Silk Road forums
Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Dread Pirate Roberts on April 28, 2013, 09:57 am
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UPDATE (05/04/2013 2120 UTC): The site is back up. I'm not going to say we are out of the woods yet, but unless something unexpected happens, we should remain up for the foreseeable future.
UPDATE (05/05/2013 0100 UTC): We're still doing battle with this attacker. It seems he has prepared for this for a long time and has many tactics. We continue to use every resource at our disposal to overcome this situation. Thank you for your patience.
UPDATE (05/03/2013 0545 UTC): The attacks have been coming non-stop since my last update. We've been able to keep the site open more than half the time with only minor issues such as limited image uploading for vendors. Every hour we are making progress and I am feeling much more confident that we will come out on top within the next few days. Still, expect some unannounced down-time here and there.
UPDATE (05/01/2013 0238 UTC): Silk Road is open and accessible. As soon as the attacker finds out, he will likely change his tactics and try to take the site down again. Hopefully he won't be able to, but time will tell.
UPDATE (04/30/2013 2022 UTC): Still working on a solution. I haven't given up hope that we will be able to go forward as a public market without limiting access. We are putting all of our efforts into making that a reality. If that changes, I will let you know here.
UPDATE (04/30/2013 0035 UTC): We have come a long way in the battle, but still do not have the upper hand. It's looking more and more like a restructuring of the tor software or even the tor network will be required to mitigate the kind of attack we are under. If this can be solved by modifying the tor client software running the silk road .onion, then it will be a matter of patching and redeploying the hidden service. If it is a network issue, it will require the cooperation of the Tor developers, or running a new network of nodes. I haven't given up hope for a faster solution, but if one can not be found, then we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs. I'll keep everyone updated on how we will move forward, but please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access.
UPDATE (04/29/2013 0715 UTC): Just want to let you all know I'm still here and we're still doing battle behind the scenes to get the forums and main site running again. It is incredibly discouraging to have everything we've worked so hard for taken down by some anonymous and malevolent person, but your kind words of encouragement do wonders for our moral. We are on the cutting edge of anonymity technology here. The attacks being used against us MUST be overcome if Silk Road and any anonymous public sites are to have a future. Thank you again for your patience with all of this, and pray that we make it through stronger than we started.
We are being attacked once more. This time the forums are under attack as well. Access is intermittent, so hopefully some of you can read this. We are doing everything possible to overcome this latest attack. Please be patient while we find a solution.
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Good luck and I hope it's fixed soon.
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Great.... :-[
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Best of luck to you DPR. I can get on intermittently unlike the last time so hopefully this one is less serious.
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I thought I was alone on here for the last couple hours. Nice to finally see some people posting.
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I'm sure you'll fix it.
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Not alone...it's just extremely hard to log and post...
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Good luck DPR + others. Got every faith in you.
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Stay strong!
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Damn. No rest for the wicked.
Splash some holy water on that server and cast the demons out!
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I'm just finally able to get into the forums. Iv been trying for the last like 15 hours with no success.
This is the first time someone is attacking the forums. I wonder what this is.
Chaos
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I miss you guys, can't wait until everything is put right. Give it to em, DPR.
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Get the BASTARDS!!!! MAKE EM WALK THE PLANK! ;)
DPR - there are a lot of highly skilled technical people here that maybe not make obvious, would like you to post some more details about attacks as they happen, etc. separate post or something. Would like more info as things happen. Thanks for ALL!
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Good luck and keep us posted...This isn't the first time and it won't be the last and you guys always put us back online, so +++ and stay strong....Thank DPR and Crew...Much love SR...
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You know there is trouble when DPR posts a thread and its only one page!!!! Who is this attacker??
Chaos
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NOOOOOOOO!!!! Please slay these beasts DPR!!!
We are all behind you!!!
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I'm just finally able to get into the forums. Iv been trying for the last like 15 hours with no success.
This is the first time someone is attacking the forums. I wonder what this is.
Chaos
I'm going to go ahead and guess this is either the same attacker, or someone who watched last time, and noticed that the forums were a rallying point and a source of information. Take down both and people are in the dark. Fucking bastards, I've got business to do.
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I guess when they can't bust the website they resort to this. I'm willing to bet anything whoever is doing this is some "anti drug" nut or hired by one. Just goes to show how much prohibition and censorship stems from such a childish mentality, whoever is doing this needs to grow up.
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Excuse my technical ignorance but if these are ddos's, what is to stop the govt. investing money to constantly keep attacks up day in day out to these sorts of websites that start to gain prominence?
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Like fuck, on a Sunday? Really ?
I think this is a good clue as to who is behind it. At least we know the government would never work on a Sunday. Why on a slow day with no deliveries going out. ? There would have been much better times to attack if they really wanted to piss us off.
I suspect they just stopped their attack last time and made us think it was fixed. Watch out for posts that tell too much, they seem to know when you were trying to fix it last time. Dunno.
Is there a chance something was compromised , uploaded or downloaded from the server giving them access later down the road. Who knows. Thank god for PGP .
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Time to start DDOSing Atlantis
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Just got back onto the forums now, thanks for the update and once again for your tireless work!!!
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It'd be kind of cool if someone would claim responsibility for this. So we can retaliate and whatnot...
Bastards.
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figures those basterds would attack while DPR was being kind enough to offer the 10% off sale. this will help us to practice our patience im sure like always SR will pull through stronger that before.
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Make 'em pay . Especially the damages in lost sales.
I hope they get it good this time. Never piss off a pirate.
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It looks like we are back in business. 8)
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Excuse my technical ignorance but if these are ddos's, what is to stop the govt. investing money to constantly keep attacks up day in day out to these sorts of websites that start to gain prominence?
Terrifying thought, but not a thing, I would guess.
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Excuse my technical ignorance but if these are ddos's, what is to stop the govt. investing money to constantly keep attacks up day in day out to these sorts of websites that start to gain prominence?
Because it's illegal. :)
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Excuse my technical ignorance but if these are ddos's, what is to stop the govt. investing money to constantly keep attacks up day in day out to these sorts of websites that start to gain prominence?
Because it's illegal. :)
I'm guessing you're being ironic with the little smiley thing, right? Am I right???
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Get the BASTARDS!!!! MAKE EM WALK THE PLANK! ;)
DPR - there are a lot of highly skilled technical people here that maybe not make obvious, would like you to post some more details about attacks as they happen, etc. separate post or something. Would like more info as things happen. Thanks for ALL!
I agree with this but the flipside is more information often times helps the attacker figure out better ways to attack.
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whats the deal? cant a man just pay his drug dealer over the the internet nowadays?
what the fuck is the world coming to?
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To my knowledge maybe im wrong but if its under a DDOS attack, Not just 1 person could do it unless he has a HOIC OR LOIC on several computers firing over and over, and even then iv known hundreds of ppl get together to DDOS a child Porn and it took hours and hundreds of people constantly firing on the site..So my guess its not one person...
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Whatever the issue is...I sure hope it is fixed soon. I feel bad for all of the vendors n shit that need to make some money. Not to mention us dope heads that need to get fucked up lol
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This is why we should have mirror sites and change the back end addresses frequently.
Or acquire more back up addresses and just keep switching between them.
But really, they say its not possible to DDOS on TOR. Bandwidth limits and other egghead nonsense . So it must be a server software exploit of sorts? Fuck toss the untrustworthy hardware and rebuild from the ground up.
We need a WANTED POSTER
Dead or alive, turn in someone for $1,00,00.
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LoL i kinda figured this would happen...
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I bet it's the FBI/CIA/DEA/NSA/DHS or some shit just paying some people through intermediaries to attack the sites with DDOS and psyops...
Alphabet Mafia.
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It would be advantageous to have a second back up site. Not so much for the convenience of customers and vendors alike, but a re-direct making the attackers efforts a hopeless waste of time. Business can continue as usual, even if one system goes down. The secondary system should be the latest and the greatest in terms of firewall protection. My tech skills are not at that level, but we all know how many governments want to shut down the road. So the Road is going to require a strategy to survive
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any update DPR? People are saying that a Ddos attack is impossible with Tor, since you have to go through several hops of IP addresses of volunteer servers to connect and the bandwidth is limited. How then could a Ddos attack be so successful? Wouldn't someone have to attack most every TOR server, in which case, every website running on the TOR network would be clogged up - however, only SR is experiencing the problem, not other onion websites. I was under the impression that you can't target any one Onion website, since it is impossible to locate the server of any one Onion website.
Anyway, I could be wrong, I'm no computer expert. Does anyone who has some more expertise want to chime in?
At any rate, but do you have any updates DPR, or any SR admins? All of us vendors have a lot of orders piled up that need to be shipped out, perhaps you can create a non-public mirror Onion address that only the vendors can login to, in order to access our outstanding orders?
Thanks for all the hard work, hopefully a solution is found to deal with this problem!
QM
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My guess it's rival hidden service sites similar to our beloved SR.
Who else would benefit from such attacks?
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damn whats up with the attacks on SR guess the haters are going to hate
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is that whats causing me to get these messages?
onion.to
A connection to silkroadvb5piz3r.onion could not be established. General failure.
or this one:
onion.to
silkroadvb5piz3r.onion is currently unavailable. Proxy timed out while trying to connect. (4).
any info would be awesome!
much love_ mcrad!
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is that whats causing me to get these messages?
onion.to
A connection to silkroadvb5piz3r.onion could not be established. General failure.
or this one:
onion.to
silkroadvb5piz3r.onion is currently unavailable. Proxy timed out while trying to connect. (4).
any info would be awesome!
much love_ mcrad!
For one thing, you shouldn't be using the .to url to access the site ..... that is the clearweb-accessible url. You should be using the Tor Browser Bundle and NEVER using a .to link/url!
Correct url:
silkroadvb5piz3r.onion <--- not onion.to
Remove the .to!
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that .to automatically puts it up there. im running epiphany browser on liberte linux so all my network connections are torified.
check out liberte linux:)
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Take them out then - you shouldn't be browsing SR or the forums with the .to in the url.
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that .to automatically puts it up there. im running epiphany browser on liberte linux so all my network connections are torified.
check out liberte linux:)
Scout got schooled!
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My guess it's rival hidden service sites similar to our beloved SR.
Who else would benefit from such attacks?
every out of date govt in the world collecting cheques from global mafia syndicates perhaps?
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that .to automatically puts it up there. im running epiphany browser on liberte linux so all my network connections are torified.
check out liberte linux:)
Scout got schooled!
haha i wasnt trying to take anyone to school:P thanks for helping though scout. i switched back over to Windows to check the road. i still like using liberte linux. and as for the .to ; isnt that a command to run all connections through the tor network? thats what i thought atleast. i could be wrong though
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that .to automatically puts it up there. im running epiphany browser on liberte linux so all my network connections are torified.
check out liberte linux:)
Scout got schooled!
How did I get schooled? Have you not seen the influx of new users in the past 1-2 weeks which have been using .to urls to browse, post, buy, and vend here without understanding the risk of using the .to extension?
.to is a proxy for accessing Tor sites from the clearweb or non-Tor browsers. Whoever runs the .to proxy can access your traffic.
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that .to automatically puts it up there. im running epiphany browser on liberte linux so all my network connections are torified.
check out liberte linux:)
Scout got schooled!
.to is a proxy for accessing Tor sites from the clearweb or non-Tor browsers. Whoever runs the .to proxy can access your traffic.
Not quite. He explained that all of his network activity is torified. What traffic is there to see? They would merely see a Tor IP. Albeit, it would be simpler to just run the TBB.
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http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=77808
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=151488
Those are just two of the many, many threads discussing this. He is free to access SR how he wants, and Liberte is definitely a great set up, but why leave the .to in there when it's just as easy to remove it and not have to worry about what info is or is not available to the .to site owner? It's easier and simpler to remove it and not take the chance. I'm not just saying that for his benefit - because obviously if he's running Liberte, things are pretty secure, but I'm saying that because most people browsing with the .to in the url are NOT running Liberte or anything else for that matter -- most are simply browsing from the clearnet using the .to proxy to access onion sites. And for THOSE people, yes, it is dangerous.
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In fact, the .to proxy site itself warns users:
By using this service instead of connecting directly to the Tor network you are trading off security and anonymity for convenience. Know that we can identify the IP of visitors using this service (but chooses not to). We strongly recommended to access Tor Hidden Services directly using the Tor Browser Bundle to increase your security and anonymity.
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that .to automatically puts it up there. im running epiphany browser on liberte linux so all my network connections are torified.
check out liberte linux:)
Scout got schooled!
How did I get schooled? Have you not seen the influx of new users in the past 1-2 weeks which have been using .to urls to browse, post, buy, and vend here without understanding the risk of using the .to extension?
.to is a proxy for accessing Tor sites from the clearweb or non-Tor browsers. Whoever runs the .to proxy can access your traffic.
yeah...um...I don't really care?
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http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=77808
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=151488
Those are just two of the many, many threads discussing this. He is free to access SR how he wants, and Liberte is definitely a great set up, but why leave the .to in there when it's just as easy to remove it and not have to worry about what info is or is not available to the .to site owner? It's easier and simpler to remove it and not take the chance. I'm not just saying that for his benefit - because obviously if he's running Liberte, things are pretty secure, but I'm saying that because most people browsing with the .to in the url are NOT running Liberte or anything else for that matter -- most are simply browsing from the clearnet using the .to proxy to access onion sites. And for THOSE people, yes, it is dangerous.
EDIT:
In fact, the .to proxy site itself warns users:
By using this service instead of connecting directly to the Tor network you are trading off security and anonymity for convenience. Know that we can identify the IP of visitors using this service (but chooses not to). We strongly recommended to access Tor Hidden Services directly using the Tor Browser Bundle to increase your security and anonymity.
Every man for himself, I'm only concerned about my secruity
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That's totally fine, but I don't want to see a bunch of people putting themselves in danger - particularly since most don't seem to understand the importance of browsing directly through Tor (rather than the .to proxy). It's good that you already have a secure setup - just want to make sure to encourage others to do the same, that's all.
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That's totally fine, but I don't want to see a bunch of people putting themselves in danger - particularly since most don't seem to understand the importance of browsing directly through Tor (rather than the .to proxy). It's good that you already have a secure setup - just want to make sure to encourage others to do the same, that's all.
perfect man. +1 for looking out for everyone's safety:)
Much Love man _ McRad!
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I thought the previous downtime was meant to significantly strengthen SR's resistance to these attacks?
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Why are people always trying to fuck with our Silk Road flow?
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"The chain is only as strong as the weakest link"
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becoming a bit of a joke this. Not like you dont have the money to do a proper upgrade :(
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Does anyone else think it's competition doing this trying to get new customers? This is ridiculous.
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onion.to is a web site that allows people to access hidden tor services *without* using tor. It does this by passing them through a proxy that connects to the tor network.
If you access whateversite.onion.to without a tored connection, whoever it is that runs onion.to (apparently someone named XXor) can see your ip.
In addition, as far as we understand, going through onion.to allows the people running onion.to to see whatever data (i.e. everything on the page, including usernames, passwords, etc.) is being passed through, regardless of whether your initial connection to them is tored. Think about it this way: if you access facebook over tor, obviously facebook still knows what credentials you've logged in with -- they just don't know your ip.
Besides onion.to, there is also tor2web.org and maybe some other sites that do the same thing. Our way of thinking is that these sites are meant for people to be able to casually browse hidden services that contain static data (like leaked documents or something). They protect the web publisher, but not the web browser. And so they are definitely *not* meant for doing things like conducting business on SR.
And as for the government taking Sunday off, we weren't aware that we get a reprieve from police arrests or military bombings on the weekend.
tl;dr: Scout is 100% right.
P.S. DPR, keep on keeping on!
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I hate assholes who attack SR!!! whoever is responsible for the attack....FUCK YOU!!!!!
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SR is becoming nothing but a toy as its functionality is severely eroded (dare I say anihilated). Let's send good vibes to DPR and staff so they can overcome this.
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SR is definitely hard to access nowadays. This is getting kind of old. Even when it works, it is slow and inconsistent. Any chance BMR could recommend some ideas on how they do things? That site is always running and loads quickly. Not talking trash, just trying to come up with ideas and help SR not be slow or down all the time.
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Yes!!! Vanilla, I agree, we need to figure this security thing out. For all of our sakes. I know that all you top vendors have a lot of money sitting in your sr wallets, and who knows if these attacks are to help fluctuate the btc!! Please DPR please find the solution to this madness, whoever these evil people are need to get taught the fuck a lesson, THIS IS ENOUGH!!!
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SR is definitely hard to access nowadays. This is getting kind of old. Even when it works, it is slow and inconsistent. Any chance BMR could recommend some ideas on how they do things? That site is always running and loads quickly. Not talking trash, just trying to come up with ideas and help SR not be slow or down all the time.
That would be because BMR has an exponentially smaller volume of traffic and sales. It requires less bandwidth and isn't much of a threat or much of a target.
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I haven't even been able to get the login page to load.
or the homepage.
can anyone else get it to load?
I can't even TRY to log in. the main page always says "The connection has timed out."
I'm waiting on orders that would normally go out Monday but I haven't been able to check them all weekend.
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Hang in there SR.
And please let's not wine like greedy people about orders.
Let's send DPR some good vibes;).
And hopefully they will be able to take new measures since this is almost becoming a regular issue.
You go DPR!
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I give you all of my hash power DPR!!! Fight! win! or not either way we're here to stay!! SR Forever
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Sending good vibes your way DPR. Keep up the hard work.
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Seems to be working.
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I bet it's the FBI/CIA/DEA/NSA/DHS or some shit just paying some people through intermediaries to attack the sites with DDOS and psyops...
Alphabet Mafia.
Am I the only one who recalls the guy stating that he had discovered the actual ip address of Silk Road when they were doing maintenance a ways back? Would it make sense that
he was actually telling the truth and is now being an asshole because DPR did not give in to the blackmail that he obviously was under??
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I give you all of my hash power DPR!!! Fight! win! or not either way we're here to stay!! SR Forever
Ha, I like your style squirrel nuts. +1 to you.
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I still fail to see how a Ddos attack on a specific .onion site is even possible without knowing the specific server's location. Does this mean that someone has figured out where SR's servers are located? Bandwidth is limited for the Tor server volunteers, correct? Wouldn't an overload of data just make you lose connectivity with the Tor servers you are connected to? Am I wrong? If I'm right, what other possible method could someone have to slow down SR's servers to a crawl? Wow a lot of questions there, hope someone can answer some or all of them...
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Getting sick of these dirty rat dog ddos'ers. I think it must be a government somewhere because the whole bitcoin network has been getting hit by ddos attacks for a while now.All it's going to do though is point out weak points so we can work around them.
Thanks DPR and team keep fighting these rats off for us. you guys are legends!
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I think I'll cue up a track of mortar fire for times like these. We can all hunker down while the dust falls and the ground shakes.
Hang in there, brothers and sisters in arms.
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Imo it's most probably competition or government. Who else would bother go on a vendetta?
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this is so ghey
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If there is ANYTHING we can to to help - let us know.
This fucking sucks.
I can't believe what cunts people can be. (sorry for using the c word)
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I fear the worst... :(
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If this is the work of competition instead of LE, well, then this is just anarcho-capitalism in effect (ironic).
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I still fail to see how a Ddos attack on a specific .onion site is even possible without knowing the specific server's location. Does this mean that someone has figured out where SR's servers are located? Bandwidth is limited for the Tor server volunteers, correct? Wouldn't an overload of data just make you lose connectivity with the Tor servers you are connected to? Am I wrong? If I'm right, what other possible method could someone have to slow down SR's servers to a crawl? Wow a lot of questions there, hope someone can answer some or all of them...
