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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.