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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: streetelitist on May 10, 2013, 06:51 pm
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So...I've been laying in bed for the past couple days due to a fractured ankle & decided to sit and think about SR & LE. I'm also on a plethora of substances right now...so bare with me.
The ENTIRE WORLD knows about SR. Law enforcement in over 100 countries have known for at least 2 years now.
I'm sitting here doing a bunch of meth-head calculations & the sheer number of government agencies that have to be investigating is ridiculous. I bet there's at least a couple THOUSAND of accounts on here that are made by LE from any country. Considering the time that they've known about SR, there could be LE-owned forum accounts that everybody thinks is a veteran of SR. People we respect here at SR...could potentially be some random cyber-pig just trying to blend in.
Respectable members of SR could simply be LE trying to be buddy-buddy with top vendors until they get close enough to BAM.
Given the sheer amount of people around the WORLD trying to shut SR down, it is highly likely that there are thousands of rats in our midst. Although, most of you must already know that.
Once again, I'm on multiple things right now so call me a paranoid dumbass if this is all stupid cause...idk.
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So...I've been laying in bed for the past couple days due to a fractured ankle & decided to sit and think about SR & LE. I'm also on a plethora of substances right now...so bare with me.
The ENTIRE WORLD knows about SR. Law enforcement in over 100 countries have known for at least 2 years now.
I'm sitting here doing a bunch of meth-head calculations & the sheer number of government agencies that have to be investigating is ridiculous. I bet there's at least a couple THOUSAND of accounts on here that are made by LE from any country. Considering the time that they've known about SR, there could be LE-owned forum accounts that everybody thinks is a veteran of SR. People we respect here at SR...could potentially be some random cyber-pig just trying to blend in.
Respectable members of SR could simply be LE trying to be buddy-buddy with top vendors until they get close enough to BAM.
Given the sheer amount of people around the WORLD trying to shut SR down, it is highly likely that there are thousands of rats in our midst. Although, most of you must already know that.
Once again, I'm on multiple things right now so call me a paranoid dumbass if this is all stupid cause...idk.
You should be operating - at ALL times - as though the entire system is compromised. I'm not saying that it is, of course, but if you don't act like it is then you are likely to let your guard down at some stage. When you get comfortable you get lazy, and when you get lazy you get caught!
A great example of this is the use of PGP, or rather the lack thereof. A small number of vendor accounts were compromised today as a result of the vendors logging in to a phishing site that requested their username and passphrase; as a result of this, the person that runs the phishing site can see the addresses of any buyer that did NOT encrypt their address via PGP.
That is a very, very scary thought.
Libertas
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So...I've been laying in bed for the past couple days due to a fractured ankle & decided to sit and think about SR & LE. I'm also on a plethora of substances right now...so bare with me.
The ENTIRE WORLD knows about SR. Law enforcement in over 100 countries have known for at least 2 years now.
I'm sitting here doing a bunch of meth-head calculations & the sheer number of government agencies that have to be investigating is ridiculous. I bet there's at least a couple THOUSAND of accounts on here that are made by LE from any country. Considering the time that they've known about SR, there could be LE-owned forum accounts that everybody thinks is a veteran of SR. People we respect here at SR...could potentially be some random cyber-pig just trying to blend in.
Respectable members of SR could simply be LE trying to be buddy-buddy with top vendors until they get close enough to BAM.
Given the sheer amount of people around the WORLD trying to shut SR down, it is highly likely that there are thousands of rats in our midst. Although, most of you must already know that.
Once again, I'm on multiple things right now so call me a paranoid dumbass if this is all stupid cause...idk.
You should be operating - at ALL times - as though the entire system is compromised. I'm not saying that it is, of course, but if you don't act like it is then you are likely to let your guard down at some stage. When you get comfortable you get lazy, and when you get lazy you get caught!
A great example of this is the use of PGP, or rather the lack thereof. A small number of vendor accounts were compromised today as a result of the vendors logging in to a phishing site that requested their username and passphrase; as a result of this, the person that runs the phishing site can see the addresses of any buyer that did NOT encrypt their address via PGP.
That is a very, very scary thought.
Libertas
I failed to realize that a number of phishing sites could potentially be LE
I've seen at least 5 compromised vendors in the past couple of days & I know that 85% of buyers don't use PGP...that means hundreds of buyer's addresses were compromised.
ALWAYS BE ON YOUR TOES.
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I failed to realize that a number of phishing sites could potentially be LE
I've seen at least 5 compromised vendors in the past couple of days & I know that 85% of buyers don't use PGP...that means hundreds of buyer's addresses were compromised.
ALWAYS BE ON YOUR TOES.
Whilst we don't know how many buyer's addresses - if any - have ACTUALLY been compromised, it serves as an excellent example of the implicit need to use PGP with all sensitive information.
Libertas