So as I often point out as a disclaimer before I go shooting my mouth off about this, I don't do cracking. All this hacking and DoS rubbish just isn't my thing, but it's kind of related and kind of interesting, so I know a little bit about it. Still: take my words with a grain of salt. I'm no expert in this.
There are a ton of ways to perform a denial of service attack. Some cripple a machine by hitting it with too many requests at once that the actual operating system isn't able to handle, some don't try to paralyze the operating system at all but instead try to overload the web server software so that *it* gets crippled, some try to exploit specific vulnerabilities in a database connection so that even if the server software is functioning properly the site is still crippled because the database storing all the information is crippled... It goes on and on. Lots of ways nobody even knows yet, I'm sure. All of these systems are all interacting with each other using dozens of different standards and protocols. It's almost a miracle it works as well as it does to begin with.
There are two basic network connection protocols, TCP and UDP. TCP is what you usually think of an internet connection (like to a web page), and it's the connection type that Tor supports. UDP is often used for denial of service attacks, but Tor doesn't even support that protocol. You can't send information using UDP over Tor. Well... I hate to speak in absolutes, but basically it's just not possible.
So that's why everyone goes around saying you can't do distributed denial of service attacks via Tor. Because classically speaking, you can't. But a denial of service denies access to a given service. I don't know about you guys, but I'm sure as Hell being denied access to SR's forums. It also doesn't seem to have anything at all to do with the Tor network. The servers themselves are being (almost) crippled by a means other than what people usually are talking about when they say DDoS.
If you're really curious what may be going on, you can check out http://mixedbit.org/blog/2013/04/11/dos_attack_on_cdn_users.html -- I don't know that it has anything to do with anything here, but it may give you a better idea how a DoS can be done even with Tor. Or it may just confuse you more, I dunno... either way, there ya go.
By the way, I've been on the main Silk Road sight all night. Frankly I don't know what you guys are talking about, SR has been working just fine for me. The forums on the other hand......
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While I don't know anything about this kind of thing... would there be a way to create live mirrors of SR and the Forums across multiple hosts worldwide? Or even EVERY person that uses Silk Road? Kind of like a virus that replicates itself and becomes unstoppable (apologies for using Virus as the metaphor)
Is something like this possible without compromising security? Keeping the source files encrypted from the host?
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OP updated
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OP updated
Thanks for the update DPR.
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the update has me thinking this could be the end of SR?
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Hi DPR. Can you let us know in what form the attack is being made? You have a lot of clever people out here who may have some ideas if only we knew what we are dealing with.
Big love to you and thankyou for all your hard work!
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I am really getting sick of this shot. Just when I started ordering and still was planning a lot of orders the coming week, SR is has been like non stop. This way SR will loose a lot of users and vendors if it doesn't get fixed quickly. Will this be the end of SR ????? :'( I hope not.
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I don't think DPR is implying that it is the end of SR at all. They will get this fixed and win this battle too.
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All will be fine, just the usual trials and tribulations that makes this place so eventful ;)
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the update has me thinking this could be the end of SR?
No... It won't be the end. SR won't go down that easily. Sending good vibes.. !
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." -- Margaret Thatcher
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Power to you guys! All the best with sorting it out. In the long run, we will win for sure. LONG LIVE SR!!
Hope I can get back on and buy my item at a 10% discount still ;)
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Bastards... We will win through in the end though! ::) Long live SR! ;D
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I am really getting sick of this shot. Just when I started ordering and still was planning a lot of orders the coming week, SR is has been like non stop. This way SR will loose a lot of users and vendors if it doesn't get fixed quickly. Will this be the end of SR ????? :'( I hope not.
I don't think this will be the end of SR. As far as losing users and vendors, i'm personally fine with that. I believe that if these users/vendors are leaving because a couple of days of downtime, they should. This is a BLACK MARKET. People don't seem to understand that, they look at SR as an ebay for drugs and expect to get the same security that sites like ebay have to offer. This is not the case. Most vendors are here because they are well educated individuals that have products people want to buy at an amount where they see fit for running their operations. When they bought their vendor accounts, i'm pretty sure they thought of the possibility that SR will be going down for certain amounts of time. Like I said earlier, this is a BLACK MARKET, at the end of the day there is no security. If DPR wanted to flip and give all the information he or she has possession of, to LE, DPR could (just something to think about). I have faith in DPR, and everyone else should too. I see there's a lot of negativity in this thread right now regarding SR going down for good, don't think like that, negative vibes only bring negative things. Be thankful we have someone working so hard just to make sure that we can get our drugs safely.
Anyways, keep on fighting the good fight DPR! You truly are an inspiration to me as well as many others on and off the roads. Keep your head up, it's not a matter of IF you stop the attack, it's a matter of WHEN you stop the attack.
I enjoyed this little rant hahah alright goodnight world.
Peace,
STfish
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I agree STfish... maybe this will send the whiners packing.
Keep up the fight DPR! We are all rooting for you!
I don't use the SR IRC channel... any happenings over there, anyone?
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didnt mean to be a downer(and not the good kind) i just dont know much about this stuff just need someone to tell me it will be alright haha, i am more than thankful for everything hes doing
GO DPR!!!!
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the site is up everyone!!!
DPR is the shit! everyone knows that
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I agree STfish... maybe this will send the whiners packing.
Keep up the fight DPR! We are all rooting for you!
I don't use the SR IRC channel... any happenings over there, anyone?
I was wondering the same thing about the IRC channel...I never bothered getting on there.
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Good luck DPR, hope to see this fantastic site up and running again soon. I placed my first order last week, luckily it shipped out before this happened again. 8)
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Nor mine.
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I'll be damned. Just got a login screen...there is hope after all. I want to be careful and wait for the word from DPR though and make sure it is safe to log in.
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well keep trying i guess, its being really slow but im on:)
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Still down here...
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i got the access just now, is everything ok??
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is there some way a website thats being dossed can throw back shit at bots or inject popups into the bots host computer using the same type of exploit the host computer is infected with?
or even less - is there even an active way of retaliating against a mass of bots instead of just being totally powerless and adding bandwidth?
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Gods speed x
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everyone thinking this is the end need not to worry
this is still just the beginning
and some bastards out there don't like it..however with DPR and his teams hard work and we all keep the faith,silk road shall prevail
LONG LIVE SILK ROAD
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so what happens about orders that have auto finalized over these 4 days that havent been recieved?
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so what happens about orders that have auto finalized over these 4 days that havent been recieved?
I recall a post where DPR said auto-fin was halted until this was sorted out
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for all dudes out there :)
we will stay ;) :)))
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I was able to get to the login in screen but no further earlier this morning. Now nothing...
God I hate whoever is responsible for this!
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godspeed DPR and crew, long live silk road and viva la revolution!
thank god the forums are back up at least
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godspeed DPR and crew, long live silk road and viva la revolution!
thank god the forums are back up at least
+1 guys
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We are with you in spirit.. You are apart of history.. You will overcome this attack :)
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I would really like to know if the attackers have any demands, or if this is the American Catholic League or something.
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good luck gents! I dont care about the downtime. Nice to kick back for a while and troll the forums tbh, but definitely appreciate the work you are doing! Stick it to the man!
CD8N
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I would really like to know if the attackers have any demands, or if this is the American Catholic League or something.
If I had to guess:
-Atlantis
-BMR
-Some government agency or something.
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UPDATE (04/29/2013 0715 UTC): Just want to let you all know I'm still here and we're still doing battle behind the scenes to get the forums and main site running again. It is incredibly discouraging to have everything we've worked so hard for taken down by some anonymous and malevolent person, but your kind words of encouragement do wonders for our moral. We are on the cutting edge of anonymity technology here. The attacks being used against us MUST be overcome if Silk Road and any anonymous public sites are to have a future. Thank you again for your patience with all of this, and pray that we make it through stronger than we started.
We are being attacked once more. This time the forums are under attack as well. Access is intermittent, so hopefully some of you can read this. We are doing everything possible to overcome this latest attack. Please be patient while we find a solution.
We have your back DPR. Anything you need, just ask.
Go get 'em, tiger!
Modzi
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Good morning ,
Monday mornings eh ? nightmare , thank you for the information kept thinking it was my computer went through restart , uninstall etc etc , as vendors know Monday am is busy busy busy, anything you need from us vendors please let us know , we are here to support you , long live SR .
Kindest Regards
RP & Team
Buying Info for our clients
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=153141.0
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Hey guys, so is no-one able to get on right now? I can't get past the privoxy error screen and sometimes this is just linux or the network I guess, other times the road is down big time. I see this thread is up so I'm guessing on this occasion it's just down.
Shame it's been down so much lately, definitely caused a few disruptions to my usual business on the road but hey, I can kick back and relax for now with the perfect excuse.
DPR, love is with you and we support your every move, let's hope that this just makes the road a stronger and impenetrable fort for future attacks (wouldn't mind a bit more loading speed either haha).
Anyway, good luck to everyone, admin, vendors and buyers.
Thanks for all your work guys
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Looks like somebody has control of several nodes and is just replaying shit back at everybody. I just did a few tcp dumps and it looks as soon as SR starts to download I get garbage from somewhere else. Tor says fuck this don't look right, drops the connection and tries again. Over and over...
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So much loyalty for you DPR and team! Its not just a trading site, its a freedom movement. Sending you all my +ve energy.
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Atlantis was slow last night, window shoppers, or ddos?
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i got into my account like 20 minutes ago, all i was able to do was load my shopping cart and havent been able to do anything since. good luck DPR
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Attacking sr is wrong. I wish I could donate to DPR to help combat this scurge!!
Well, something like this could give us the opportunity to show how much we love this site.
I don't think it's realistic to think we could donate to DPR directly but maybe DPR could put up an official "help defend the site" listing on SR. It could be really cheap like a buck or two that everyone would see and could purchase, if they so desired.
With this we would help SR fortify their defenses, and anyone whos played risk knows how important that is.
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Attacking sr is wrong. I wish I could donate to DPR to help combat this scurge!!
Well, something like this could give us the opportunity to show how much we love this site.
I don't think it's realistic to think we could donate to DPR directly but maybe DPR could put up an official "help defend the site" listing on SR. It could be really cheap like a buck or two that everyone would see and could purchase, if they so desired.
With this we would help SR fortify their defenses, and anyone whos played risk knows how important that is.
Although I'm really waiting to get SR back up. I don't really think those few bucks would help. DPR and those who control the site have a pretty large income ;)
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Attacking sr is wrong. I wish I could donate to DPR to help combat this scurge!!
Well, something like this could give us the opportunity to show how much we love this site.
I don't think it's realistic to think we could donate to DPR directly but maybe DPR could put up an official "help defend the site" listing on SR. It could be really cheap like a buck or two that everyone would see and could purchase, if they so desired.
With this we would help SR fortify their defenses, and anyone whos played risk knows how important that is.
While I agree and any support is great, this will likely not do anything. DPR and the ones close to him are well off financially, and since you can't buy outside help in a matter like this the only thing it comes down to is a battle of wits (and attacker resources).
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DPR, you're a modern day hero. Every hour you spend improving and fixing the site is truly miraculous work. Stay strong and try not to stress out too much, I am confident you and your team will be able to overcome any obstacles as they come
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Still attacking?
What the fuck?
Someone out there really has it out for SR at the moment, the fact that I am able to type this let's me know that we are winning though.
Just like DPR mentioned before, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger...
Let's all hope the good people at SR work this out in a timely manner!
Goodluck DPR!
We're all rooting for you!
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The attacker must of seen the sr dropping there's fee's and thought it was a good time to attack again. all vendors must have loads in escrow at the moment. ; [
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How long can these attacks last?
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How many people use the road? 10,000? 100,000? You guys got me wondering now, how effective it would even be if even like 10% of the user base each donated a few bucks DPR and the team to help combat future attacks... hmm
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Go DPR!!!! Fuck all theses negative nancies talking about jumping ship!
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Lets all just hope this gets resolved in timely manner. In the short time ive been here this has happened 2 times. Crazy!
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How many people use the road? 10,000? 100,000? You guys got me wondering now, how effective it would even be if even like 10% of the user base each donated a few bucks DPR and the team to help combat future attacks... hmm
Sounds like you were the culprit who sent out the PLEASE DONATE TO DPR messages. Daresay, scammer???
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God Bless!
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Is there anyway to know if this is a collective group up against SR or an individual? An individual would just be a competitor or pissed off SR user and a collective group that strategises could more probably be government attack.
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How many people use the road? 10,000? 100,000? You guys got me wondering now, how effective it would even be if even like 10% of the user base each donated a few bucks DPR and the team to help combat future attacks... hmm
Sounds like you were the culprit who sent out the PLEASE DONATE TO DPR messages. Daresay, scammer???
How do we know YOU'RE not the alien?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street
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How many people use the road? 10,000? 100,000? You guys got me wondering now, how effective it would even be if even like 10% of the user base each donated a few bucks DPR and the team to help combat future attacks... hmm
Sounds like you were the culprit who sent out the PLEASE DONATE TO DPR messages. Daresay, scammer???
I really doubt DPR need any donation seriously.
More user on the site, more money he make, one vendor that sell for 100k in the month, dpr will make some % of that, all buyer pay a certain fees to buy things, and its normal.
Those fees are to maintain the quality of the site, to maintain servers, but please, dont say to people to also donate....
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Im In!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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How many people use the road? 10,000? 100,000? You guys got me wondering now, how effective it would even be if even like 10% of the user base each donated a few bucks DPR and the team to help combat future attacks... hmm
Money, IS NOT the problem...
If we could fix this with money it would have long been fixed.
The problem is that there are people who can solve this attack within a minute, but can DPR trust those people enough to give them access to the site, NO!
So he has to be the mastermind he is & play with it himself until fixed!!!
It'll be in a timely manner, but I do hope full time, uninterrupted, accessibility to SR is in our near future!
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It truly is times like these where you realize how important the silk road is. This site is perhaps the most important staple in the free world. Being on here the past year, I have met some truly amazing people, and getting to share ideas with like-minded people all under the security of this site, has been quite the experience. I definitely see this site as a catalyst in the progression / evolution of society.
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Well that was short lived.. was on just long enough to see my order still processing.. damn..
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I'd expect DPR has a team of computer technicians/ hackers and isn't fighting this alone, no?
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Well, its so-so, cant check my account to move out btc, always fails but can browse and see that my order has yet to be shipped... FML
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lol its all good placing suspicion is a good way to pass the time. But I would never suggest donations I would only feel comfortable doing something on the SR site itself.
Well if DPR has all the money he needs I can only send him my good vibrations.
Is there anyway to know if this is a collective group up against SR or an individual? An individual would just be a competitor or pissed off SR user and a collective group that strategies could more probably be government attack.
In the posts DPR said it was an individual and a DDOS attack can be done through a ton of infected computers so it could be just one person with a ton of bots who knows. If DPR does know I imagine that means they had some kind of blackmailing incident, ooo speculation is fun! let the user hate begin
**NOTE had to edit misspelled DPR, how could I do that...
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I'd expect DPR has a team of computer technicians/ hackers and isn't fighting this alone, no?
I expect so, but it could very well be a single engineer/developer... In which case he would be very fucking busy indeed.
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Is there anyway to know if this is a collective group up against SR or an individual? An individual would just be a competitor or pissed off SR user and a collective group that strategises could more probably be government attack.
You would have to be on the inside to find out I would imagine.
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New post in noob-pergatory:
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=153148.0
About this fake SR login:
http://hvstenv3nrb5xake.onion/
Note next to PIN request:
Due to the recent hacking attempts on our database, users are temporarily required to provide additional authentication details at login.
Scammers behind attack, or chancers?
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Man I would love to be on the inside, uh wait you know thats not what I meant..
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Was able to finally get my account emptied.. No more coins in SR so now I will leave it alone so that others that are trying can maybe get on.. Hoping to check back later today and all of this be a thing of the past and to have my order listed as shipped!! Keep it up DPR, I hope we overcome this sooner than later..
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Im back on again
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I'm trying to get on to finalise orders for some very nice vendors...But I have no access. How is it that some people can get on and others can't?
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hopefully this all gets fixed soon. i can re call SR being down for about a week way back when and everyone was sweating it bad. this is bad enough.
wish there was something we could do to help.
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New post in noob-pergatory:
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=153148.0
About this fake SR login:
http://hvstenv3nrb5xake.onion/
Note next to PIN request:
Due to the recent hacking attempts on our database, users are temporarily required to provide additional authentication details at login.
Scammers behind attack, or chancers?
probably opportunistic scammers
i smoked way to much weed to ever get up to speed with people like that.
im still at the "woaahhh... dude...." pure stoner stage of the shock of the timeout.
lucky i wasnt on meth or i might not have moved or took a sip of water for a whole 12 hours...
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I have had no issues with the forums at all this morning. However, the main site is snafu atm for me still. I gave up clicking on the main site for the rest of the morning. I'm going to let DPR and his crew do what they do and I'll click more later.
This site is one the most amazing things I have been a part of. I feel very fortunate too be able to take part in it. Thank you DPR and all those who make this possible and thank you for your diligence in trying to keep it running smoothly. It cannot be easy with so many wolves trying to get to the flock.
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I'd expect DPR has a team of computer technicians/ hackers and isn't fighting this alone, no?
On his own
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The problem is that there are people who can solve this attack within a minute, but can DPR trust those people enough to give them access to the site, NO!
So he has to be the mastermind he is & play with it himself until fixed!!!
I was thinking about this... but from what it sounds like:
We are on the cutting edge of anonymity technology here. The attacks being used against us MUST be overcome if Silk Road and any anonymous public sites are to have a future.
...I don't think he's alone. Sounds to me like "other network" people might be lending a hand; I mean if SR can be killed, tor itself can be killed. Maybe not today, but tomorrow... and that would be really scary. This point also makes me believe this attack isn't from the competition.
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If you guy's are getting on even for a moment, then things are improving, and DPR is doing a good job getting things up so quickly. These attacks are annoying, but they are hardly serious. I mean the attackers have not tried to gain entry into the site enough to access information or to steal bitcoins. If bitcoins are what the attackers are after. So far that doesn't seem to be the case.
They have yet to bring the site down for even 2 days, a good fuck you hack, would be considerably more damaging. Like the hack Anonymous did to Stratfor, the U.S. Intelligence Cyber Security Company. Now there was some " serious Fuck You" hacking.
Any kindergartener can download a LOIC and ping an IP. Doing that over the TOR network requires some adjustment I would imagine, but Silk Road still has to have an IP to be identified by our computers, but the IP doesn't have to be associated with any physical address in TOR.
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Thank you much DPR, I'm very grateful to be a part of something as revolutionary and ground breaking as SR. 20 years from now I'll be able to say I was here when the world changed irrevocably. Keep up the good fight DPR. :D
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How sad do you have to be to do this though
Im imagining a man sat in a dark roomstaring at his computer screen laughing his head off at the text walls his ddoser is producing
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Its back up the passed 30 mins and is fast, ive been able to send messages.
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lol its all good placing suspicion is a good way to pass the time. But I would never suggest donations I would only feel comfortable doing something on the SR site itself.
Well if DPR has all the money he needs I can only send him my good vibrations.
Is there anyway to know if this is a collective group up against SR or an individual? An individual would just be a competitor or pissed off SR user and a collective group that strategies could more probably be government attack.
