Quote from: b0m on March 22, 2013, 04:21 ambut what would they have from giving away addresses? they cant know what it is used for. also feds cant start investigating because of some company giving out addresses which they dont know what they are for. its not profitable for them... yet i have not seen anyone got busted for using these companys. and i feel it is needed to be proven before making things up. Im not a professional but as far as i know these companys encrypt the datas and cant even see em themselves. If that wasnt true im quite sure hackers would have already giving out some warnings. And if it was true it would be an easy way to get someone in trouble. Just post his address 20 times a day and watch him getting raided. i believe these speculations have no real ground to it and should be avoided until proven.Hushmail clearly stated in their tos that illegal use is forbidden and will be investigated. the one who overreads this its his own fault.Anyway i will keep using privnote. i feel its even safer than pgp. because like i stated in another thread - if someone other than the seller reads these information, then the seller cant read it anymore. so u can know for sure there is something wrong and prepare for it. Something u cant know using pgp i think If such companys have success with their services it would be dumb to give out addresses or whatever as it would kill their reputation in one day and nobody would use it anymore. I cant believe these rumors, im sorry.At the end of the day feds cant raid everyone for uploading their address to a site. and as your house should be clear of all illegal things nothing can happen to you anyway. as long as u r not hording drugs in your house u should be safe. If they ask u - never forget anybody can use ur address as a drop, u dont know anything. They have to prove it was you ordering. if ur not a pussy giving it all away urself there is nothing to be worry about in my opinion.most of the drugs getting sold here are self-use drugs not meant for selling. this fact makes it very unprofitable for feds to go after these addresses. one special officer costs more an hour than the average package that gets send from here.Anyway its late and i might be wrong with some points as i didnt thought them all through. just my 2 cents dont take it to serious :)I believe, possibly after exploding with the 1 divided by zeroness of it all, kmfkewm ("personal use lol") would label your post with the tag 'cognitive dissonance'. That is to say you are doing things incorrectly and pretending that you are not really doing anything dangerous with a series of extremely tenuous arguments.You are engaged in criminal activities on the internet. Law enforcement of a dozen countries wish to apprehend everybody and anybody associated with the Silk Road. It is assumed by most of us that the Silk Road servers have been hacked, or will be, and we behave accordingly by transmitting no personal identifying information in the clear by encrypting things like addresses with strong cryptography such as PGP.The Silk Road is a permeable network. Infiltrating it is the biggest waste of time in the world. It's parallel to being paid to be trolling 4chan. LEO might as well be pissing into a sea of piss. But that is only true if you are using PGP for personally identifiable information. Anything else and you're in the crosshairs sooner or later.At the end of the day the Feds can and will raid you in order to make an example of you, at least if they know who you are. While it's true they don't have much to go on in comparison to a typical illegal drug transaction, they have skilled interrogators who get people to confess their crimes nine times out of ten under the pressure. So it is best not to get into that situation in the first place. Hence Tor. Hence Bitcoin. Hence PGP. In fact in a way Tor and Bitcoin are just exotic arrangements of public key cryptography like PGP.For the record though, here is what they'll do.1. Hack into SR's servers. 2. Obtain 'encrypted' address data from various honeypots.3. Compare ciphertexts for matches.4. Use private key from honeypot to decrypt messages. (you don't believe they delete that shit, do you?)  4.1 Obtain adddress.  4.2 Red flag address. All packages will be now searched by united states postal police inspectors or similar.  4.3 Wait for multiple deliveries of drugs. Forward them on later with a marginal amount of drug and change the rest for filler.  4.4 Deliver packages on the same day. This is called a controlled delivery.  4.5 Wait five minutes after delivery.  4.6 Hammer time. High drama to follow.  4.7 LE agents explain how the accumulated quantity of drugs, while apparently possession quantities separately, collectively turn you into a uberdrugdealer, part of a giant criminal conspiracy and therefore you're looking at a minimum of 20 years in prison. 4.8 You either plea or you take that risk. People mostly don't. As in well over 90% of them.5. Encourage further use of shitty ideas like Privnote.This is not complicated. It is trivial. It's probably even easier than that. Just use PGP.QuoteIm not a professional but as far as i know these companys encrypt the datas and cant even see em themselves. If that wasnt true im quite sure hackers would have already giving out some warnings. notsureiftrolling.jpg