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Off topic / Re: The Death Lottery
« on: April 18, 2012, 02:01 am »
Terrorists are people who fight for ideological causes that go against what the people who make your propaganda believe in.

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The SR strategy is one of exclusively taking the position of the interior.

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defenders are in what military strategist Carl von Clausewitz calls "the position of the interior." They have to defend against every possible attack, while the defector only has to find one flaw that allows one way through the defenses ........ The attacker's clear advantage increases the scope of defection even further.

Being purely defensive gives extreme advantages to your attacker. They are defensive and offensive. You are not going to win a war by purely defensive tactics, you are only going to ensure that a single mistake on your part is all it takes for an attacker to defeat you. You should force your adversary to also take the position of the interior in respect to their own strategies, because then they also are forced to protect from every single possible attack, a much less pleasant position to be in than eternally waiting for one single weakness in their opponent.

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Security / Re: PGP vs PRIVNOTE PLEASE HELP NEW VENDOR!
« on: April 17, 2012, 11:44 am »
SR stores things on an encrypted virtual drive at best, which is essentially worthless because if they trace or hack the server they can still get the drives key from memory (either by dumping it to a forensic laptop, or accessing it after rooting the server). privnote is equally worthless, although for different reasons.

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Off topic / Re: They took the farmers market
« on: April 17, 2012, 05:17 am »
It really isn't better training etc though, they have done money mule / paypal tracing operations many times in the past. TFM was operating with techniques that were known as weak to federal level attackers, and they kept using them because they thought they could screen the feds out of their 3k member once open registration forum.

http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/project-flicker-investigation-exposes-vast-child-pornography-ring

www.dodig.mil/fo/Foia/ERR/OperationFlicker/200800080D%20(black).pdf

Somewhere there is a big report on how they detangled the paypal and money mule network to trace the people running those commercial membership CP sites (they were using fake work at home ads to recruit money mules), but I can not be bothered to dig around for it right now. But I am sure they used the exact same techniques against farmers market, since farmers market was using the same exact technique as the CP sellers in this operation.

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You are not crazy but I think the conspiracy is one to make money more so than to prevent mind expansion, although that probably does also play a role. Government makes people afraid of drugs, make drugs illegal, get more money from people to fight the war on drugs, make more money for their powerful lobbyists interests. It really is a conspiracy, and all of the people who participate in it should be charged with conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity, and given death sentences.

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If the Jews (and allied forces) held a non violent protest against the holocaust they would all have been exterminated.

"Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass." - Mike Vanderboegh.

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New prisons equals new jobs for government employees and contractors. They spend our money on it. The government is equal to the modern day slave owners as far as I am concerned. Protecting our freedom from them is important, but it is not the answer to defeating them unless the protection is perfect for everyone. And that is not possible. The real goal should be to make it so we don't need to protect our freedom from them anymore, because they are rendered powerless by whatever means necessary.

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Off topic / Re: They took the farmers market
« on: April 17, 2012, 01:36 am »
Remember last June when the Gawker article about Silk Road came out?  And then two senators held a press conference and demanded that the DEA shut down Silk Road?  Well, perhaps the take down of TFM is a result of that.  In other words, when the political shit hit the fan, the DEA went after online drug markets and took down the weakest one.  The path of least resistance, so to speak.  It's not to say they wouldn't or won't take down SR, but maybe TFM would have gone along unfettered if SR hadn't been getting so much press.  Just a thought.

When SR had senators bitching about it, I pretty much took that to be the end of TFM. Of all the public drug forums TFM was by far the easiest target.

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Who says we aren't fighting?  For everything that is ordered, shipped, used, grown and sold it's another dollar that is spent trying to prevent it.  They can only keep up for so long.   ;)

Until they run out of prison space and need to build some new ones?

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Off topic / Re: They took the farmers market
« on: April 17, 2012, 12:55 am »
TFM being shut down comes as a surprise to absolutely nobody who knew about it and had any common sense, you can't have a near open registration major international drug market and take CIM and paypal. Even they knew that their entire security came from not having feds on the forum, as they made apparent in several posts that worried that their multi thousand member forum might one day be infiltrated (like it hadn't already been). They were extremely naive. Unfortunately many on SR are also extremely naive. Also bitcoin is no more anonymous than paypal if you use paypal to pay for it. Bitcoin is no more anonymous than the method used to obtain it, don't be fooled by adding an extra layer because it is by itself a worthless layer, the entire transaction history is public. Bitcoins should be obtained anonymously and cashed out anonymously, at the least you should use a mix but then you risk money laundering charges unless you cash in and out anonymously. I am quite afraid that Bitcoins falsely perceived anonymity is lulling people here into a false sense of security.