I was just poking a little fun your way. Glad to see that you took it as just that. If you don't recall, there was an extortion attempt made where some guy on reddit claimed to have the true IP address of SR. It was blown out of people's asses when the announcement was made but, it could have been the reason that we are going through this crap now. If this is the case, hopefully DPR is on top of it already.
In the posts DPR said it was an individual and a DDOS attack can be done through a ton of infected computers so it could be just one person with a ton of bots who knows. If DPR does know I imagine that means they had some kind of blackmailing incident, ooo speculation is fun! let the user hate begin
**NOTE had to edit misspelled DPR, how could I do that...
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If a rat can poke it's head throw a whole, it can fit its body through too. What needs to happen is for someone to be there when it tries to poke its head through and cut the fucker off. =)
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If you guy's are getting on even for a moment, then things are improving, and DPR is doing a good job getting things up so quickly. These attacks are annoying, but they are hardly serious. I mean the attackers have not tried to gain entry into the site enough to access information or to steal bitcoins. If bitcoins are what the attackers are after. So far that doesn't seem to be the case.
They have yet to bring the site down for even 2 days, a good fuck you hack, would be considerably more damaging. Like the hack Anonymous did to Stratfor, the U.S. Intelligence Cyber Security Company. Now there was some " serious Fuck You" hacking.
Any kindergartener can download a LOIC and ping an IP. Doing that over the TOR network requires some adjustment I would imagine, but Silk Road still has to have an IP to be identified by our computers, but the IP doesn't have to be associated with any physical address in TOR.
I agree, I find this to be a very positive report, it seems more and more users are now able to at least access their accounts, whereas nobody seemed to be able to even get to the login screen all day Sunday. Any improvement is progress. RevDrGod, you seem to have some more in depth knowledge on how DDOS attacks could be carried out over the TOR network, care to share any insights with us?
I don't think throwing money at DPR would help at all, if it would then he would be asking for donations. He has all the money he could ever want to play around with, it's just a matter of having the right people on his side that can be trusted. If DPR was smart enough to create Silk Road in the first place, he was smart enough to predict that things like this could happen, and wouldn't have started SR without having a good security team in place. They stopped the last DDOS attack last week and I'm sure they are smart enough to eventually overcome this latest attack and all future attacks. SR won't end because of a DDOS, that's for sure.
I wouldn't worry about the attackers hacking into SR, a DDOS is far from that, it's basically just throwing junk information at SR and overloading the servers so real users can't gain access. Hacking into SR and stealing account info and bitcoins is an entirely different beast. Like RevDrGod said, anybody can download a LOIC and ping an IP, carrying out a DDOS is easy relative to actually hacking into SR and stealing coins and account info.
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login screen is back!!!
but slow as hell... but still!!!!
*edit* hmmm down again.. oh well :)
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login screen is back!!!
but slow as hell... but still!!!!
*edit* hmmm down again.. oh well :)
I was just going to ask if I could come over and borrow your comp. =p =)
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How sad do you have to be to do this though
Im imagining a man sat in a dark roomstaring at his computer screen laughing his head off at the text walls his ddoser is producing
A DDOS attack without the Hack is pretty low quality, probably a government hack job. You know the DEA and US Congressman Chuck Schumer have declared war against Silk Road, I guess that really goes without saying. So this low quality hack is probably a government collaboration. ou know it takes a lot more of them to think like one of us because they don't do drugs ;D
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There has to be a solution for this, otherwise TOR bundle is pure garbage. . . someone should let the TOR people know that there is a flaw in their software and its volnerable to attacks. They should've accounted for this type of attack (or maybe they did). . .
This makes TOR useless it was designed to provide people with a means to speak out without being forced to be quiet. Now, we see that freedom of speech can be controlled by others. Any government can use the same attack to shut people up using TOR.
Its a dark day for mankind and liberal freedoms.
This jeopardizes the entire TOR concept. Whats the purpose of onion sites then, if they can be censored so easily?
Any chance that the government or anyone has asked the TOR developers to write in a way to stop a rouge site or person- and now they are using it to stop this site? Rollback the TOR software version to a previous version to see if a recent update has made an attack possible, or maybe it was possible all along and nobody exploited it yet?
I think TOR is behind this in some way.
My guess is:
- the US military is testing out their new toys on us. We are a testing website now for attack tools. A fun challenge for others to attack. They got the go ahead to cripple the site, or use it as a training tool.
- Internet warfare using brute force on enemy targets on the internet. SR is a threat to American economy and conservative social views. Its a fairly legit reason to attack us using military grade networking gear designed to cripple enemy networks.
- People at TOR were asked to provide a means of stopping rouge websites on TOR in the name of national security. They had a method all along, or just created one.
Libertarian views are taking a hit.
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There has to be a solution for this, otherwise TOR bundle is pure garbage. . . someone should let the TOR people know that there is a flaw in their software and its volnerable to attacks. They should've accounted for this type of attack (or maybe they did). . .
This makes TOR useless it was designed to provide people with a means to speak out without being forced to be quiet. Now, we see that freedom of speech can be controlled by others. Any government can use the same attack to shut people up using TOR.
Its a dark day for mankind and liberal freedoms.
This jeopardizes the entire TOR concept. Whats the purpose of onion sites then, if they can be censored so easily?
Any chance that the government or anyone has asked the TOR developers to write in a way to stop a rouge site or person- and now they are using it to stop this site? Rollback the TOR software version to a previous version to see if a recent update has made an attack possible, or maybe it was possible all along and nobody exploited it yet?
I think TOR is behind this in some way.
My guess is:
- the US military is testing out their new toys on us. We are a testing website now for attack tools. A fun challenge for others to attack. They got the go ahead to cripple the site, or use it as a training tool.
- Internet warfare using brute force on enemy targets on the internet. SR is a threat to American economy and conservative social views. Its a fairly legit reason to attack us using military grade networking gear designed to cripple enemy networks.
- People at TOR were asked to provide a means of stopping rouge websites on TOR in the name of national security. They had a method all along, or just created one.
Libertarian views are taking a hit.
Tor was created by the US Navy in i think it was 2001. Also, when I first started testing the tor waters I used that bundle...I quickly felt it was unsafe and switched to a thumbdrive and liberte linux (you can also use tales).
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If you guy's are getting on even for a moment, then things are improving, and DPR is doing a good job getting things up so quickly. These attacks are annoying, but they are hardly serious. I mean the attackers have not tried to gain entry into the site enough to access information or to steal bitcoins. If bitcoins are what the attackers are after. So far that doesn't seem to be the case.
They have yet to bring the site down for even 2 days, a good fuck you hack, would be considerably more damaging. Like the hack Anonymous did to Stratfor, the U.S. Intelligence Cyber Security Company. Now there was some " serious Fuck You" hacking.
Any kindergartener can download a LOIC and ping an IP. Doing that over the TOR network requires some adjustment I would imagine, but Silk Road still has to have an IP to be identified by our computers, but the IP doesn't have to be associated with any physical address in TOR.
I agree, I find this to be a very positive report, it seems more and more users are now able to at least access their accounts, whereas nobody seemed to be able to even get to the login screen all day Sunday. Any improvement is progress. RevDrGod, you seem to have some more in depth knowledge on how DDOS attacks could be carried out over the TOR network, care to share any insights with us?
I don't think throwing money at DPR would help at all, if it would then he would be asking for donations. He has all the money he could ever want to play around with, it's just a matter of having the right people on his side that can be trusted. If DPR was smart enough to create Silk Road in the first place, he was smart enough to predict that things like this could happen, and wouldn't have started SR without having a good security team in place. They stopped the last DDOS attack last week and I'm sure they are smart enough to eventually overcome this latest attack and all future attacks. SR won't end because of a DDOS, that's for sure.
I wouldn't worry about the attackers hacking into SR, a DDOS is far from that, it's basically just throwing junk information at SR and overloading the servers so real users can't gain access. Hacking into SR and stealing account info and bitcoins is an entirely different beast. Like RevDrGod said, anybody can download a LOIC and ping an IP, carrying out a DDOS is easy relative to actually hacking into SR and stealing coins and account info.
I really don't know how to go about running a LOIC in the TOR network, it is not something I have ever done. I only understand how that works on the clear net. From what I have read about hack jobs, serious hacks are usually after something, hear it appears that they have just shut us down temporarily.
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Whats the purpose of onion sites then, if they can be censored so easily?
If it was easy it would have been happening since the first week. If it was easy many peolpe would have extorted DPR by now. If it was easy there wouldn't be child porn onions. The fact is that this is not an easy attack to accomplish.
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You relies this has nothing to do with TOR right ? Its not like the TOR network is under attack.
The forums are working... all the other sites are working... its just someone is targeting SR.
if we werent running through TOR it would be 1000 times easier to DOS and it would of been done a long time ago....
The TOR network is fine... and If i'm not mistaken it was originally designed to allow people to get messages out of countries securely..
pretty sure it will be the SR servers that are overloaded.. which is why everything else works..
There has to be a solution for this, otherwise TOR bundle is pure garbage. . . someone should let the TOR people know that there is a flaw in their software and its volnerable to attacks. They should've accounted for this type of attack (or maybe they did). . .
This makes TOR useless it was designed to provide people with a means to speak out without being forced to be quiet. Now, we see that freedom of speech can be controlled by others. Any government can use the same attack to shut people up using TOR.
Its a dark day for mankind and liberal freedoms.
This jeopardizes the entire TOR concept. Whats the purpose of onion sites then, if they can be censored so easily?
Any chance that the government or anyone has asked the TOR developers to write in a way to stop a rouge site or person- and now they are using it to stop this site? Rollback the TOR software version to a previous version to see if a recent update has made an attack possible, or maybe it was possible all along and nobody exploited it yet?
I think TOR is behind this in some way.
My guess is:
- the US military is testing out their new toys on us. We are a testing website now for attack tools. A fun challenge for others to attack. They got the go ahead to cripple the site, or use it as a training tool.
- Internet warfare using brute force on enemy targets on the internet. SR is a threat to American economy and conservative social views. Its a fairly legit reason to attack us using military grade networking gear designed to cripple enemy networks.
- People at TOR were asked to provide a means of stopping rouge websites on TOR in the name of national security. They had a method all along, or just created one.
Libertarian views are taking a hit.
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You relies this has nothing to do with TOR right ? Its not like the TOR network is under attack.
The forums are working... all the other sites are working... its just someone is targeting SR.
if we werent running through TOR it would be 1000 times easier to DOS and it would of been done a long time ago....
The TOR network is fine... and If i'm not mistaken it was originally designed to allow people to get messages out of countries securely..
pretty sure it will be the SR servers that are overloaded.. which is why everything else works..
There has to be a solution for this, otherwise TOR bundle is pure garbage. . . someone should let the TOR people know that there is a flaw in their software and its volnerable to attacks. They should've accounted for this type of attack (or maybe they did). . .
This makes TOR useless it was designed to provide people with a means to speak out without being forced to be quiet. Now, we see that freedom of speech can be controlled by others. Any government can use the same attack to shut people up using TOR.
Its a dark day for mankind and liberal freedoms.
This jeopardizes the entire TOR concept. Whats the purpose of onion sites then, if they can be censored so easily?
Any chance that the government or anyone has asked the TOR developers to write in a way to stop a rouge site or person- and now they are using it to stop this site? Rollback the TOR software version to a previous version to see if a recent update has made an attack possible, or maybe it was possible all along and nobody exploited it yet?
I think TOR is behind this in some way.
My guess is:
- the US military is testing out their new toys on us. We are a testing website now for attack tools. A fun challenge for others to attack. They got the go ahead to cripple the site, or use it as a training tool.
- Internet warfare using brute force on enemy targets on the internet. SR is a threat to American economy and conservative social views. Its a fairly legit reason to attack us using military grade networking gear designed to cripple enemy networks.
- People at TOR were asked to provide a means of stopping rouge websites on TOR in the name of national security. They had a method all along, or just created one.
Libertarian views are taking a hit.
good point! +1
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DPR, you have the full support of this community. Thank you for working so hard on this noble endeavor.
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anyone clicked refresh over 200 times today ?
I have :(
funny thing is.. I dont even want to buy anything..atm... . I just like to browse haha
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You relies this has nothing to do with TOR right ? Its not like the TOR network is under attack.
The forums are working... all the other sites are working... its just someone is targeting SR.
if we werent running through TOR it would be 1000 times easier to DOS and it would of been done a long time ago....
The TOR network is fine... and If i'm not mistaken it was originally designed to allow people to get messages out of countries securely..
pretty sure it will be the SR servers that are overloaded.. which is why everything else works..
Yes, the rest of Tor is working fine atm... but if this attack works on SR, soon the rest of Tor may not be working. This attack just needs to be expanded.
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anyone clicked refresh over 200 times today ?
I have :(
funny thing is.. I dont even want to buy anything..atm... . I just like to browse haha
I was doing it in hopes, that my next click, would be the click home (terrible Quantum Leap Reference). :o
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ya it could happen to other sites... but its the same as the normal internet or clearnet as you folks like to call it..
problem is getting enough resources to DDOS every single site at the same time..
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we need one of those drinking birds that can hit the 'any' key for us :p
alltho us constantly refreshing probably isnt helping at all.. I might stop hehe.
anyone clicked refresh over 200 times today ?
I have :(
funny thing is.. I dont even want to buy anything..atm... . I just like to browse haha
I was doing it in hopes, that my next click, would be the click home (terrible Quantum Leap Reference). :o
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we need one of those drinking birds that can hit the 'any' key for us :p
alltho us constantly refreshing probably isnt helping at all.. I might stop hehe.
anyone clicked refresh over 200 times today ?
I have :(
funny thing is.. I dont even want to buy anything..atm... . I just like to browse haha
I was doing it in hopes, that my next click, would be the click home (terrible Quantum Leap Reference). :o
You're probably right. :)
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Thanks for your Work ! ;)
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This is....Sparta!!!
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Keep the internet Fair and Open...........
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Keep the internet Fair and Open...........
I hope you are not accessing this through the internet (clearnet). :-\
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I have just logged in!!
speed seems ok!!!
we are back.. atleast for a min or two !!
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I have just logged in!!
speed seems ok!!!
we are back.. atleast for a min or two !!
LIES! lol, :)
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nah nah im serious :)
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I got on just now and was able to log in and see my orders which normally would have been shipped by now are all "processing" which sucks but I pretty much expected that after today so I'll probably take a chill pill and relax. It's nice that clearly some progress has been made, until now I wasn't able to get on at all since yesterday. So hopefully things will balance out soon and the vendors will ship orders again tomorrow.
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It's not working for this honky. :o
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This sucks, trying to get some big orders in. :(
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I can't even get a log on screen :(
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you might be on a crap tor node.
try 'use new identiy' and if that fails, disconnect tor and reconnect.
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No luck for me since yesterday afternoon. Now i know very little about all the technological side of whats going on however maybe there's a possibility this atlantis (or whatever its called) site is causing the attack to temp new customers onto their site. With SR out the way other competitors would benefit. Just a theory.
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IM ONLINE!!! YEEAH BUDDIE
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Thank you DPR for taking the hard road and facing this attack face on! You have moral support from most users here who believe in the underlying philosophy that started this whole movement. Good vibes and much love.
Everybody else, have patience.
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I just managed to log on to SR now! I hadn't been able to since last night.
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I'm on.
Thank you for staying persistent, DPR.
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I still cannot get in! :( have not been able to since early yesterday and even then it crashed before I could fill any orders or answer any messages :(
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And were baaaaacckkk! ;D
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Still cant get on either. Maybe down to sheer volume of people trying to log in at same time. Luckily us silkroaders are persistent!!
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I'm in!!! ;D
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Glad to see everyone saying they are in, hopefully I can get in soon as well.....
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I managed to login long enough to FE my orders and transfer some BTC to another wallet. Hopefully this BS will come to an end soon. Thanks to DPR and everybody involved in solving this problem.
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I manged to finalize my orders too. I feel sorry DPR has to deal with shit, but he has my gratitude for all the hard work he puts in to making SR the best damn market that has ever existed.
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to the hacker: i hope you got enough money from atlantis to do this. Would love to see that shit getting financially destroyed, just to bring down SR.
THEY CANT STOP SR, THERE IS NO OTHER COMMUNITY LIKE THIS, WITH SO LOVE AND TRUST, YOU CAN ONLY MAKE US STRONGER.
I like how the site was running after the first DOS attack... so smooth, max 10sec to load every page. i hope SR bring it back to that state soon, and i know he will.
For the moment, i am able to login at last, and browse (could not for the last 30 hours)
so i m glad you are making a progress, and we are all sure that SR will get stronger out of this.
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still no luck for me =/
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Still NADA for me.... ???
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Still NADA for me.... ???
still no luck for me =/
Still cant get on either. Maybe down to sheer volume of people trying to log in at same time. Luckily us silkroaders are persistent!!
I still cannot get in! :( have not been able to since early yesterday and even then it crashed before I could fill any orders or answer any messages :(
No luck for me either.
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Login page came up but I can't log in, just sits there connecting. The page isn't timing out though so I'm also guessing sheer volume.
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I logged in, try using a new identity. Or just go back to real life for a day. I'm sure it'll be smooth tomorrow ;D
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Working beautifully for me the last 30 minutes,made an order no problems.
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DAMN! Was working great for about that long for me also. :(
At least I got my Orders page brought up. :D
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I can't get on yet, but I love seeing that people are getting back on! I have a huge amount of orders to fill, for all my customers who are waiting, thank you for your patience, see my feedback thread for updates on when your order will ship: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=30964.msg347996#msg347996
I don't know if you will read my post DPR, but if you do...
I read something DPR said, that was in that Forbes article of all his quotes, that resonated with me. DPR said "I’m out to turn unconscious agorists into conscious active ones"...
Well consider me an unconscious agorist turned into conscious active one. I couldn't agree with DPR more on almost everything he stands for. SR is about personal liberty and every single transaction made on SR is one more step taken for our God-given freedom to do what we want with ourselves as free human beings, because it is a step taken that the State had no control over. Being one of the top vendors here, I don't take my responsibility as a vendor lightly on SR, I know I'm part of something big, all the DDOS attacks in the World won't stop.
Thanks DPR for fighting the good fight, and know we're all here backing you up. Maybe someday, when the World is different, we can meet under different circumstances and have a few beers and a few laughs...
...maybe.
QM
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We have this page
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
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The DDoS probably stopped ages ago and now it's all of us perpetuating the problem by constantly hitting refresh to see if our orders are being posted or not!
I managed to get on for about 30 minutes there but it's stopped working again.
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I got in just long enough to spend 10BTC and then locked out again =p
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Well I managed to get to my order page at last, but it's too late to ship today now :(
Rest assured they'll all be shipped tomorrow morning even if i can't log on to confirm shipments :)
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Not working for me at all..can't even get to the login page
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Perhaps tomorrow will be a 'business as usual' day on the road. =) Because, I have not even been able to wish the login page to load for me.
Also getting a lot of errors for the forums now.
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DPR will solve as soon possible.
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It's Monday here, Tuesday some places. Sucks for me cuz I wanted to get some stuff by the end of the week now maybe not but its all good.
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My predicament is that i've placed my order,s 2 of which need to be FE before being sent out and i cannot get on to FE argggggggggg :(
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Back from vacation and now I can't log in--as if my vacation ending wasn't depressing enough ;-)
I'm sure DPR 'n 'em will get things sorted in the coming days. It's just a sad truth that SR is such a high profile target for these attacks. The price we all pay for being participants in arguably the greatest expression of personal liberty that has ever existed.
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Naw, it's completely dead. Haven't been able to get in for two days now. Those who could get in, that means it has sporadic availability.
