Quote from: astor on October 03, 2013, 04:56 pmI've been collecting my thoughts over this tragedy. I may have some final things to say, but I don't feel like dealing with this bullshit. No kidding -- after all the time you've put in here. Quote from: astor on October 03, 2013, 04:56 pmOne of the few things that they admitted in the criminal complaint that actually work is PGP, and that was the biggest thing I advocated in my time here. If I was LE and everyone had taken my advice, then I would have fucked my own investigation. Instead, they have 1.2 million unencrypted messages and who knows how many unencrypted addresses. If the server was being watched since July, they may also have thousands of addresses that are encrypted that would have otherwise been unencrypted, if it wasn't for the efforts of myself and others to challenge people to increase their security.You can believe what you want. I'm just an anonymous dude on the internet.You may remember, back about a year ago, there was an Aussie dude (Winters86) who said his family were all upper-echelon police officers. He claimed to have seen a report on Silk Road, and the gist of that report was that the one thing that the police feared most was that people would begin to learn and use software like PGP. As he stated in his post: 1. PGP is terrifying them, every new user who learns it and helps others learn, closes a possible loophole they where planning to exploit. 2. User ignorance of the technology being used (Tor, PGP etc) is the their single best hope for any kind of serious action against the SR community.This was over a year ago, that Winters86 pointed this out. A little over a year ago, I had an argument with another user over the terms in the Seller's Guide. I interpreted the terms as stating that vendors were required to use PGP, while the other person said that was not the case. DPR eventually weighed in, and sided with the other party, to my very great dismay. As much as parties like RxKing may have argued (and STILL argue) against its use, if use of PGP had been mandatory on SR, then the police would most certainly NOT be having the field day that they are now. The entire idea behind advocating PGP was as protection or insurance in case the server were ever seized or compromised, which is the _exact_ situation we're facing now. The people who used proper opsec (unlike DPR) have relatively little to fear. Astor, Guru, myself and others put in a lot of time trying to evangelize PGP, because it's effective -- it works. If Astor were truly a cop, he wouldn't be advocating use of a tool that would make their lives considerably harderNightcrawler4096R/BBF7433B 2012-09-22 Nightcrawler <Nightcrawler@SR>PGP Key: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=174.msg633090#msg633090 PGP Key Fingerprint = 83F8 CAF8 7B73 C3C7 8D07 B66B AFC8 CE71 D9AF D2F0