Quote from: wretched on September 21, 2012, 02:44 amShannon is Limetless! everybody panic!!!Errrr yup, Ima panicked :) :)--Don't worry about all of this thread lurkers! Paranoia is our occupational hazard. It should be the case for everybody too! I would much prefer kmfkewm (or me, or you) come out and say he sees something unusual than for everybody to just lie back and keep silent out of some civilian social convention that doesn't apply on here.It is easy to malign people for making a mistake (albeit I wouldn't classify this thread as a mistake at all, more like an observation than an accusation), but it should be realized that if we were not ever vigilant, we'd be on Topix and not SR, and people who use PGP would be laughed off as helplessly paranoid characters. The fact of the matter is that a great deal of people you may think were using PGP, were not using PGP, and I only know this because they have sent me PMs. I am happy about this, but more people need to come forward, out of the encryption closet as it were, and get this shit tap down. Pine respects people who are humble enough to admit they don't know something, and will help you understand PGP if you only try to join the Club.If you read enough intelligence documents, you will think this way too. If you go to prison, or your friends are kidnapped by the state for years, decades, then you'll think this way, but you don't need to have that happen to you.We don't need to make other people's mistakes in order to learn lessons from them. Look at the Farmer's Market. Look at the OVDB related busts. Look at what happened to Strike. In almost every single case, more vigilance and better operation security would have rescued them from being stuck behind bars. If LE makes a bust, 99/100 it is because of poor decision making by their target, and almost never through luck.There is of course a danger is searching for patterns, but if you use the tools of logic appropriately, like Occam's Razor and so forth, then you will be right most of the time. That's all vigilance requires, we don't require perfection on SR, only attention to detail and a good effort put in to learn stuff.If this was a physical space in the world, I would put up posters saying things like "Keep Watchful", similar to the "Loose lips sink subs" style of thing, but we don't have posters to put up, so we must all simply repeat sound advice over and over and over until it is commonsensical and obvious to every noob and nooblet. That is the ultimate buffer to the evils of Topix.I know there is a whole lot of lurkers on this forum, more so than most. But lurkers, you too have a responsibility to the upkeep of SR's security. If you know better, then you help your fellow man, or you become guilty of exclusively looking out for yourself. You did learn your trade somewhere and made mistakes too, you have an obligation to pass on the baton too.Don't think it doesn't mean anything to post here. It does. One single insightful realization or piece of intelligence can make a huge difference if articulated correctly. There is tonnes of black market lore that is not on this forum, both theoretical and practical knowledge, and it is inside the heads of these lurkers. The statistics say that there are ten times as many people just reading a forum in comparison to the number posting on it, so there is a vast repository of knowledge there which is currently completely untapped. You can lurk most of the time, but don't lurk without responsibility, give something back.