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My predicament is that i've placed my order,s 2 of which need to be FE before being sent out and i cannot get on to FE argggggggggg :(
Ah I feel you, me too, but I was able to get on like less than 12 hours ago. They didn't place anything in transit yet and they can't get on either...
It will be over soon
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My predicament is that i've placed my order,s 2 of which need to be FE before being sent out and i cannot get on to FE argggggggggg :(
Same here, it's really frustrating.
"Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (index)"
^is all I get when I try to load the site.
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My predicament is that i've placed my order,s 2 of which need to be FE before being sent out and i cannot get on to FE argggggggggg :(
Ah I feel you, me too, but I was able to get on like less than 12 hours ago. They didn't place anything in transit yet and they can't get on either...
It will be over soon
Yeah there's no point rushing to FE when the vendors most likely can't handle your order right now even if you do, hopefully the site will be running normal again tomorrow. Was able to get on for about 40 min and handle some business, but of course none of my orders had been shipped (or at least they hadn't been marked in transit). What I find strange is that these attacks always seem to be on Mondays or Sundays? Anyone know what's up with that?
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Lol this sucks for everybody, vendors especially, but it says something about this place that we are all "upset" (for lack of better word) that a mail order illegal drugs anonymous internet marketplace is down for a couple days. Whatever we see this as in a few years, I'm glad I'm a part of it.
I do wish I could know the status of my orders though...
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I managed to get all my orders posted out and confirmed today..
I have made some orders myself im unsure about but sure i will fond out soon it can wait..
Big up again DPR and all the cru.. thanks for all the time and effort put into this..
AND A MASSIVE FUCK YOU to the nob ed causing these problems!!
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UPDATE (04/29/2013 0715 UTC): Just want to let you all know I'm still here and we're still doing battle behind the scenes to get the forums and main site running again. It is incredibly discouraging to have everything we've worked so hard for taken down by some anonymous and malevolent person, but your kind words of encouragement do wonders for our moral. We are on the cutting edge of anonymity technology here. The attacks being used against us MUST be overcome if Silk Road and any anonymous public sites are to have a future. Thank you again for your patience with all of this, and pray that we make it through stronger than we started.
We are being attacked once more. This time the forums are under attack as well. Access is intermittent, so hopefully some of you can read this. We are doing everything possible to overcome this latest attack. Please be patient while we find a solution.
you need some load balancers or multiple URLs to juggle between... ive said it multiple times
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Am I the only one still not able to access anything? Haven't had a successful page load in at least a day...
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This shit really sux. We were able to get on for a little while today. Enough time at least to get ALL our orders out today.
Figured this would be the best place to let all our customers know.
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Am I the only one still not able to access anything? Haven't had a successful page load in at least a day...
No sir. I must have clicked 5,000 times and I have not even seen the login screen. I tried the browser and my normal method. Nothing...frown face with clown hat on
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I'm so bored without SR, its more fun or wait no its more addictive then most of the shit I do.
QUESTION: Hey can anyone help me understand something.. I'm still really new to alot of this stuff so explain slow...why does reddit have so many posts about SR?
Every time there is an outage its like reddit has have post for post what DPR says and whats going on...
EDIT: I try to type DPR and I type DRP instead jesus...
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Am I the only one still not able to access anything? Haven't had a successful page load in at least a day...
No sir. I must have clicked 5,000 times and I have not even seen the login screen. I tried the browser and my normal method. Nothing...frown face with clown hat on
quit clicking on it... ur adding to the DDoS by continuously trying to login... try every now and again if its not up then its not up
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Looking forward to this being over :(
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As much as it pains me not to have a magical web site that delivers us presents in the mail on demand, I will have to say that patience is a virtue. If we are not willing to wait for the 'road to come back then we hold little value to it. Patience, it's not easy.
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Thanks for the update DPR
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Thank you DPR, I just wanted to express how much I appreciated your efforts as well as your team along with the thousands of other peoples out there that support SR. You guys rock! Fucking bastards are always going to be up to something but the reality is, whomever is doing this, they probably have quite an arsenal of attacks so this could go on for a while unfortunately. Hang in there and eventually SR will prevail, it's just going to take a while this time it seems, but again! A big thank you for all that you guys are doing!
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W00h00 I actually got an SR themed error page. Could this mean progress? So shoot me, I'm an optimist. :-p
Thanks to DPR and the rest of the team. :)
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wow
For the first time in over 24 hours I got:
"Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (index)"
This is progress for me :D all previous attempts just timed out.
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W00h00 I actually got an SR themed error page. Could this mean progress? So shoot me, I'm an optimist. :-p
Thanks to DPR and the rest of the team. :)
I got the same thing and felt it might be a good sign.
I actually logged on last night made an order, I doubt it matters since so many cannot log on maybe including the guy I ordered from (Deezletime).
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don't give up DPR!!! We know you can do this.
Whomever is doing these attacks is an asshole.
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don't give up DPR!!! We know you can do this.
Whomever is doing these attacks is an asshole.
Hey now...I'm an asshole and I am not doing it! =p ;D
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I'm an idiot, but . .
I can't help but wonder why this whole ship is at dock? It can still sail around the harbour quite safely for the time being.
Multiple URLS and switch between them would certainly work its a reasonable idea.
Simple manual switching as a silly but functional idea:
It must be a bit of work to reprogram the botnet's target address each time it changes. At some point it will become tedious and they won't want to play anymore. Post the latest URL in the forum, or some clearnet forum that can't be DDOSed as easily. Users will keep up to the latest URL, don't worry they want their drugs. they'll figure it out. . It would only be temporary then switch back to normal when they stop. At least the site would be accessible to a few people in the know.. .the rest can learn to keep up or just wait until the war is over.
Either way, there is no reason the site can't continue to work on another unknown URL for the time being. .. until a solution can come.
Unless that is the tactic here. . to get SIlk Road to come out from the woodwork.?
Unpublished alternate address:
I'm sure they got it worked out, but a backup site wouldn't hurt for days like this. It can be a simple contact /order page /forwarder that works for any vendor. This way buyers can at least order and check up on orders. Vendors can use Access, or Excel or organize their offline orders.
Offline downloaded site:
An offline, downloadable version of the site can be done. Browse the products at top speed all you want off your hard drive. Orders can be sent to an intermediary at SR, who then forwards the order to the right vendor or something like that. Its just temporary and would keep business flowing for the meantime.
Vendors pitch in for a site receptionist for when the site goes down:
I think vendors would gladly pitch in to pay for a staff person to handle orders manually as a backup solution when the site is down. There are all sorts of options really. I'm sure there are brilliant people with even better ideas to share.
Its time to start exploring arrangements rather than the ' all or nothing' approach.
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A Maintenance page now shows up saying the following:
"Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (index)"
On a side note, does anyone have DubG's tormail address?
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I love you DPR you are the most badass computer nerd in existence
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All I get is switching between connection timeout and unable to connect. Nada, zip, zilch.
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Thank you again for your patience with all of this, and pray that we make it through stronger than we started.
I prayed once. It didn't work.
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I logged in just long enough to have possibly placed an order, but not long enough to see if my order was confirmed.
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All I get is switching between connection timeout and unable to connect. Nada, zip, zilch.
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Once again, thank you for the update DPR.
You're going to have to bank some sleep when these attacks are done. Good vibes and fingers crossed. I am (relatively) technologically impotent and that makes this site, your ethos and all the work you do even more inspiring.
Not arse licking. Don't care how much money you make out of this. Just enjoying the road very much.
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Thank you again for your patience with all of this, and pray that we make it through stronger than we started.
I prayed once. It didn't work.
That's odd, it works for winning the super bowl? :P
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Hang in there Captain and crew!
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If Silk Road falls Atlantis would never be able to replace it. If this is a rickety old pirate ship, then that is a polished yacht, it stinks of corruption and greed.
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still under maintenance:(
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Keep fighting the good fight, DPR. We're with you.
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ok I know you (and the team) aren't Santa Claus but to me you are just as great.
Hope you win and come back stronger, long life to Silk Road !
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There seems to be some stirring of life.. I just got this
"Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (index)"
So hopefully it won't be long now
Yup. same message. iiiii tried refreshing it thinking it would go through with no luck. prob pretty close to opening up though:)
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Long live the Silk Road!
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The quotes I use in my signature are more than just ripping some cool sounding shit off - I believe this is the way I, and many I know - personally IRL and anonymously thru SR - live their lives.
Is this the fight we've been anticipating? Is this hacktivism or State (and I mean US State) attempted intervention? How long can a cyber-fight last?
But we'll win - there's too many of us. DPR is DPR (for now) - but if you know you're Princess Bride, we're all DPR (or have the capacity to be; or Spartacus, same idea different era) - it'll transfer on and on and on and on...(end of V for Vendetta anyone?)
So tell us what we need to do DPR and SR admin - you have an army of cryptoanarchists (with varying levels of ability) - and a customer-base only too willing to learn how to raise the game. We are a decentralized community so we are perfectly capable of organising ourselves, but we need some guidance as to what the Community needs done. Could we be DDOSing an identified target to fuck it up in return? Can we create mirror or alternate tor addresses for situations like this, as a previous poster has suggested?
But basically - HOW CAN WE HELP? Or can't we?
We do this together our community gets stronger - we cannot turn away. We walk together - unido.
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Thank you, DPR. Break a leg. Their legs.
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The piece of shit behind these attacks is going to eventually see their day, what goes around comes around and these fucks should be vaporized. Thanks DPR and SR staff for all your hard work! You guys will get these assholes! You got the whole community behind you!
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+1 MacMan
+1 zapatista36
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Just when I actsually have money to put an order in for a big weekend coming up SR gets attacked.
Good luck admins you're all doing a great job. This whole 'Atlantis' thing sounds fishy to me. no one even has any good feedback.
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Just when I actsually have money to put an order in for a big weekend coming up SR gets attacked.
Good luck admins you're all doing a great job. This whole 'Atlantis' thing sounds fishy to me. no one even has any good feedback.
im with you on that one.
i hope DPR releases an update soon
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Are we at war with the US army?
I got the feeling they feel their borders are threatened by Silk Road exploiting its postal system.
If it was any foreign nation doing we what we do, it would be grounds for a declaration of war if you think about it.
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DPR
and all you admins, moderators, and cpu wizards..
thank you soooooo much for your tireless efforts!!
they're not unnoticed!!
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Once again, thank you for the update DPR.
You're going to have to bank some sleep when these attacks are done. Good vibes and fingers crossed. I am (relatively) technologically impotent and that makes this site, your ethos and all the work you do even more inspiring.
Not arse licking. Don't care how much money you make out of this. Just enjoying the road very much.
lol I doubt he's literally losing sleep over this. He's probably at work right now or screwing his wife. While everyone is sitting here, hitting f5 he's in his car going to get a burger from the drive thu
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Just when I actsually have money to put an order in for a big weekend coming up SR gets attacked.
Good luck admins you're all doing a great job. This whole 'Atlantis' thing sounds fishy to me. no one even has any good feedback.
im with you on that one.
i hope DPR releases an update soon
he hasn't released an update because he's probably out watching a movie.
give the guy a break you fucking leeches
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Just when I actsually have money to put an order in for a big weekend coming up SR gets attacked.
Good luck admins you're all doing a great job. This whole 'Atlantis' thing sounds fishy to me. no one even has any good feedback.
im with you on that one.
i hope DPR releases an update soon
he hasn't released an update because he's probably out watching a movie.
give the guy a break you fucking leeches
hahaha ouch. straight to the heart.
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One thing we can look at is the IPs of exit nodes.
We can probably guess that IF this is Government sponsored they are running their own high-speed exit nodes to help facilitate the attack.
As a brief experiment we could DDoS only those nodes that appear like they might be part of the attack.
Like These servers:
conformal00 to conformal21(most suspicious to me because there are so many high speed nodes in sequence in the US)
chaoscomputerclub (german exit nodes, also numbered in sequence and high speed)
You get the idea. Likely high-speed nodes in sequence, because they'd want to be able to identify and document their operation.
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thelorax had it right back on page #3 of this thread:
whats the deal? cant a man just pay his drug dealer over the the internet nowadays?
what the fuck is the world coming to?
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One thing we can look at is the IPs of exit nodes.
We can probably guess that IF this is Government sponsored they are running their own high-speed exit nodes to help facilitate the attack.
As a brief experiment we could DDoS only those nodes that appear like they might be part of the attack.
Like These servers:
conformal00 to conformal21(most suspicious to me because there are so many high speed nodes in sequence in the US)
chaoscomputerclub (german exit nodes, also numbered in sequence and high speed)
You get the idea. Likely high-speed nodes in sequence, because they'd want to be able to identify and document their operation.
yeah do that!
sounds like it should work:)
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Karma is a mega bitch and if these attacks are because of competitors, it will backfire.
Yes, you CAN bring down SR. Clever fuck. Now that you've done it, there's a bullseye on the back of your head.
I say we start a new category on SR. Lets call it 'REVENGE' and dedicate it to new and creative ways to bring this fuck to his knees.
DPR, God bless... When you're back up i'll donate a couple bitcoins to your cause.
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This not being able to help thing is so frustrating! I wish I could do more than sit here moving threads to their proper places!
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thank you DPR and the whole team for staying strong...I think it's clear this represents so much more than just a website...keep fighting for good and truth and know we all stand with you
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so this is it ? :(
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This not being able to help thing is so frustrating! I wish I could do more than sit here moving threads to their proper places!
i wish i knew what i could do to help!
DPR will prevail!
let me know if theres anything i can do to help
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Chin up Pfandleiher, it will return... heck, it's not even been a week yet!
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so this is it ? :(
welcome back? :/
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Chin up Pfandleiher, it will return... heck, it's not even been a week yet!
A week!?!?! it hasn't even been a day... just stay positive and itll be back up before we know it!
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Seems like everyone is getting the maintenance page now. 2-3 hours ago people couldn't even load the site. I'd say this is progress. Keep it up DPR & team!
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One thing we can look at is the IPs of exit nodes.
We can probably guess that IF this is Government sponsored they are running their own high-speed exit nodes to help facilitate the attack.
As a brief experiment we could DDoS only those nodes that appear like they might be part of the attack.
Like These servers:
conformal00 to conformal21(most suspicious to me because there are so many high speed nodes in sequence in the US)
chaoscomputerclub (german exit nodes, also numbered in sequence and high speed)
You get the idea. Likely high-speed nodes in sequence, because they'd want to be able to identify and document their operation.
I can only speak about the server from CCC (ChaosComputerClub):
CCC is one of the biggest german hacker clubs which is comparable with ANONYMOUS.
Those exit nodes are used for high speeding the TORnet and not used against anyone!
Just because there are fast exit nodes you should not burn them as from government initiated ;)
What I still find missing is an actualized STATUS of SR!
This status could be like a traffic light build into a grafic within the forum so that everyone can see on one look if there are any problems with the website.
Unfortunately actual it should be RED :(
greets JD
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Seems like everyone is getting the maintenance page now. 2-3 hours ago people couldn't even load the site. I'd say this is progress. Keep it up DPR & team!
I have finally got to the maintenance page. I have tried here and there since....well, a long time. Lol. Was never worried. I just wish the people would do this toward something more worthy, Perhaps a facebook or a yahell.
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Seems like everyone is getting the maintenance page now. 2-3 hours ago people couldn't even load the site. I'd say this is progress. Keep it up DPR & team!
I have finally got to the maintenance page. I have tried here and there since....well, a long time. Lol. Was never worried. I just wish the people would do this toward something more worthy, Perhaps a facebook or a yahell.
right there with ya man.
A lil off topic. whats yahell?
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Seems like everyone is getting the maintenance page now. 2-3 hours ago people couldn't even load the site. I'd say this is progress. Keep it up DPR & team!
I have finally got to the maintenance page. I have tried here and there since....well, a long time. Lol. Was never worried. I just wish the people would do this toward something more worthy, Perhaps a facebook or a yahell.
right there with ya man.
A lil off topic. whats yahell?
Yahoo. Basically any mass media site.
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Seems like everyone is getting the maintenance page now. 2-3 hours ago people couldn't even load the site. I'd say this is progress. Keep it up DPR & team!
I have finally got to the maintenance page. I have tried here and there since....well, a long time. Lol. Was never worried. I just wish the people would do this toward something more worthy, Perhaps a facebook or a yahell.
right there with ya man.
A lil off topic. whats yahell?
Yahoo. Basically any mass media site.
totally i feel ya. yeah im going to jump off here for a few hours to give the maintenance some time. maybe ill jump back on running windows+tor and see if that helps.
off to smoke some earl:)
Much love _ mcrad!
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can someone please tell me everythings gonna be alright 1 more time?
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A girl apparently OD in Texas recently from drugs bought online. Anyone think Anonymous is justice seeking like they did to others out there ? At any rate this attack is costing someone their bandwidth . They will stop as soon as they need the Internet for something useful like porn.
Stay strong. The revolution is just beginning..'
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can someone please tell me everythings gonna be alright 1 more time?
Don't worry dude, everything is going to be alright :)
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One thing we can look at is the IPs of exit nodes.
We can probably guess that IF this is Government sponsored they are running their own high-speed exit nodes to help facilitate the attack.
As a brief experiment we could DDoS only those nodes that appear like they might be part of the attack.
Like These servers:
conformal00 to conformal21(most suspicious to me because there are so many high speed nodes in sequence in the US)
chaoscomputerclub (german exit nodes, also numbered in sequence and high speed)
You get the idea. Likely high-speed nodes in sequence, because they'd want to be able to identify and document their operation.
Don't do that, it won't solve anything.
Chaos computer club is a well-know hackers club in Germany, you should watch "23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint", it's a movie about a true story of German hacker who belonged to the CCC, hacked several USA nuclear plants and sold it to the soviets, if I recall the story correctly.
It's an ooold club with tradition and enough power to have high capacity lines, they're probably not doing anything in behalf of any government.
Mind that: Clients who connect to the Silkroad are as untraceable as the Silkroad server is. The most probable thing is that nobody here will ever find out who is attacking the Silkroad so leave it be, forget about revenge, it brings nothing good to our image and will do more harm than good and will serve as an excuse for future attacks, which will take the site down for even more time.
We should focus on defense rather than an unfruitful knee-jerk reaction. I don't really know how DPR set up his servers but if I were to DoS/DDoS attack the Silkroad, I'd focus on successive HTTP GET/POST requests to the Silkroad server.
Contrary to what many people stated, servers behind tor are susceptible to these attacks and it's something very easy to perform. For example, if you download the same file over and over from Silkroad, you will hog the server's bandwidth the same way you could do it any other site on the internet.
And there's another problem for Silkroad being behind Tor: It cannot ban the flooders by IP address, since there are no IP address identifying anyone here; so Silkroad servers sits there helplessly waiting for the flood to stop.
A DDoS can not only work by hogging the server's bandwidth but it can also hog the Servers' RAM or CPU by forcing it to perform heavy operations. It could be by calling some PHP script on the road that perform some long operation on the database; while a normal user wouldn't be able to notice which operations take more or less time, a determined attacker could guess by statistical analysis how many time does it take to execute each operation and exploit it in order to put the CPUs or RAM under heavy load. If successful, the attacker
Of course most of these intensive scripts can only be ran after logging in, and you need to solve a captcha to login in but I can assure you that I would be able to make a program that breaks it very easily and I ain't no expert in solving captchas or anything like that. I'd advise you to change it as soon as you can.