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buying and selling bitcoins for profit might be illegal if you don't have the proper licenses, but I am sure that depends to a large extent on the scale you do it. There is a difference between trading your twenty euros to your friend for some dollars, and setting up a business that exchanges euros and dollars. 

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Security / Re: Security threat, network map
« on: April 14, 2012, 06:08 am »
The network map only shows lines if Tor can guess their location. It uses some geolocation database to do this, but it is horribly out of date and doesn't have many of the newer nodes in it. Nothing to worry about.

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keep in mind that common sense and law are not the same thing. I think there is no doubt at all that mixes would be considered (and are) money laundering in all cases (A. they structure money over multiple accounts, B. They exist for the sole purpose of obfuscating the source and destination of finances). I think in USA exchangers who don't follow strict guidelines will likely find themselves arrested for money laundering. Buying sending and receiving bitcoins is less to worry about though, mixing is certainly money laundering (for all involved) and running an exchange is also very likely to be considered money laundering unless the exchange is licensed and follows all of the regulations.

 It would be nice to hear an actual lawyers opinion on these things instead of people merely speculating. I can show a few sources of government officials claiming that bitcoin = money laundering, and there are plenty of cases of centralized e-currencies and exchangers being charged with money laundering, and bitcoin mixing has been called structuring and money laundering by at least one legal analyst (I can't find that link atm but might dig it up later) .... but I can't point to any specific law (other than in regards to structuring)

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What he does go after, however, is Bitcoin:

    "It's an online form of money laundering used to disguise the source of money, and to disguise who's both selling and buying the drug," said Schumer.



it is also pretty obvious that exchangers lawyers are telling them that the government will consider them as financial exchangers (which they are) and regulate them as such

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TradeHill Chief Executive Officer Jered Kenna cited “increasing regulation” and a lack of funds. “TradeHill can not operate in it’s [sic] current capacity without proper money transmission licensing … [W]e have deemed the best course of action is to halt trading and pursue licensing while raising funds,”

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Drug safety / Re: Am i the only one who can't tolerate weed?
« on: April 13, 2012, 12:01 pm »
Same for me. When I first started smoking I had no anxiety what-so-ever from weed. It made me feel relaxed, hungry, things seemed funny, it was nice. This lasted for several years. After taking a break and returning to it, I first started to experience paranoia from it. This went away after continued use as my tolerance came back, but it is worth noting that I did not have such paranoia when I started smoking in the first place. I find that when I take any significant break, even of a week or two now, that when I start up again I get bad anxiety. These days it seems to come and go in waves. Sometimes I can smoke a ton of weed and just enjoy the experience. Other times smoking small amounts causes extreme paranoia. I have somewhat come to even like the paranoid trips it gives me though. Mind racing at a  million miles per hour, but when taking control of this + the increase in abstract thinking and creativity it can be like a super smart drug for me, at least it seems so when I am in such a state of mind ;). I took some orally and it was to much though, it caused me to shake violently + paranoia , never had shakes before.

So yeah it is hit or miss for me, sometimes relaxing and fun, sometimes my mind races but I can channel that energy in a pleasant way, and sometimes I am extremely paranoid and violently shaking and absolutely hate the experience. But I take the chance still and smoke on occasion, sometimes regularly and sometimes with months in between sessions. The more often I use the less likely I am to have unpleasant experiences. Sometimes I get entirely lost in my mind after I smoke and my body goes almost completely on autopilot while I am quite literally stuck in deep thought. Weed actually makes it much easier for me to entirely filter out the external world and enter into my mind and thoughts, to the point that it is actually difficult to 'escape' from thought to pay any attention to / interact with my surroundings. This coupled with racing thoughts can be an amazing experience though, laser focus on train of thought that goes at a billion miles per hour is enjoyable for me, but does come at the cost of temporary near-total inability to interact with external stimuli.

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I think Wikipedia sums it up quite nicely,

"Money laundering refers to the process of concealing the source of legally and illegally and grey area obtained monies. "

So by this definition, nearly everything is money laundering.  If I legally sell a pen, and then hide the income from that pen, I am engaging in money laundering according to the above statement.

It's another one of those stupid blanket laws that can be arbitrarily applied to ANYONE who doesn't keep good books basicly.

Yes. In practice money laundering is essentially anything that involves money that the government has not explicitly approved. Several E-currency exchangers and services have been busted in USA and charged with money laundering, even ones that were apparently taking some efforts to follow the law. You would really need to have solid brass balls to operate a bitcoin exchange in USA unless you get written permission from the government saying that you are allowed to do so (probably in the form of some license) + keep detailed records on each of your customers + fully comply with suspicious activity reporting laws etc etc etc.

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