to sources (Bamford?) the vast majority of FBI agents aren't comfortable with computers. It would appear that they're far more comfortable with a lined yellow pad and a pen than they are with a computer. I find myself wondering if it was pressure from the computer-phobic brass that led to the Mixmaster remailer seizures about a month ago now. Even the EFF commented that the FBI should have known better than to do this. The EFF also stated (correctly) that Mixmaster has been around for almost 20 years -- long enough that the Bureau should have learned in that time that such seizures were (and are) futile, as they would learn nothing.

Most of the FBI's records are still on paper; attempts to computerize their record keeping systems  have flopped spectacularly, not to mention expensively. I seem to recall they've had at least two failed attempts so far.

Now, this may all change in future, as the older agents retire, and younger, more computer savvy personnel are recruited, but this remains to be seen. The culture there is anything but geek-friendly.

Guru

If you look at the FBI as being as skilled at computers as their average cybercrime agent, you can quickly see that they are on average not skilled. I always make comparisons to their CP operations just because there are soooo many to choose from and it shows them fighting one of their number one cyber enemies. The average cyber specialist at the FBI carries out CP operations against P2P networks by running software that is made for them that spiders the network looking for keywords that indicate CP, and then download and fuzzy hash the file and compare it to a database of known CP fingerprints. All the agent does is run this software, then they confirm the hit (which with fuzzy hashing is nearly 100% accurate anyway) and file paperwork to get the physical address of the person who owns the IP address, then they file paperwork to get a warrant to raid it (or they forward it on to the appropriate jurisdiction, and file the paperwork for the hits that are forwarded on to them, to get the warrant to raid someone in their jurisdiction). That is the average computer skill of an FBI cyber specialist. At the higher levels they are actually making the spidering software, which is more impressive, but they are often not even making exceptionally sophisticated spidering software (for example they only very recently started using fuzzy hashing, prior to this they were almost always using regular hashing which is much easier to circumvent as a single changed pixel changes the entire hash).

At the higher skill levels we can see that they can make proxy bypass attacks such as CIPAV. I have not seen any proof of them using zero days though, so they are exploiting known vulnerabilities to root targets and circumvent their anonymizers. This shows that they have coders but doesn't show that they know how to find zero days only how to implement attacks that have already had proof of concept published. The fact that we only see them using known exploits may be because that is all they need to use and they don't want to leak the full extent of their capability.

I used to have a copy of an FBI cyber specialist career path map that showed the titles of the courses they take at Quantico over a nine year or so period, but unfortunately I no longer have this. I will actually try to find it again and share the link here. I don't recall it verbatim, but I remember that around year nine is when they *started* learning about traffic analysis as well as how to configure custom linux and BSD kernels. It also showed an expectation of a year nine agent as leading an operation against a major cyber crime group, from identification of the group all the way to deanonymizing the members gathering evidence etc. So the FBI does have some people who understand at least the basics of traffic analysis and operating systems, probably more. If you take a year 10 agent they would have about one year study of traffic analysis and they would also be expected to be currently investigating or having already busted a major online cybercrime group. Then again they are probably the ones making the P2P spidering software, as it is traffic analysis. But it is very primitive traffic analysis, and it has been relatively unpolished until fairly recently.

I wonder how many year 9+ FBI cyber specialists there are. It would be nice to find how many years they have had a cyber specialist program for. I also absolutely must find and share that PDF here because I believe you will find it to be very valuable intelligence. Fuck, I wish I saved it.

This is why you use fake ID boxes. Usually reship on interception is left to the discretion of vendors, sometimes they offer interception / lost package insurance for an added cost, sometimes it is included in the cost and they let you know before hand, other times they have a policy of 50-50, other times they tell you to get fucked. At least that is how it has always been on private forums. I certainly don't think you are entitled to anything more than the vendor agreed to prior to making the deal though. Also care to give a general idea of the tracking notice? I don't want you to post the full tracking notice if you don't want to, but if it specifically says something about being intercepted or if you are just speculating due to it taking a long time to update would be nice to know, they used to straight up say when a package was intercepted but I figured they got smarter since I had heard of interceptions that didn't explicitly say it on tracking (but still gave it away) later on.

Why did you buy Rosetta stone from here you can download it from any torrent site for free

It takes a special kind of unscrupulous vendor to download shit for free with Bittorrent and then turn around and sell it for money

I believe the common Mac GUIs for GPG only let you select keys by E-mail instead of username, so if a vendor doesn't have an E-mail attached to their key it will not display. Stupid design. Can you see usernames as well or only E-mail addresses?

in a perfect world, you would be right.  but in the u.s., it is easier to convict drug user/sellers than it is rapists.  it's sad, but it's true.  and with that other site getting hit, the farmer's market or whatever, it is very possible le could be looking here too.  if it happens or not, only time will tell.

In a world where the DEA combats CP he might be right, but in the real world there are all kinds of law enforcement agencies and some of them are tasked with bringing down sites like SR and have absolutely no reason to target CP sites because it falls way out of their job description.

Quote from: randomOVDB#2 on May 31, 2012, 02:51 pm

Quote from: Limetless on May 31, 2012, 02:38 pm

Quote from: Meister on May 31, 2012, 02:35 pm

Registered? Serial number in tact? I had both rifles and pistols throughout my childhood, and have no problems if his parents know/approve and it goes through a licensed dealer for a small fee. Otherwise if you're trying to sell it illegally, it's not like selling a bag of weed to the kid, where if he was caught his parents would throw it away and he'd be grounded for the Bieber concert. If that kids caught with an unregistered glock there will be serious questions from the parents and LE, and if it came back on you that would be some bad news.

Exactly. Also what happens if the kid is a numb nuts and shoots someone? Fuck that.

I don't understand. I had a gun when I was 15 and I didn't shoot no one ?

Then you were using it wrong

He either shot 0 people or between 2 to several billion humans, you prefer to shoot exactly one human? Actually I misinterpreted it, he didn't shoot no one, the double negative from the didn't / no cancels out the n't and the no so we are left with he did shoot one. So depending on how you interpret his sentence he could have shot zero to an arbitrary number of people, seems strange that this could imply improper use of a firearm since it holds true for everybody.

I know of one IRC drug scene as well, it has no real connections to the group of forums I think of when I think of the online drug community. I only know one person who was a member of it though, he sort of converted over to the forum scene. I wonder if it was the same IRC group that you are talking about.