This doesn't mean that the Silkroad was broken, at all. I'd be pretty confident that DPR did a good job regarding the users confidentiality. Don't worry because DDoS are the lowest of the lowest kind of "hacker" attacks. It's the desperate cry of someone who could do nothing better to break a system, like the cry of a baby who was denied some candy. Every system is susceptible to DDoS attacks!
Another idea that I'd like to leave, and that I'm assuming you have physical access to the SR servers, is that if you don't have logs of your system, you could build a one-way ethernet cable from the SR server to a Log server that would only allow you to write to the Log server, and never read. That would make impossible even for the leetest hacker in the world to read the logs from a remote source.
This way you would be able to inspect the nature of future attacks and don't open any hole in your system.
You could add an extra layer of security by encrypting the logs in the Log server.
Have fun!
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Is anyone still getting in at least sometimes?? Its been about 30 some odd hours since I've seen the login screen, and this afternoon was the first time I have seen the maintenance screen. On the upside the forum seems to be working quite well for me now.
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Is anyone still getting in at least sometimes?? Its been about 30 some odd hours since I've seen the login screen, and this afternoon was the first time I have seen the maintenance screen. On the upside the forum seems to be working quite well for me now.
lastnight i was able to get in perfectly. today when i woke up it was back to this maintenance. but yes. the forum is running as a well oiled machine:)
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Man, this sucks!!! I hope that DPR and crew are at least making progress. I have much faith in them, if they have come through successful on the previous attacks, they will prevail again!!
Gettem DPR!!!
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can someone please tell me everythings gonna be alright 1 more time?
Don't worry dude, everything is going to be alright :)
phew, thanks
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Nothing worthy ever came without a struggle. I know we all know this. Have faith in the folks who had the vision and motivation to create this community. All will be right on the road!
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Man, this sucks!!! I hope that DPR and crew are at least making progress. I have much faith in them, if they have come through successful on the previous attacks, they will prevail again!!
Gettem DPR!!!
+1 on that note:)
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finally a familiar page! :).. says maintenance "Sorry, an error was encountered. We could not process your request. (index)" but at least its loading something.. ;D
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I just want to know if my orders are shipped, ordering a few thousand and site goes maintenance :(.
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finally a familiar page! :) .. says maintenance "Sorry, an error was encountered. We could not process your request. (index)" but at least its loading something.. ;D
yeah i get the feeling DPR is making progress and we'll be moving in no time:)
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I just want to know if my orders are shipped, ordering a few thousand and site goes maintenance :(.
It's not as if they are doing it on purpose. They're trying diligently too get things back to the "norm". Have patience young Jedi. :)
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Best Wishes, DPR and the entire staff....Thank you for all your efforts!
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I went into stealth mode just before this most recent attack.
Please - all my customers please note - I am still around. Very much so. I KNOW there are pending orders, probably past the due date to be attended to. I have not been able to log on since Friday (I think)
Please just bear with us - I say us, because we (you, me, the other vendors and DPR) are all in this together. We WILL prevail..!
I'm sitting on a huge stash of some of the best weed I've seen in a long time.
As soon as we are up and running - be sure, I will be at your service.
And to DPR - Thank you for your efforts. Thank you for SR.
I wish we could find this dumb fuck hacker and collectively kick his ass..!
Revenant Child.
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I just want to know if my orders are shipped, ordering a few thousand and site goes maintenance :(.
It's not as if they are doing it on purpose. They're trying diligently too get things back to the "norm". Have patience young Jedi. :)
Oh, it's not that I don't have faith. I just am hoping that the vendors are able to access my orders and process them in a timely manner. Especially considering I'm trying to get it before this Thursday. But then again, that is why I went for Express shipping on my must have order.
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I went into stealth mode just before this most recent attack.
Please - all my customers please note - I am still around. Very much so. I KNOW there are pending orders, probably past the due date to be attended to. I have not been able to log on since Friday (I think)
Please just bear with us - I say us, because we (you, me, the other vendors and DPR) are all in this together. We WILL prevail..!
I'm sitting on a huge stash of some of the best weed I've seen in a long time.
As soon as we are up and running - be sure, I will be at your service.
And to DPR - Thank you for your efforts. Thank you for SR.
I wish we could find this dumb fuck hacker and collectively kick his ass..!
Revenant Child.
+1 for wanting to beat the attackers ass too!
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Do us all a favor and go elsewhere then. We don't need a negative person like you here anyway. You don't even understand what is going on here.
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One is thankful for the zeal and the excellence that is so abundant throughout this community. Go, go, DPR ranger!
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Every week? you've been here what 2 weeks? go the fuck on to atlantis or BMR we dont want your kind here you nagger. DPR and the community alike are doing you a favor, so fuck off with your bitchin.
-1 to you dickhead
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^^Agreed, we need to ban ungrateful little faggots like this guy. Do you even realize how amazing it is that SR even exists? 10 years ago this would be unthinkable, you need to take the good with the bad and look at the big picture
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I have been around alot longer than 2 weeks haha so your telling me this site is not down at least once a week? if you say no your full of shit mate and if you see how well BMR is running no hassle atal and i bet its making a fucking killing since this is down
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I also have a few orders that i just placed last night i got on long enough to see they were processing. I'm not so worried about the orders as i am about losing my new found friend SR. This is like a dream come true and I have faith all will come back.
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Do us all a favor and go elsewhere then. We don't need a negative person like you here anyway. You don't even understand what is going on here.
Agreed.
danb15, please leave. The grownups are talking
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lets hope we all get our drugs for this weekend...
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Please be polite, especially with DPR who are working hard for the whole community, otherwise there are other sites where you can buy do not need to come here to complain with the your bullshit!
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Every week? you've been here what 2 weeks? go the fuck on to atlantis or BMR we dont want your kind here you nagger. DPR and the community alike are doing you a favor, so fuck off with your bitchin.
-1 to you dickhead
Yeah. Fuck off..!
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I have been around alot longer than 2 weeks haha so your telling me this site is not down at least once a week? if you say no your full of shit mate and if you see how well BMR is running no hassle atal and i bet its making a fucking killing since this is down
Look at all that negative karma you picked up ha. and no, i dont notice SR being down at least once a week. i still get what i need to done. if you dont your doing it wrong. and SR is being attacked because we are the top dog. jealousy is a bitch. you go ahead to BMR we wont miss you
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BMR is a bunch a scammers few legit seller but too much crap to sift through and most important i don't feel the vibes like i do on SR. I'm patient. Jus wish i could help in some way tell me who to hit with a dos attack.
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Every week? you've been here what 2 weeks? go the fuck on to atlantis or BMR we dont want your kind here you nagger. DPR and the community alike are doing you a favor, so fuck off with your bitchin.
-1 to you dickhead
Not sure if nagger was a SP reference as I think, but well put either way. I would +1 if I was able.
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BMR is a bunch a scammers few legit seller but too much crap to sift through and most important i don't feel the vibes like i do on SR. I'm patient. Jus wish i could help in some way tell me who to hit with a dos attack.
exactly:)
+1 for what i think to be the truth!
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I have been around alot longer than 2 weeks haha so your telling me this site is not down at least once a week? if you say no your full of shit mate and if you see how well BMR is running no hassle atal and i bet its making a fucking killing since this is down
Look at all that negative karma you picked up ha. and no, i dont notice SR being down at least once a week. i still get what i need to done. if you dont your doing it wrong. and SR is being attacked because we are the top dog. jealousy is a bitch. you go ahead to BMR we wont miss you
What you said...that fricking guy has some big clown shoes don't he? Or am I siding with you because you Love LTC too?
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Fuck.
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Fuck.
Fuckity fuck fuck
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Every week? you've been here what 2 weeks? go the fuck on to atlantis or BMR we dont want your kind here you nagger. DPR and the community alike are doing you a favor, so fuck off with your bitchin.
-1 to you dickhead
Yeah, you certainly told him good!
This community needs more dickriding faggots like stonedstupor
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Fuck.
Fuckity fuck fuck
SON OF FUCK!
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Every week? you've been here what 2 weeks? go the fuck on to atlantis or BMR we dont want your kind here you nagger. DPR and the community alike are doing you a favor, so fuck off with your bitchin.
-1 to you dickhead
Yeah, you certainly told him good!
This community needs more dickriding faggots like stonedstupor
Elohel...check this troll out, the person has 374 posts with -174 karma. Ya, you should have just not said anything.
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hanging in there
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fuck trolls. unless your trolling a troll 8)
...that Scot gave us a -karma. That tickles me. ;D
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Every week? you've been here what 2 weeks? go the fuck on to atlantis or BMR we dont want your kind here you nagger. DPR and the community alike are doing you a favor, so fuck off with your bitchin.
-1 to you dickhead
Yeah, you certainly told him good!
This community needs more dickriding faggots like stonedstupor
Elohel...check this troll out, the person has 374 posts with -174 karma. Ya, you should have just not said anything.
How old are you? 10 years old?
Enjoy playing your little karma points game
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Where are Crash Override and Acid Burn and their posse when you need 'em! :)
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got on long enough today to send some coin to my account. haahaha
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Every week? you've been here what 2 weeks? go the fuck on to atlantis or BMR we dont want your kind here you nagger. DPR and the community alike are doing you a favor, so fuck off with your bitchin.
-1 to you dickhead
Yeah, you certainly told him good!
This community needs more dickriding faggots like stonedstupor
Elohel...check this troll out, the person has 374 posts with -174 karma. Ya, you should have just not said anything.
How old are you? 10 years old?
Enjoy playing your little karma points game
Rabble rabble rabble
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Every week? you've been here what 2 weeks? go the fuck on to atlantis or BMR we dont want your kind here you nagger. DPR and the community alike are doing you a favor, so fuck off with your bitchin.
-1 to you dickhead
Yeah, you certainly told him good!
This community needs more dickriding faggots like stonedstupor
Elohel...check this troll out, the person has 374 posts with -174 karma. Ya, you should have just not said anything.
How old are you? 10 years old?
Enjoy playing your little karma points game
Rabble rabble rabble
point proven
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Where are Crash Override and Acid Burn and their posse when you need 'em! :)
Bahahaha!!
right on!!
::)
:P
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Fuck.
Fuckity fuck fuck
Mother Mother Fuck Fuck,
Mother mother fuck fuck
noise noise nose
1,2, 1, 2, 3, 4
noise noise noise
Smoking Weed Smokin weed
doin coke drinkin beers
drinkn beers beers beers
rollin fattys smokin blunts
who smokes the blunts?
we smoke the blunts
rollin blunts and smokin blunts..
.... OWEE OWEE OH!!
8) ;D :D
LONG LIVE SR!!!
Don't worry y'all...This is only temporary, SR will be back up in runnin!
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What I hate most here is that there's no people with IT knowledge to explain other people about DDoS attack and make them calm and waiting. I see here only people who love or hate what staff is doing. I read only 2 posts which told me something more about what's going on and that we really can't protect from attack but I'd like to hear some ideas about security levels to make myself confident that we are safe and unable to catch because despite of I know that it's only DDoS I don't feel 100% sure that I'm safe.
I feel 95% safe due to I see that service like this has never been intercepted by Law Enforcement in hacking way. Farmers Market has been shut down because guys offered too many ways of payment like Western Union, Paypal etc. + communication has been supported by Hushmail which is not totally anonymous so they caught them in classic methods of interception like tracing payments or reading their letters.
I hope that everything will be fixed soon and few words to people are talking about proxy websites like onion.to and they say it's risky. It's risky only from this side that your ISP will see what adress you enter but all communication from entrance node through relay nodes to exit nodes and then to server is encrypted so it's 100% safe. You don't have to even worry if LE close website due to they will only receive encrypted packages of data which has to be cracked to see what does it contain and TOR nodes don't remember what they received and what they sent so it's really safe system. Weakness part of TOR is logg in to clearnet websites because exit node can be listened and they can intercept packages from exit nodes and decrypt it but only if connection is not encrypted.
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Fuck.
Fuckity fuck fuck
Mother Mother Fuck Fuck,
Mother mother fuck fuck
noise noise nose
1,2, 1, 2, 3, 4
noise noise noise
Smoking Weed Smokin weed
doin coke drinkin beers
drinkn beers beers beers
rollin fattys smokin blunts
who smokes the blunts?
we smoke the blunts
rollin blunts and smokin blunts..
.... OWEE OWEE OH!!
8) ;D :D
LONG LIVE SR!!!
Don't worry y'all...This is only temporary, SR will be back up in runnin!
this cheered me up!
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No news all day :-\
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No news all day :-\
just try and get away from the computer for a few hours... thats what im doing as of
NOW!
much love everyone and long live the road!
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Sending love and support.
Hope DPR and SR staff get to put this behind them soon.
This too shall pass...
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If it's not back up by the time I finish this blunt...
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I wait. With patience.
8)
-onion-
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Fuck.
Fuckity fuck fuck
Mother Mother Fuck Fuck,
Mother mother fuck fuck
noise noise nose
1,2, 1, 2, 3, 4
noise noise noise
Smoking Weed Smokin weed
doin coke drinkin beers
drinkn beers beers beers
rollin fattys smokin blunts
who smokes the blunts?
we smoke the blunts
rollin blunts and smokin blunts..
.... OWEE OWEE OH!!
8) ;D :D
LONG LIVE SR!!!
Don't worry y'all...This is only temporary, SR will be back up in runnin!
this cheered me up!
Thanky ;)
I hope it cheers everyone up!
And like you said, just get away from the cpu for a few hours.
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Hey everyone. Jump on chat and pass time with us!
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OP updated...
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DPR and crew- thank you for everything you and your team have done to make this site what it is, and everything you are doing to keep it alive. I read your manifesto recently and thought it was excellent. It captures my own feelings about SR and nails it on the dot for how we should all behave. I hope you are able to find a solution to this issue because this site is truly a piece of history.
Best,
CMOT
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If it's actually just the one guy he must be pretty good.
Best of luck.
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I am very sad to see they have the upper hand. I believe in you DPR and I know one way or another you will make this dream of ours possible as you already have again and again.
Chaos
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OP updated...
I won't get a response but, how will the people be given private links? I just made my first 3 orders totaling quite a bit of money, for myself at least, and I'd like to hopefully get my orders processed or atleast in-transit soon considering I've told all my customers that the product would be here by the weekend.
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Reading the OP update - holy shit!
I'd be curious to know if this strikes you as something governmental in scale. This attack certainly seems unprecedented in scale and sophistication.
I'd also be curious as to whether there are any special plans for escrow funds in the event that access is down for a long time...
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i hope it comes back tonite. fuck this dos bullshit. the tor network should develop something to make it impossible.
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It would be nice if you could allow a way to withdraw my btc since it's of no use on my SR account.
Also, Coachella420 claims he is doing the DDOS. Why not ban him from forums?
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damn between this news and Mt Gox about to trade litecoins they are gonna go up in value I'd say.
hope everything works out as smooth as possible though
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"I haven't given up hope for a faster solution, but if one can not be found, then we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs. I'll keep everyone updated on how we will move forward, but please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access."
I'm glad I got my orders placed during the little bit of up-time.
I just hope that the vendors actually mailed out my orders instead of just marking them "in transit"
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"I haven't given up hope for a faster solution, but if one can not be found, then we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs. I'll keep everyone updated on how we will move forward, but please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access."
I'm glad I got my orders placed during the little bit of up-time.
I just hope that the vendors actually mailed out my orders instead of just marking them "in transit"
I can't speak for other vendors but I won't be mailing out orders again until the site goes live once more - if SR stays down for a long time or (god forbid) doesn't come back I don't want to be even more financially shafted than I already would be.
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Damn, the latest update is seriously bad news but I much appreciate the honesty from DPR, definitely time to go make some street buys for this weekend. I just hope I don't end up permanently losing the money I have tied up on SR atm, I have 3 orders I made over the weekend in limbo. I wish I could access the site just to cancel the orders and withdraw my money for the time being.
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subbed
-fucking hell :(
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"please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access."
:o
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subbed
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Set up the backup withdraw address?
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+1......I agree.......I have quite a few ready to go out....and i am holding to them till SR is back up.
"I haven't given up hope for a faster solution, but if one can not be found, then we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs. I'll keep everyone updated on how we will move forward, but please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access."
I'm glad I got my orders placed during the little bit of up-time.
I just hope that the vendors actually mailed out my orders instead of just marking them "in transit"
I can't speak for other vendors but I won't be mailing out orders again until the site goes live once more - if SR stays down for a long time or (god forbid) doesn't come back I don't want to be even more financially shafted than I already would be.
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sub
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At least DPR is considering the best alternative for all of us. Stay positive
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Who benefits from these attacks on SR? If any at all...
I can't help but notice, that every time SK is attacked the price on BC goes up. Coincidence?
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Thanks for the info, but I just read a post from you that you previously said Silkroad was stronger then ever because of the original attack and because of those changes and work you have done it would be very difficult to take Silkroad down again. I'm confused? Maybe you guys need to hire a professional who can deal with security breaches and things like this. Taking help from the "community" isn't going to cut it anymore.
I'm also keen to believe that some kind of law enforcement is behind this, trying to extract as much information as possible. The best way to accumulate information is when there is chaos and issues, because someone can slip in and out easily without being noticed. I suggest to completely shut down until a more secure site can be built. Do I want that to happen right now? Hell no. I have a ton of money in my account that I can't get to and may not be able to access it for a long time if ever. Nothing we can do besides hope you make the best decision(s) for everyone and hopefully get the site back up and running.
Use some of those thousands and thousands of dollars you guys made on commissions and get some real security protection for us all. :)
Good luck.
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"I haven't given up hope for a faster solution, but if one can not be found, then we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs. I'll keep everyone updated on how we will move forward, but please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access."
I'm glad I got my orders placed during the little bit of up-time.
I just hope that the vendors actually mailed out my orders instead of just marking them "in transit"
I can't speak for other vendors but I won't be mailing out orders again until the site goes live once more - if SR stays down for a long time or (god forbid) doesn't come back I don't want to be even more financially shafted than I already would be.
I feel for you MDUK, one of the nicest vendors on the road..cant imagine how much coin you would have lost in the past 6 weeks.
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hoping site be back up soon.
some time ago when SR was down for a few days like this a lot of vendor sold stuff over the forums. so i take orders over forum message right now will stop soon as site come back up. if anyone want to order message me on forum.
also if selling over the forum is not ok right now with the site being down i stop if mod/admin says so.
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This is great news. It will be so much faster semi private.
It's fast to do. a few days maybe.
The worst part is that newbies can't find the site. But everyone else with an account already will be able to get in.
Links can be updated to the site. No biggie. Now the target will move to someone else's back.
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Keeping an eye on this. What a sad day. I wish whoever was behind it would say what their game was at least. I feel like only LE would make this kind of attack and not announce it(eventually that is)--time will tell.
Cheers all, looks like we got a bump ride ahead
Snoopish
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Latest update looks grim, but have faith that DPR and his crew will overcome whatever enemy this is.
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Tor is fucked. This exploit must have been there all along to be able to stop rouge sites. Bastards finally pushed the button and used it. I'm guessing pressure from the government. Would a rollback to a previous TOR version be any use? Maybe this exploit is only found in a recent TOR update and not previous versions. It's worth a peek
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Every week? you've been here what 2 weeks? go the fuck on to atlantis or BMR we dont want your kind here you nagger. DPR and the community alike are doing you a favor, so fuck off with your bitchin.
-1 to you dickhead
Yeah, you certainly told him good!
This community needs more dickriding faggots like stonedstupor
Elohel...check this troll out, the person has 374 posts with -174 karma. Ya, you should have just not said anything.
How do you give +/- karma anyways? ( and receive it ? ) I never learned haha.
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I've thought ahead for times like this, although I did not think ahead today when moving coin into my SR wallet. So there's a fair amount in lala land right now...or whenever the fog processes it.
Sucks man. As for other things. I have all kinds of stockpiles just awaiting consumption, but I needed coke to finish my collection! Damn!!
I think we all need to stay positive! Regardless of this bad time-
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Thanks for the update DPR.
We are with you!
Thanks for the info, but I just read a post from you that you previously said Silkroad was stronger then ever because of the original attack and because of those changes and work you have done it would be very difficult to take Silkroad down again. I'm confused? Maybe you guys need to hire a professional who can deal with security breaches and things like this. Taking help from the "community" isn't going to cut it anymore.
I'm also keen to believe that some kind of law enforcement is behind this, trying to extract as much information as possible. The best way to accumulate information is when there is chaos and issues, because someone can slip in and out easily without being noticed. I suggest to completely shut down until a more secure site can be built. Do I want that to happen right now? Hell no. I have a ton of money in my account that I can't get to and may not be able to access it for a long time if ever. Nothing we can do besides hope you make the best decision(s) for everyone and hopefully get the site back up and running.
Use some of those thousands and thousands of dollars you guys made on commissions and get some real security protection for us all. :)
Good luck.
It's not insecurity that's bringing the site down. In the real world a website would be able to have LE assist in tracking down attackers like this. Black markets don't have that resource, nor can you do that through TOR, so all we can do is grin and bear it until DPR or TOR devs try the fixes he just outlined in his update...
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even if LE manages to shut down SR, vendors would simply move to another site. The government may win this battle, but they will still lose the war. On another note, what does it mean when the site is "semi-private?" does that mean that the URL will change, or that only people who are currently members will be able to use the site? I've been here for almost 8 months so i feel that hopefully i'll be invited to join the new SR if it comes down to that
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Every week this site is fucking down and you say your are making it better? if that is the case why the fuck are you down again? and if its 100% anonymous how the fuck are you being attacked? soon people are going to get fed up of all your shit and shop elsewhere
Every week? you've been here what 2 weeks? go the fuck on to atlantis or BMR we dont want your kind here you nagger. DPR and the community alike are doing you a favor, so fuck off with your bitchin.
-1 to you dickhead
Yeah, you certainly told him good!
This community needs more dickriding faggots like stonedstupor
Elohel...check this troll out, the person has 374 posts with -174 karma. Ya, you should have just not said anything.
How do you give +/- karma anyways? ( and receive it ? ) I never learned haha.
It's the [Thank] [Discourage]. thank gives a +1 and well...you get the idea. =)
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Damn...... I've been trying to tell myself this will all blow over. That latest update made me cringe.....
I'm really trying to keep a positive outlook on this, but something just doesn't seem right. I don't understand how this would benefit your regular everyday "hacker".
This Is how some people are supporting there fuckin families, Silk Road has drastically changed 1000's of lives Including mine FOR THE BETTER!
Karma's a bitch and nobody Is prepared to deal with the life long karma of taking food out of 1000's of peoples mouths.
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SR isn't even responsible for a fraction of BTC market activity today, so I'd say 2 and 3 are out of the question.
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Ya not at all weird there is new markets gaining more attention here in the forums, I am sure people are FLOCKING over to those other markets right now. I say let em...
Those of us know the road, (not that I am some master of the road, nor have I been here forever) know this is the place to be-
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We shall prevail
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i wonder if funds will be released to emergency bitcoin addresses, or what will happen with finalization. ill probably receive a shipment tomorrow.
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i wonder if funds will be released to emergency bitcoin addresses, or what will happen with finalization. ill probably receive a shipment tomorrow.
Autofinalize has been disabled, and finalization in general as well since no one can access the site.
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UPDATE (04/30/2013 0035 UTC): We have come a long way in the battle, but still do not have the upper hand. It's looking more and more like a restructuring of the tor software or even the tor network will be required to mitigate the kind of attack we are under. If this can be solved by modifying the tor client software running the silk road .onion, then it will be a matter of patching and redeploying the hidden service. If it is a network issue, it will require the cooperation of the Tor developers, or running a new network of nodes. I haven't given up hope for a faster solution, but if one can not be found, then we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs. I'll keep everyone updated on how we will move forward, but please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access.
UPDATE (04/29/2013 0715 UTC): Just want to let you all know I'm still here and we're still doing battle behind the scenes to get the forums and main site running again. It is incredibly discouraging to have everything we've worked so hard for taken down by some anonymous and malevolent person, but your kind words of encouragement do wonders for our moral. We are on the cutting edge of anonymity technology here. The attacks being used against us MUST be overcome if Silk Road and any anonymous public sites are to have a future. Thank you again for your patience with all of this, and pray that we make it through stronger than we started.
We are being attacked once more. This time the forums are under attack as well. Access is intermittent, so hopefully some of you can read this. We are doing everything possible to overcome this latest attack. Please be patient while we find a solution.
hello everyone, first I'd like to say, please keep up the great work noble sirs(sysadmins of SR), an second thank everyone of those faceless hero'(s) for your restless efforts of keeping this site up an running, while continuing to combat these attacks. I tip my hat off to (all of) you. :)
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This tread is for all my clients who have pending orders, and that they are waiting for their tracking number, I point out that all orders have been shipped, Silk Roar per 20/30 minutes he was able to work, as you can see not slept or to keep my word of honor for my clients, for more information feel free to chat with me in this tread!
best regards customers.
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=153300.0
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=153299.0
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i wonder if funds will be released to emergency bitcoin addresses, or what will happen with finalization. ill probably receive a shipment tomorrow.
Autofinalize has been disabled, and finalization in general as well since no one can access the site.
thanks alot for the updates scout!
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I'm a vendor here and have not been able to log into Silkroad for about a day now. I just really hope my customer's are aware of this and realize I'm unable to process anything or help them in anyway. DPR said the site would be more resilient from the work they did because of the attack a few days ago. What happened with that?
To all the customer's out there, please give your vendors a break here. We are unable to do anything or help you anyway. And once Silkroad does come back up, please give us a little time to catch up and get things rolling again. We are all praying things work out in the end here.
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UPDATE (04/30/2013 0035 UTC):...If it is a network issue, it will require the cooperation of the Tor developers, or running a new network of nodes.
Yeah, good luck with that. Tor developers wouldn't be caught dead helping out a drug-vending site, r u kiddin' me?
I haven't given up hope for a faster solution, but if one can not be found, then we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs. I'll keep everyone updated on how we will move forward, but please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access.
Looks like DPR may have read my PM to him, as this is what I suggested.
goblin
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Who benefits from these attacks on SR? If any at all...
I can't help but notice, that every time SK is attacked the price on BC goes up. Coincidence?
The "who benefits from these attacks" in this case is like your typical "follow the money". There's only 3 potential beneficial situations and beneficiaries.
1) If it's a competing market, the motive is to gain new users defunct from SR, particularly vendors.
2) If it's people who hold a large sum of bitcoin, the motive is to drive the price up and sell.
3) If it's people who want to buy a large sum of bitcoin, the motive is to drive the price down and buy.
My money, so to speak. Is on no.2: Someone with a vast quantity of BC' s that they are trying to sell at the highest rate possible. Maybe it is Max Keiser ;D
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It doesn't make any sense for anyone to be attacking SR other than LE.
As the use and value of BTC increases, those with the most capabilities to earn BTC in a highly demanded market will emerge as the new power players of this rapidly evolving world. It may be because of this that LE is deciding to remove the pawns from the chessboard before they promote themselves into queens.
I trust DPR in choosing the best course of action concerning the future of SR. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and Silk Road will never die!
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I doubt that in days there will be patches available for the tor network. Afaik these kind of attacks dont exist since some weeks, they have allready been discussed in 2008.
For the other techies in here that want to learn more about possible attacks on the tor network, scroll to chapter 7:
Warning Clearnet Link!: https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/design-paper/tor-design.html
Thinking about clearnet links, i hope you have a very very secure hoster that protects your personal information. Something like cyberbunker.
Its difficult tough to give advice as DPR doesnt really sayed much about the actual type of attack, but i would guess they are attackin rendezvous/introduction points.
Best Regards
too sober gerstoner
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Hi, has the site been completely disabled? I would like to try and sneak in for a second and move some coin out. I managed to get in a couple of times yesterday. Is it likely that I may be able to?
Thanks
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i wonder if funds will be released to emergency bitcoin addresses, or what will happen with finalization. ill probably receive a shipment tomorrow.
Autofinalize has been disabled, and finalization in general as well since no one can access the site.
Are you sure? Last time SR was down a few days I had an order auto-finazlize. I am worried my buyer stats will be fucked up by this crash. I really do pay when I can get to the site.
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all other market sites are humming along quite fast. They sell guns there and stolen credit cards. Much worse than here. So if its LE, why not the others?
Because there is nobody there and the few who are there, are just scammers hahaha
I'll wait it out here thanks.
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I'm not one to point fingers, but the most logical reason for this attack is that it's being funded by Atlantis. What better way to get people to transfer markets then not even being able to use your current market. In fact, if the source was a bet at a casino, I'd empty my bank account and re mortgage my house on them being responsible for it, most likely by paying multiple people to lay it on SR with everything they got.
In a sense it's smart business investment on their part, that could very well work. The unfortunate part about it is that their really isn't anything you can do about it but fight it out until someone gives up.
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I'd like to know what happens to us that have money in escrow. I have $12,000 in escrow for orders I placed and the vendors never shipped them. Am I out $12,000 or what? This is information that would put our minds at ease.
vendors will ship their products when they are able to access SR, for the moment auto-finalizing is disabled as scout said. I'd say it would be best just to relax as much as possible an hope for the best, cheers.
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Hi, has the site been completely disabled? I would like to try and sneak in for a second and move some coin out. I managed to get in a couple of times yesterday. Is it likely that I may be able to?
Thanks
no, :( main site is completely inaccessible, for the time being.
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i wonder if funds will be released to emergency bitcoin addresses, or what will happen with finalization. ill probably receive a shipment tomorrow.
Autofinalize has been disabled, and finalization in general as well since no one can access the site.
Was it a mistake to send shipments out today? I didn't want to cheat out the ones that I marked in transit before the site went down, so I sent them as usual thinking the site would be up soon. Also if I were to have packages that are about to auto finalize will the BTC's be sent to our auto withdrawal in the case that this happens?
Thanks,
Rick
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Much love for all the work guys. I'm getting sober over here, so I hope you guys can find a solution soon, but I'm patiently waiting.
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Was it a mistake to send shipments out today? I didn't want to cheat out the ones that I marked in transit before the site went down, so I sent them as usual thinking the site would be up soon. Also if I were to have packages that are about to auto finalize will the BTC's be sent to our auto withdrawal in the case that this happens?
Thanks,
Rick
your orders wont finalize until the site is backup so your btc will auto withdrawl when the site comes back and the websites' auto finalizes are re-enabled.
and i am sure its not a bad thing you sent your orders.. ur customers will be happy.. but if the site never comes back due to it being ddos'ed for months and years you wont see any coins or feedback for any orders. however, because dpr would most likely redeploy to a new url you will get your coins
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i wonder if funds will be released to emergency bitcoin addresses, or what will happen with finalization. ill probably receive a shipment tomorrow.
Autofinalize has been disabled, and finalization in general as well since no one can access the site.
Are you sure? Last time SR was down a few days I had an order auto-finazlize. I am worried my buyer stats will be fucked up by this crash. I really do pay when I can get to the site.
Yes, I'm sure because DPR posted that in one of his updates.
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wonder if there is a way we can help provide network relying directly to SR without compromising security.. ::)
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dont jump ship cap'n remember! a captain ALWAYS goes down with his ship, ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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dont jump ship cap'n remember! a captain ALWAYS goes down with his ship, ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's no need to worry about that - I don't think SR is a ship that DPR would ever EVER abandon.
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It's probably the Mongowians.
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I'm not one to point fingers, but the most logical reason for this attack is that it's being funded by Atlantis. What better way to get people to transfer markets then not even being able to use your current market..
Doubtful. BMR has a longer history and is more well established than Altantis. Out of the several black market sites, how can Atlantis guarantee that vendors will go to Atlantis and not a market that has been around longer? They can't.
The fact is we don't know what is happening. I would be interested to know if any demands have been made to DPR by the attacker. Usually attacks of this length are along the lines of "give us $100 000 or we will destroy your business".
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So according to DPR... the site is going to be down for at least a few more days?!
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So according to DPR... the site is going to be down for at least a few more days?!
That's what DPR said, yes.
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So according to DPR... the site is going to be down for at least a few more days?!
That's what DPR said, yes.
Going to be quiet at the post offices.
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so its really over.. silkroad has been taken down by the feds?.. never thought this would happen.. OH WHAT A WORLD.. WHAT A WORLD IT IS.. !! WHYYYYY .??? WHY LORD !?!? WHY...
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So according to DPR... the site is going to be down for at least a few more days?!
That's what DPR said, yes.
what does DPR mean when he says. some users may be able to gain access via hidden URL's
is this for people who have orders out?
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Goddamn MONGRORIANS!
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so its really over.. silkroad has been taken down by the feds?.. never thought this would happen.. OH WHAT A WORLD.. WHAT A WORLD IT IS.. !! WHYYYYY .??? WHY LORD !?!? WHY...
Where did you get that??
If the feds were going to take down SR; why would they not also do the same to Atlantis?
Doesn't seem logical.
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Once again i'm kicking my own ass for leaving btc in my SR wallet, but i'm not too worried, this site is likely the livelihood for the people the run and they're not just going to let it sink, for reasons both monetary and moral.
Good luck DPR!! Fight Back!!!!
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It's probably the Mongowians.
Damn bro, 12,000 posts. How long have you been a vendor on the road for?
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Goddamn MONGRORIANS!
LOL. Well done for this post. +1
And DanDanTheIcecreamMan I have been on SR for about 13 months. :)
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UPDATE (04/30/2013 0035 UTC): We have come a long way in the battle, but still do not have the upper hand. It's looking more and more like a restructuring of the tor software or even the tor network will be required to mitigate the kind of attack we are under. If this can be solved by modifying the tor client software running the silk road .onion, then it will be a matter of patching and redeploying the hidden service. If it is a network issue, it will require the cooperation of the Tor developers, or running a new network of nodes. I haven't given up hope for a faster solution, but if one can not be found, then we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs. I'll keep everyone updated on how we will move forward, but please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access.
UPDATE (04/29/2013 0715 UTC): Just want to let you all know I'm still here and we're still doing battle behind the scenes to get the forums and main site running again. It is incredibly discouraging to have everything we've worked so hard for taken down by some anonymous and malevolent person, but your kind words of encouragement do wonders for our moral. We are on the cutting edge of anonymity technology here. The attacks being used against us MUST be overcome if Silk Road and any anonymous public sites are to have a future. Thank you again for your patience with all of this, and pray that we make it through stronger than we started.
We are being attacked once more. This time the forums are under attack as well. Access is intermittent, so hopefully some of you can read this. We are doing everything possible to overcome this latest attack. Please be patient while we find a solution.
thanks for the update DPR!
Does anyone know if the coins currently in our SR wallet or our oders will be effected by this maintenance?
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UPDATE (04/30/2013 0035 UTC): We have come a long way in the battle, but still do not have the upper hand. It's looking more and more like a restructuring of the tor software or even the tor network will be required to mitigate the kind of attack we are under. If this can be solved by modifying the tor client software running the silk road .onion, then it will be a matter of patching and redeploying the hidden service. If it is a network issue, it will require the cooperation of the Tor developers, or running a new network of nodes. I haven't given up hope for a faster solution, but if one can not be found, then we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs. I'll keep everyone updated on how we will move forward, but please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access.
UPDATE (04/29/2013 0715 UTC): Just want to let you all know I'm still here and we're still doing battle behind the scenes to get the forums and main site running again. It is incredibly discouraging to have everything we've worked so hard for taken down by some anonymous and malevolent person, but your kind words of encouragement do wonders for our moral. We are on the cutting edge of anonymity technology here. The attacks being used against us MUST be overcome if Silk Road and any anonymous public sites are to have a future. Thank you again for your patience with all of this, and pray that we make it through stronger than we started.
We are being attacked once more. This time the forums are under attack as well. Access is intermittent, so hopefully some of you can read this. We are doing everything possible to overcome this latest attack. Please be patient while we find a solution.
thanks for the update DPR!
Does anyone know if the coins currently in our SR wallet or our oders will be effected by this maintenance?
At least we know there is a back up plan for a worst case scenario. That is reassuring.
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how come every time the chines build a wall you mongolians gotta come and knock it down its my shitty chicken and beef? you want the shitty shrimp? anyway
DAN DAN THE ICE CREAM MAN you name makes me geek everytime so thank you
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thanks for the update DPR!
Does anyone know if the coins currently in our SR wallet or our oders will be effected by this maintenance?
No, wallets and orders shouldn't be affected.
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Man...this blows ass. I am bored as hell.
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Keep it up DPR, appreciate the hard work
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thanks for the update DPR!
Does anyone know if the coins currently in our SR wallet or our oders will be effected by this maintenance?
No, wallets and orders shouldn't be affected.
Thanks man
i cant wait until the road is back up and running
or atleast until DPR's next update
Much love_ Mcrad!
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Honestly, the worst part of SR being down is that I don't know if some vendors got my orders that I sent almost immediately before it went fully down. But I'll find out when they come in the mail. Oh, and I don't have my drug porn, but that's probably a good thing. :D
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No need to panic. DPR will come through with a solution like always, and even if it may be down for a few days it will be back up eventually some how no matter what. hopefully most vendors will honor their orders that they were able to get prepared for shipping before the server went down and things will be finalized in a few days when things are back to normal. Have faith in your Dread Pirate!
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good thing i got my important orders in and proccessed prior to this, so its not so bad that im not buying overpriced btc with paypal because i see something i wanna try, i do miss browsing though :'(
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No need to panic. DPR will come through with a solution like always, and even if it may be down for a few days it will be back up eventually some how no matter what. hopefully most vendors will honor their orders that they were able to get prepared for shipping before the server went down and things will be finalized in a few days when things are back to normal. Have faith in your Dread Pirate!
I am a seller and I sent out all of my orders I think most people will follow suit. I have as much faith is SR as I do my loyal customers ;)
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I put some orders in on friday night and received today so im happy :)
Ill be even happier in about 5 minutes :)
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SR will prevail. SR has helped far too many souls to simply go down like this. There is a lot of FUD and PSYOPs going on.
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UPDATE (04/30/2013 0035 UTC): We have come a long way in the battle, but still do not have the upper hand. It's looking more and more like a restructuring of the tor software or even the tor network will be required to mitigate the kind of attack we are under. If this can be solved by modifying the tor client software running the silk road .onion, then it will be a matter of patching and redeploying the hidden service. If it is a network issue, it will require the cooperation of the Tor developers, or running a new network of nodes. I haven't given up hope for a faster solution, but if one can not be found, then we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs. I'll keep everyone updated on how we will move forward, but please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access.
:'( Oh dear. This is not good.
Best of luck.
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Good luck DPR!
I wish you & the crew all the best. :)
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how will we get these URL's ?
my name here and my sr name are not the same...
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how will we get these URL's ?
my name here and my sr name are not the same...
im wondering the same thing
hopefully DPR or someone will have an answer for us soon
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I'm wondering if the URL's would be the same ones he listed back in November when SR was down for 7 days??
Anybody have those on hand?
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I'm wondering if the URL's would be the same ones he listed back in November when SR was down for 7 days??
Anybody have those on hand?
they dont work :(
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I'm wondering if the URL's would be the same ones he listed back in November when SR was down for 7 days??
Anybody have those on hand?
they dont work :(
yepp...found em actually
maybe these might be them once he launches the site
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perhaps it would be smarter to keep them under wraps rather than posting them publicly? ^
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perhaps it would be smarter to keep them under wraps rather than posting them publicly? ^
Just modified them...how are we supposed to get them anyways though?
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perhaps it would be smarter to keep them under wraps rather than posting them publicly? ^
Just modified them...how are we supposed to get them anyways though?
removed upon your request:)
much love_mcrad
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pray!
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without tormail how do we get these urls
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without tormail how do we get these urls
i would like to know the exact same thing
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Oh no , i left processing orders due to time restraints , and went to log on this am and no access again , oh well just hope my buyers dont mark me down for lateness . Knew i should have copied the address and order details.
Thank you for keeping us up to date it is much appreciated.
Kindest Regards
RP
Er is there another way ? I just read the last few comments , if any one has a way of accessing SR , then please PM me , would be greatly thanked.
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Is it safe to pm on this site about orders and stuff using privinote or some other deice
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Is it safe to pm on this site about orders and stuff using privinote or some other deice
a short answer would be No ; privnote uses clearweb which could be a security threat
use pgp whenever possible
i know i read a thread the other day about a .onion that was like privnote (i cant quiet remember the name of the thread though)
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I thought so oh well just hang tight I suppose
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Good luck DPR and crew, we believe in you.
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its all being done from mark zuckerbergs bedroom on his laptop. he ping floods the place.
he cant stand people having privacy on the internet. when tor came along it got personal.. as zuckerberg prides his success on people giving away their privacy.
only thing we probably do is deal drugs via facebook and include photos and a timeline of it. its personal with him.. but so are his ping floods. he's too scared somebody at the facebook hq will see his attacks - you see, zuckerberg likes to do these things ANONYMOUSLY AND WITH PRIVACY while he plans to implement toilet cam on facebook for the rest of us
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its all being done from mark zuckerbergs bedroom on his laptop. he ping floods the place.
he cant stand people having privacy on the internet. when tor came along it got personal.. as zuckerberg prides his success on people giving away their privacy.
only thing we probably do is deal drugs via facebook and include photos and a timeline of it. its personal with him.. but so are his ping floods. he's too scared somebody at the facebook hq will see his attacks - you see, zuckerberg likes to do these things ANONYMOUSLY AND WITH PRIVACY while he plans to implement toilet cam on facebook for the rest of us
gosh im starting to hate zuckerberg more and more each day!
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its all being done from mark zuckerbergs bedroom on his laptop. he ping floods the place.
he cant stand people having privacy on the internet. when tor came along it got personal.. as zuckerberg prides his success on people giving away their privacy.
only thing we probably do is deal drugs via facebook and include photos and a timeline of it. its personal with him.. but so are his ping floods. he's too scared somebody at the facebook hq will see his attacks - you see, zuckerberg likes to do these things ANONYMOUSLY AND WITH PRIVACY while he plans to implement toilet cam on facebook for the rest of us
Fuck facebook, I can't believe so many people participate in it. If the government sent you a letter demanding all the info they freely share it would be an uproar, but they have tricked you into thinking it is normal behavior to constantly update everything about your life.
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So the ATTACK against FORUM was solved or ended???
Damn the numbers of folks trying to get into constructive discussion or just some info on forum, must make server pretty busy too with that 50 posts limit, so many clicks to reach it, and the page You may wish to review your post mostly double it...
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Indeed deleting that shit was the best thing ive done since joining silk road
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Shite.. I don't have my bloody emergency address up to date in SR - I really hope DPR offers a way to update this via PM's or something :(
I'm sure it'll be ok anyway - I'm not going anywhere else.
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My day so far:
*refresh*.... :-[
*refresh*.... :-[
*refresh*.... :-[
I need to get outside, this is driving me crazy...
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How can I ship orders without marking them as dispatched, I risk the order being cancelled and not getting paid at all. Please find a way of mitigating this bullshit! Pressing F5 thousands of times is starting to send me insane, no-one can finalize, I need to get paid :( :'( How many customers are going to be constantly checking the attack has subsided day after day? This situation is not compatible with the escrow system
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My day so far:
*refresh*.... :-[
*refresh*.... :-[
*refresh*.... :-[
I need to get outside, this is driving me crazy...
I don't think you're the only one. I'm mostly worried about all of my BTC in balance on top of the 1000s I just placed orders in during about the hour of up-time yesterday. I hope vendors and customers with outstanding orders are given this private URL somehow so everything can keep turning.
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ARE my BTC safe in my account :(
DPR GOOD LUCK WE ALL HAVE FAITH IN YOU
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I got 2 items today thanks guys 8) will pay you asap ???
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ARE my BTC safe in my account :(
DPR GOOD LUCK WE ALL HAVE FAITH IN YOU
It is just a denial of service attack bro, the site itself has not been compromised... your coins will be there when it returns.
My day so far:
*refresh*.... :-[
*refresh*.... :-[
*refresh*.... :-[
I need to get outside, this is driving me crazy...
I know that feeling. I had to punch a baby several times in the face and drink a fifth of vodka today just to calm myself down.
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i wonder if funds will be released to emergency bitcoin addresses, or what will happen with finalization. ill probably receive a shipment tomorrow.
Autofinalize has been disabled, and finalization in general as well since no one can access the site.
Are you sure? Last time SR was down a few days I had an order auto-finazlize. I am worried my buyer stats will be fucked up by this crash. I really do pay when I can get to the site.
Yes, I'm sure because DPR posted that in one of his updates.
hahah
WHAT SCOUT MEANS is he knows absolutely fuck all
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I found a few articles on clearnet that are related to preventing selective DOS of a TOR service. The last article contains a post by the author of pyLoris that describes his recommendations for mitigating DOS from pyLoris and Tor in general. I hope one of these helps. I will be doing as much research as I can to help find a solution.
hxxp://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.3863.pdf
"Anonymous communication systems are subject to selective denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Selective DoS attacks lower anonymity as they force paths to be rebuilt multiple times to ensure delivery which increases the opportunity for more attack. In this paper we present a detection algorithm that filters out compromised communication channels for one of the anonymity networks, Tor. Our detection algorithm uses two levels of probing to filter out potentially com-promised tunnels. We perform probabilistic analysis and extensive simulation to
show the robustness of our detection algorithm. We also analyze the overhead of our detection algorithm and show that we can achieve satisfactory security guar-antee for reasonable communication overhead (~5% of the total available Tor bandwidth). Real world experiments reveal that our detection algorithm provides good defense against selective DoS attack."
hxxp://fc09.ifca.ai/papers/43_Detecting_dos_in_tor.pdf
"More recently, Borisov et al. [3] showed that an adversary willing to engage in denial of service (DoS) could increase their probability of compromising anonymity. When a path is
reconstructed after a denial of service, new proxies are chosen, and thus the adversary has another chance to be on the endpoints of the path. Our contributions are as follows. We prove that an adversary engaging in the DoS attack in an idealized Tor-like system can be detected by probing at most 3n paths in the system, where n is the number of proxies in the system. Through simulation, we show that an adversary attempting to avoid detection by engaging in DoS probabilistically can still be detected, and that the attempt to avoid detection radically degrades the effectiveness of the attack. Finally, using measurements of connection drop rates across Tor nodes, we implement a version of the detection algorithm and conclude it is unlikely that such an attack was in progress during the time period the network was observed."
hxxp://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19698/mitigating-anonymous-dos-tor-combined-with-pyloris
"sarepta: To start off, I am the author of PyLoris, so I have done a good amount of research into this. In fact, the attack you have envisioned is one that I specifically coded to when developing PyLoris--the current version even comes bundled with an helper app tor_switcher.py which routes the attack through multiple Tor exit nodes.
The only good way of detecting a Tor-based flood is by checking source IP addresses against known Tor exit nodes. This is trivial with blacklisting or plugins like mod_security. In my research, mod_antilors does not prevent the PyLoris+Tor vector as it is IP address based. My personal choice for preventing this attack is to use any server other than Apache to handle direct connections from the internet. This could mean using a reverse proxy like Varnish to marshal requests or switching to something like nginx for your web server.
Aside from rethinking your infrastructure, I do feel that a combination of low timeouts, IP connection limits, minimum data transfer rates, maximum connection time limits, and maximum request sizes can provide adequate protection from this form of attack. I say this all with the disclaimer that there is no way to prevent this form of attack, and that these configurations should be thought through thoroughly to gauge their impact on a per-server basis."
please shut up
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I set my backup address but haven't received anything yet. I think it's about time DPR sent these out.
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It's interesting to look at Atlas - some of the highest bandwidth TOR nodes online right now all show a burst in traffic starting just about when the most recent DOS started.
These nodes in particular:
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/80F870DD215A0C56005266A71C46F92F39F1973B
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/0ECBAB33DD27A6DA5C1141B39F839F931F92334C
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/D0236B1908B3CC686DB0A361F4931073A25793F1
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/43691853EA556C21A77E006886A5DC579855F527
It could be that these in particular are listed among the highest bandwidth nodes currently simply because they're being used to pass on DOS traffic to SR, but they certainly show a traffic pattern not visible on the other high bandwidth nodes, and between them they're topping a gigabit in traffic...
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Havent those guys got anything better to do than try to hack our shopping place and community hot spot? >:(
Might be time to stock up.... :-X
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it's a very sad news... more a few days , aff :\
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Oh man. If I cannot get about $750 out of escrow and turned into USD by friday, I probably won't make rent.
Gonna be an interesting week! LOL
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Oh man. If I cannot get about $750 out of escrow and turned into USD by friday, I probably won't make rent.
Gonna be an interesting week! LOL
Yikes, that's definitely a shitty situation. Keep us posted. If all else fails I have a feeling this community would band together to help you meet your needs until the site is back. I'd pitch in.
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tor mail seems to be up again thats a start
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You cannot DDoS a revolution.
**"LOAD THE CANNONS!"**
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Oh man. If I cannot get about $750 out of escrow and turned into USD by friday, I probably won't make rent.
Gonna be an interesting week! LOL
Yikes, that's definitely a shitty situation. Keep us posted. If all else fails I have a feeling this community would band together to help you meet your needs until the site is back. I'd pitch in.
Wow, HEATFan. That is incredible of you! <3
Yeah, I kinda fucked up to be honest. I have a lot of faith in this community and believe very strongly in what is being done here, and I've been (and still am) willing to invest a lot of myself in this place, which includes taking risks... but hopefully I've not pushed it to a point of no return. :( I really want to be able to stick around and offer the good people here my products and services, as they seem to have enjoyed them so far...
*crosses fingers and all other appendages*
Hey, I still have a fair amount of weed, GHB and 2C-I to get rid of if anyone wants to contact me via PM or tormail (foreverjung@tormail.org). I refuse to go to BMR and Atlantis, I hope everyone will understand.
SR FOR LIFE!!! :D
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Oh, and I was finally gonna be eligible for my bond refund/vendor roundtable as of tomorrow. FML! lol...
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Best of luck.
Subbing for updates.
Stay safe.
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if site not back up in a day or so, or the private URLs are not up and running, maybe have the coins in vendors wallets sent to the back up one we have set up. or a way for us to ask for them to be sent to that wallet. sucks having that money tie up like this.
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Oh man. If I cannot get about $750 out of escrow and turned into USD by friday, I probably won't make rent.
Gonna be an interesting week! LOL
Damn FJ, that really sucks man. Everybody needs to know how awesome this vendor is. I really hope everything works out for you. Let me know if there's anything I can do.
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Oh man. If I cannot get about $750 out of escrow and turned into USD by friday, I probably won't make rent.
Gonna be an interesting week! LOL
Not quite the vendor you are, but in the same position... nothing to do but LOL!
I wish I could help... Here's some moral support:
Go team! I have complete faith!*
*prove me right!
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I really feel for all the vendors with funds held up on SR. I will likely be receiving a package today and I'm sad I won't be able to finalize. I love you guys and SR :-[
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Oh man. If I cannot get about $750 out of escrow and turned into USD by friday, I probably won't make rent.
Gonna be an interesting week! LOL
Hey i haven't bought from you but I trust you are a solid vendor. All i got is 0.00800479 BTC left in my wallet, which is like a dollar and some change. Id be more than happy to donate ! shoot me a PM or post your receive address. i know its not much but im offering it up.
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so another day SR is down. we believe in you SR. We will wait as long as needed.
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Oh man. If I cannot get about $750 out of escrow and turned into USD by friday, I probably won't make rent.
Gonna be an interesting week! LOL
Yikes, that's definitely a shitty situation. Keep us posted. If all else fails I have a feeling this community would band together to help you meet your needs until the site is back. I'd pitch in.
Wow, HEATFan. That is incredible of you! <3
Yeah, I kinda fucked up to be honest. I have a lot of faith in this community and believe very strongly in what is being done here, and I've been (and still am) willing to invest a lot of myself in this place, which includes taking risks... but hopefully I've not pushed it to a point of no return. :( I really want to be able to stick around and offer the good people here my products and services, as they seem to have enjoyed them so far...
*crosses fingers and all other appendages*
Hey, I still have a fair amount of weed, GHB and 2C-I to get rid of if anyone wants to contact me via PM or tormail (foreverjung@tormail.org). I refuse to go to BMR and Atlantis, I hope everyone will understand.
SR FOR LIFE!!! :D
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Oh, and I was finally gonna be eligible for my bond refund/vendor roundtable as of tomorrow. FML! lol...
I was going to offer to lend you the money till I realised all my coins are on the road at the moment! (Usually keep a G or so in a pare wallet)
As for your vendor refund, you know you get the amount of coins back you paid? So if at the time it was only $30 a coin, and you paid 15 coins, you will still get 15 back now, regardless of what the BTC is worth! :)
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OK. This is really starting to SUCK !
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Why haven't our bitcoins been sent to our backup wallets? I only have a small amount in there, but so many people have money stuck in there that they need.
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sign'd
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On the positive side...Recreational tolerance will be sooo very low when SR is back up and running..We'll all be getting twice as high
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On the positive side...Recreational tolerance will be sooo very low when SR is back up and running..We'll all be getting twice as high
+1 Can't wait to be so high again I'll have totally red bloodshot eyes like a zombie. I don't usually get bloodshot eyes when I get high, but anytime I've had a break and I smoke again they light up like christmas tree ornaments.
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C'mon, I'm a junkie this is absolutely unacceptable to have even 1 minute of down time!
On a serious note, don't give them bastards a bitcent and good luck with getting us back up. We'll be here.
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positive energy to SR everyone!!!!
come on lads you can do it
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I wouldn't mind getting my funds back, either. I am not desperate and it isn't a lot of BTC, but still it would reassure me that the feature for getting back my BTC actually works. If the feature is only supposed to work when Law Enforcement capture the servers, then it will be too late.
In my opinion, BTC should be returned if SR is down for more than 3 days.
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Hello Admin/DRP,
I have suggested to you many times and long ago to make the forum visible by members only (after login), and possibly 1 account per SR main account to forum account Anyway now it's too late. It seems you did not give importance to that and SR is infamous all over the news and web, LE, anonymous hackers and anyone can easily read your updates or spread all over the open web even more and attack your servers repeatedly, even used to performing SQL injections. Do you bother to read members' precious feedback in the feature request?
You did not hide the forum from reporters, journalists and LE because you wanted to 'boost' the popularity and sales volume, now, it has the price to be paid.
Please, it's time to take into real consideration members' precious suggestion than to do things your own way.
I am just curious, have you ever seriously taken the advices from your loyal members?
Also, seriously, you are putting the blame of DDoS attack to Tor's network? Input from any experts?
Thanks for your time if you are reading it.
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C'mon, I'm a junkie this is absolutely unacceptable to have even 1 minute of down time!
On a serious note, don't give them bastards a bitcent and good luck with getting us back up. We'll be here.
Judge if you must, but this is making some of us sick. I'm barely functioning at work today - everyone thinks I have the flu. Unfortunately, this is only the beginning...
And remember those in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones.
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Ideally, attacks like this should not be possible over the tor network, sure seems to me like the developers of tor need to revamp security!
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Forum being attacked again???
I seem to be having a difficult time connecting/browsing
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Oh man. If I cannot get about $750 out of escrow and turned into USD by friday, I probably won't make rent.
Gonna be an interesting week! LOL
Yikes, that's definitely a shitty situation. Keep us posted. If all else fails I have a feeling this community would band together to help you meet your needs until the site is back. I'd pitch in.
Wow, HEATFan. That is incredible of you! <3
Yeah, I kinda fucked up to be honest. I have a lot of faith in this community and believe very strongly in what is being done here, and I've been (and still am) willing to invest a lot of myself in this place, which includes taking risks... but hopefully I've not pushed it to a point of no return. :( I really want to be able to stick around and offer the good people here my products and services, as they seem to have enjoyed them so far...
*crosses fingers and all other appendages*
Hey, I still have a fair amount of weed, GHB and 2C-I to get rid of if anyone wants to contact me via PM or tormail (foreverjung@tormail.org). I refuse to go to BMR and Atlantis, I hope everyone will understand.
SR FOR LIFE!!! :D
Edit:
Oh, and I was finally gonna be eligible for my bond refund/vendor roundtable as of tomorrow. FML! lol...
Well sales have been nothing more than absent lately, but I got $65 for you man. As long as you got a refund promise once the road is running. I always take herb too lol. I'd need to grab an address for that (PM me sir). Also, friendly advice, the 3 business day turn around sounds like the destination is sold in an open market then moved to an account. Some very reliable (Mama Bear and such, I can get names bur as always I advise your own research) could do a MoneyPac code. I have had same day turn around, then covert to a money order or cashiers check.
Best wishes bro! As for the road, I said last night "I have not been this low on herb in so long, I miss my road" lol.
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Fortunately I'm still able to get my ganja from BMR, but the BHO selection there is low--oh, I hope SR comes back! I'm almost out of this lovely SFV OG kush BHO from scoobydoosmokes.
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Hey guys/gals - QM here, I'm one of the largest vendors on SR. all of you who need Benzos, Soma, and Tramadol, don't fret - I am going to open my store on BMR starting tonight. I know my customers are in need, not being able to get their orders. I'm assuming that my pending orders are going to be cancelled, with the latest DPR update - and it seems we won't have SR back for at least this week. I'm staying loyal to SR - as soon as SR opens again, I'll be back here and off BMR. But until then, my customers need their meds so I'll be over on BMR. Again, I'm staying loyal to SR, as soon as SR opens again, I'll be back here. Any other vendors think this is a good idea? BMR now, once SR is back, I'll pull my BMR listings.
I am kind of short on benzos at the moment, I'll have limited stock, but I do have a lot of Tramadol and Soma, in my experience, all of you who are on oxy or other opiates, tramadol is great for mitigating withdrawals. I'm reading all these posts of people going through withdrawals and not being able to go to work, and I have plenty of Tramadol to help with that. I'll be on BMR if you need it. Look for me in about 12 hours there...
QM
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Well, I’ve hit Jr Forum member status, so I thought I would celebrate with a big fuck off TLDR stating some of my thoughts about my life and the road. Some of you might find it interesting, I’m basically bored at work so I thought it would be worth sharing with you lot (who are all awesome by the way).
The road has presented some interesting times in my life over the last 7 months or so. I started out buying standard recreational weekend drugs that I had difficulty getting hold of IRL. Then after a few transactions that went extremely well, started also using it exclusively for all my drugs such as cannabis and vals to aid me after my Friday night binge.
I am strictly a weekend warrior when it comes to drugs, so I feel for those of you who have deeper dependency than myself (and am not really qualified to present any feedback or strategies for dependence management). But I wanted to share my habits with you all. I believe that the reason I came to the road was because I was always forward thinking with my drug buying. I hated the people who were so short sighted with buying drugs, when I asked a group of friends if they wanted in they’d be like ‘well, it’s 10:00AM on a Tuesday, and I can’t imagine what I will feel like at 10:30 PM on Friday after 5 beers I don’t fancy any now so, ‘’no’’ I’ll be fine’. Then sure enough Friday rolls round and drinks after work everyone is like ‘can we go 2’s on that bag you got?’
So I think there’s an element of that when SR goes down, it fucks with our planning; DPR has created a platform that beats buying contraband IRL. SR has been such a pleasure to use, I have done Xx + transactions and all have been flawless.
We know it’s going to be good quality, and are protected by Escrow.
I was here last Nov when it all went tits up and people claimed DPR ran off with all the coins. It’s true since then he’s bounced back after every setback that followed Nov. But it seems this is his most challenging problem to date, based on his last update. I have no reason to doubt DPR based on his track record in recent months, but all theories aside this might simply be out of his hands. I wish him and his team all the best.
Anyways, just my experiences on here, pointless blather really, but thought worth sharing.
Wish we lived in a more free world.
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Fortunately I'm still able to get my ganja from BMR, but the BHO selection there is low--oh, I hope SR comes back! I'm almost out of this lovely SFV OG kush BHO from scoobydoosmokes.
Just got my G of SFV OG from Scoobey Yesterday! Lucky me! I love it as well!
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I was also thinking of putting my listings up on BMR JUST until the road is up just in case there are lots of people that are in need of ordering Xanax powder from me.....feel free to contact me here on the forums or tormail anyone! All orders that were marked in transit have been shipped. I do not think I am going to make an account on BMR....it just seems wrong to be "cheating" :P on the road haha. I have lots of faith in DPR fixing this issue and we can still conduct business without registering on a "rival" site... BUT I won't lie that it has crossed my mind because at least they have an escrow service over there and its not like its expensive to put listings up on BMR.....Do a lot of people go over there when the road is down? Because it being down this often actually REALLY cuts into sales badly, so I have seriously been considering putting listings up on BMR. What does the community think? I personally am just hoping this attack is over with soon! I will ALWAYS be loyal to the road over ANY other place. I love it here, but also think it might be a good idea to have backup listings on BMR JUST for when the road is down? Let me know what you guys think :)
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Will auto-finalizing still occur while SR is down? I don't have many transactions and I don't want an auto-finalize if at all possible - especially as I wouldn't be able to actively prevent it.
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Will auto-finalizing still occur while SR is down? I don't have many transactions and I don't want an auto-finalize if at all possible - especially as I wouldn't be able to actively prevent it.
Auto-finalization has been disabled until the road is back up - this has been confirmed from the SR team :)
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I’m not a vendor, but again I might as well convey some of my thoughts.
The idea of not going to BMR out of loyalty seems a little absurd to me. I mean why not? The reason I think many don’t is because BMR is a bit shit. BMR to me seems a more risky endeavour for a buyer and a vendor – again this is purely based on my own feelings, based on the listing I’ve seen over there.
Although, I have conducted some very small transactions over there and it went without any problems – I just think a lot more diligence and security is needed.
IMO SR shits all over BMR but there's no reason not to use it if it's going to increase your revenue flow
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Private URL's for Vendors so we can log in and process outstanding orders and mark shipped orders as 'in transit' would be appreciated :)
kb
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Just wanted to give a big thanks to all the SR team who are working hard and endlessly behind the scenes to get SR back up and running.
Real shame that this has happened, we are on here, minding our own business, not causing harm to anyone, yet there always has to be someone that wants to ruin it for everyone else! Some people just want to watch the world burn!
Hope you guys get it sorted soon, if we as a team can over come this then there's a bright future ahead for SR. Its nice to see people trying to offer help to the sr staff, shows that people are here for good and not just to get what drugs they want and move on, everyone wants this site to work and do well, that way everyone is a winner, the owners make there money, the venders get there money, and the customers get good quality product!
Hope to see that Home Page soon! ( Ya dont realize what you got till it has gone!)
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Private URL's for Vendors so we can log in and process outstanding orders and mark shipped orders as 'in transit' would be appreciated :)
kb
As a buyer, this would be the update that meant the most to me. Having a over a thousand in recently ordered products, I have no idea where my money stands and I'd like to have product to sell before bills are due.
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Good luck DREAD. You are our hero. I hope you can overcome this attack!!
of course this happens right after i sent a bitcoin to the site :[
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Well, I’ve hit Jr Forum member status, so I thought I would celebrate with a big fuck off TLDR stating some of my thoughts about my life and the road. Some of you might find it interesting, I’m basically bored at work so I thought it would be worth sharing with you lot (who are all awesome by the way).
The road has presented some interesting times in my life over the last 7 months or so. I started out buying standard recreational weekend drugs that I had difficulty getting hold of IRL. Then after a few transactions that went extremely well, started also using it exclusively for all my drugs such as cannabis and vals to aid me after my Friday night binge.
I am strictly a weekend warrior when it comes to drugs, so I feel for those of you who have deeper dependency than myself (and am not really qualified to present any feedback or strategies for dependence management). But I wanted to share my habits with you all. I believe that the reason I came to the road was because I was always forward thinking with my drug buying. I hated the people who were so short sighted with buying drugs, when I asked a group of friends if they wanted in they’d be like ‘well, it’s 10:00AM on a Tuesday, and I can’t imagine what I will feel like at 10:30 PM on Friday after 5 beers I don’t fancy any now so, ‘’no’’ I’ll be fine’. Then sure enough Friday rolls round and drinks after work everyone is like ‘can we go 2’s on that bag you got?’
So I think there’s an element of that when SR goes down, it fucks with our planning; DPR has created a platform that beats buying contraband IRL. SR has been such a pleasure to use, I have done Xx + transactions and all have been flawless.
We know it’s going to be good quality, and are protected by Escrow.
I was here last Nov when it all went tits up and people claimed DPR ran off with all the coins. It’s true since then he’s bounced back after every setback that followed Nov. But it seems this is his most challenging problem to date, based on his last update. I have no reason to doubt DPR based on his track record in recent months, but all theories aside this might simply be out of his hands. I wish him and his team all the best.
Anyways, just my experiences on here, pointless blather really, but thought worth sharing.
Wish we lived in a more free world.
Fuck it, have some Karma ;)
Its like your cake day, but not. Lulz.
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Private URL's for Vendors so we can log in and process outstanding orders and mark shipped orders as 'in transit' would be appreciated :)
kb
Yes, that would be HUGELY appreciated. I have a stack of orders simply waiting for me to slap addresses on 'em. Feels bad man, I want to get these people their weed :(
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Private URL's for Vendors so we can log in and process outstanding orders and mark shipped orders as 'in transit' would be appreciated :)
kb
Yes, that would be HUGELY appreciated. I have a stack of orders simply waiting for me to slap addresses on 'em. Feels bad man, I want to get these people their weed :(
This should be the next step. I can't see the attacker stopping their attack anytime soon, so we should try to get those orders put in transit. Just to show that asshat "hacker" that we can and will survive this storm and continue to function as an effective darknet black market that actually reduces violent crime.
Long live anarcho-capitalism & DPR
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Oh man. If I cannot get about $750 out of escrow and turned into USD by friday, I probably won't make rent.
Gonna be an interesting week! LOL
Yikes, that's definitely a shitty situation. Keep us posted. If all else fails I have a feeling this community would band together to help you meet your needs until the site is back. I'd pitch in.
Wow, HEATFan. That is incredible of you! <3
Yeah, I kinda fucked up to be honest. I have a lot of faith in this community and believe very strongly in what is being done here, and I've been (and still am) willing to invest a lot of myself in this place, which includes taking risks... but hopefully I've not pushed it to a point of no return. :( I really want to be able to stick around and offer the good people here my products and services, as they seem to have enjoyed them so far...
*crosses fingers and all other appendages*
Hey, I still have a fair amount of weed, GHB and 2C-I to get rid of if anyone wants to contact me via PM or tormail (foreverjung@tormail.org). I refuse to go to BMR and Atlantis, I hope everyone will understand.
SR FOR LIFE!!! :D
Edit:
Oh, and I was finally gonna be eligible for my bond refund/vendor roundtable as of tomorrow. FML! lol...
Well sales have been nothing more than absent lately, but I got $65 for you man. As long as you got a refund promise once the road is running. I always take herb too lol. I'd need to grab an address for that (PM me sir). Also, friendly advice, the 3 business day turn around sounds like the destination is sold in an open market then moved to an account. Some very reliable (Mama Bear and such, I can get names bur as always I advise your own research) could do a MoneyPac code. I have had same day turn around, then covert to a money order or cashiers check.
Best wishes bro! As for the road, I said last night "I have not been this low on herb in so long, I miss my road" lol.
YOU ARE A GODSEND! Thanks so much. See my Sig now for the btc address. I will send you and ANYONE else who donates to my cause a full refund and some special extras as soon as I'm able. I would be doing fine if I had the $ from the dozens of orders I've sent out recently, and presumably will. And yeah, the idea was to go btc -> moneypak instantly, the reason I say Friday is that if I give my landlord a check for rent on Wednesday, then it won't go through my account till Friday, so I have until for thing that morning to get the cash in there.
Man, my life's convoluted. LOL Love you guys so much! <3
Oh, and once again to all my customers: I got ALL orders sent, the last of them should arive within the next day or 2...
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Evil cannot win where goodness exists
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Private URL's for Vendors so we can log in and process outstanding orders and mark shipped orders as 'in transit' would be appreciated :)
kb
Yes, that would be HUGELY appreciated. I have a stack of orders simply waiting for me to slap addresses on 'em. Feels bad man, I want to get these people their weed :(
Not a vendor but I stand by this suggestion. Just like in the past with SR issues, I recall vendors getting access first.
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Private URL's for Vendors so we can log in and process outstanding orders and mark shipped orders as 'in transit' would be appreciated :)
kb
Yes, that would be HUGELY appreciated. I have a stack of orders simply waiting for me to slap addresses on 'em. Feels bad man, I want to get these people their weed :(
Not a vendor but I stand by this suggestion. Just like in the past with SR issues, I recall vendors getting access first.
I'm not a vendor, but I approve this message, as I have absolutely no idea what the status of my last order is.
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C'mon, I'm a junkie this is absolutely unacceptable to have even 1 minute of down time!
On a serious note, don't give them bastards a bitcent and good luck with getting us back up. We'll be here.
Judge if you must, but this is making some of us sick. I'm barely functioning at work today - everyone thinks I have the flu. Unfortunately, this is only the beginning...
And remember those in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones.
The 1st thing I thought about when the site went down was how are some opiate dependent people going to get their medication. I`ve been on methadone for 4 years, but haven`t forgotten what its like to be dope sick. Stay strong bud, DPR will get things up and running again.
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I just saw some life!! SR just loaded the cannot process request error... At least its something.
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C'mon, I'm a junkie this is absolutely unacceptable to have even 1 minute of down time!
On a serious note, don't give them bastards a bitcent and good luck with getting us back up. We'll be here.
Judge if you must, but this is making some of us sick. I'm barely functioning at work today - everyone thinks I have the flu. Unfortunately, this is only the beginning...
And remember those in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones.
The 1st thing I thought about when the site went down was how are some opiate dependent people going to get their medication. I`ve been on methadone for 4 years, but haven`t forgotten what its like to be dope sick. Stay strong bud, DPR will get things up and running again.
I'm in the same boat as the rest of you.. I got on SR yesterday before noon when it was briefly working and got two orders in, but not long after that the site seemed completely unaccessible for the rest of the day. Sadly, the mail lady just came and didnt have my order so I guess the vendors were unable to get to my orders and I look/feel like I've got the flu @ work today. Barely made it out of bed and came in late, been poppin loratadine like mad but still my body feels weak and achy, ugh.... :(
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Everyone just needs to smoke a fatty and chill out. I have complete faith in DPR and his crew. It's just a matter of time until SR is back up an running smooth. It's been down for 2 days and everyone is freakin out. I remember back in Nov it was down for 7 and everyone thought it was the end of the world, myself included.
I have had over 8k in processing escrow since the BTC crash..... :-\
I know i'll be fine, I trust DPR and his crew!
and fuck those fucking hackers!! They need to get hit with a bag of dicks and get a life you cock sucking cum guzzlers!
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Everyone just needs to smoke a fatty and chill out. I have complete faith in DPR and his crew. It's just a matter of time until SR is back up an running smooth. It's been down for 2 days and everyone is freakin out. I remember back in Nov it was down for 7 and everyone thought it was the end of the world, myself included.
I have had over 8k in processing escrow since the BTC crash..... :-\
I know i'll be fine, I trust DPR and his crew!
and fuck those fucking hackers!! They need to get hit with a bag of dicks and get a life you cock sucking cum guzzlers!
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Judge if you must, but this is making some of us sick. I'm barely functioning at work today - everyone thinks I have the flu. Unfortunately, this is only the beginning...
And remember those in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones.
i dont mean to put you down, but you dug your own hole of addiction, and you are the only one who can climb out.
opiates=shitty drugs! ;)
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Any updates? What made this attack worse then the last attack? Is it the same?
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The funny thing is, looking at the forums, I'd say half the problem is immature buyers hitting F5 every 10 seconds. Yeah it sucks, trust me, I have 5 orders on hold, 3 being felony level,one being international. The forums have been sporadic for me today. hope they dont go down..
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I don't have much of anything to add to what people have said and/or asked here, and I'm not in as bad a situation as a lot of other people either (although I have been continually refreshing a slightly mistyped forum URL for over 24 hours before I found a link this morning!)
To everyone with money tied up that's effecting their lives and mental health, and to the people with dependencies that are struggling, and to DPR and whoever is working to get the road back on track, I wish you all the best!
Just one selfish question that's likely only relevant to me... My backup bitcoin address is an Instawallet. If Silk Road tries to send my money there, will it just bounce back? Or will I have to make a claim with instawallet or something?
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Yeah I was just thinking how hard it must be to troubleshoot this when you have a ton of users trying to get on.
Everyone should probably check the forums instead of loading SR every few seconds. Someone will eventually say "I GOT IN!"...everyone who saw that and thought I got in I apologize I have not, it was just an example...dont hate me lol
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Oh man. If I cannot get about $750 out of escrow and turned into USD by friday, I probably won't make rent.
Gonna be an interesting week! LOL
Yikes, that's definitely a shitty situation. Keep us posted. If all else fails I have a feeling this community would band together to help you meet your needs until the site is back. I'd pitch in.
Wow, HEATFan. That is incredible of you! <3
Yeah, I kinda fucked up to be honest. I have a lot of faith in this community and believe very strongly in what is being done here, and I've been (and still am) willing to invest a lot of myself in this place, which includes taking risks... but hopefully I've not pushed it to a point of no return. :( I really want to be able to stick around and offer the good people here my products and services, as they seem to have enjoyed them so far...
*crosses fingers and all other appendages*
Hey, I still have a fair amount of weed, GHB and 2C-I to get rid of if anyone wants to contact me via PM or tormail (foreverjung@tormail.org). I refuse to go to BMR and Atlantis, I hope everyone will understand.
SR FOR LIFE!!! :D
Edit:
Oh, and I was finally gonna be eligible for my bond refund/vendor roundtable as of tomorrow. FML! lol...
Well sales have been nothing more than absent lately, but I got $65 for you man. As long as you got a refund promise once the road is running. I always take herb too lol. I'd need to grab an address for that (PM me sir). Also, friendly advice, the 3 business day turn around sounds like the destination is sold in an open market then moved to an account. Some very reliable (Mama Bear and such, I can get names bur as always I advise your own research) could do a MoneyPac code. I have had same day turn around, then covert to a money order or cashiers check.
Best wishes bro! As for the road, I said last night "I have not been this low on herb in so long, I miss my road" lol.
YOU ARE A GODSEND! Thanks so much. See my Sig now for the btc address. I will send you and ANYONE else who donates to my cause a full refund and some special extras as soon as I'm able. I would be doing fine if I had the $ from the dozens of orders I've sent out recently, and presumably will. And yeah, the idea was to go btc -> moneypak instantly, the reason I say Friday is that if I give my landlord a check for rent on Wednesday, then it won't go through my account till Friday, so I have until for thing that morning to get the cash in there.
Man, my life's convoluted. LOL Love you guys so much! <3
Oh, and once again to all my customers: I got ALL orders sent, the last of them should arive within the next day or 2...
I don't know you and haven't dealt with you, but I have heard good things about you. I'll throw something nice your way to help you out as I've been in a similar situation myself and got helped by someone (not SR related) - but what goes round comes round. It's important we all stick together and fight for SR 8)
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I've been silent on the forums for months because I had nothing of note to say. I still felt that way until I saw people opening saying they were giving ANY business to BMR. Every penny you addicts sent through that insecure shithole is just helping to pay for the continuing attack on SR.
BMR isn't under attack right now. Why? They either paid the extortionist or they're involved in the entire ordeal. It's like a giant red flag when the less secure site is the one having no problems at all. Anyone else notice that BMR just happened to have the capacity to handle the influx of SR people in place when the attack went down? They sure as hell didn't have that extra capacity as recently as three weeks ago.
So go ahead and send your ducats cash to those dicks. Your funding the death of SR in doing so.
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maybe spot ya 25 bucks too mate if it helps :)
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I've been silent on the forums for months because I had nothing of note to say. I still felt that way until I saw people opening saying they were giving ANY business to BMR. Every penny you addicts sent through that insecure shithole is just helping to pay for the continuing attack on SR.
BMR isn't under attack right now. Why? They either paid the extortionist or they're involved in the entire ordeal. It's like a giant red flag when the less secure site is the one having no problems at all. Anyone else notice that BMR just happened to have the capacity to handle the influx of SR people in place when the attack went down? They sure as hell didn't have that extra capacity as recently as three weeks ago.
So go ahead and send your ducats cash to those dicks. Your funding the death of SR in doing so.
+1
BMR or any other site isn't getting anything off me. I'd rather hold out and wait for SR and use street contacts in the meantime. 100% agree with what you say - The attack in my humble opinion is coming from a competing site, therefore feeding it is fucking us all right up the shitter in the long term.
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Yeah I was just thinking how hard it must be to troubleshoot this when you have a ton of users trying to get on.
Everyone should probably check the forums instead of loading SR every few seconds. Someone will eventually say "I GOT IN!"...everyone who saw that and thought I got in I apologize I have not, it was just an example...dont hate me lol
I want to be that person
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Yeah I signed up for BMR and the site really has nothing, it seems really shady, a poor copy of the road at best.
I went back on there today and every vendor selling is like well I know you SR refugee's are here so your welcome to order from me...
It does suck though, where I live now you can't even buy alcohol, its crazy...
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I've been silent on the forums for months because I had nothing of note to say. I still felt that way until I saw people opening saying they were giving ANY business to BMR. Every penny you addicts sent through that insecure shithole is just helping to pay for the continuing attack on SR.
BMR isn't under attack right now. Why? They either paid the extortionist or they're involved in the entire ordeal. It's like a giant red flag when the less secure site is the one having no problems at all.
This is completely baseless. There's absolutely no reason to suspect that just because SR is being attacked and other drug sites aren't, the other sites are to blame. SR is the biggest. DPR has the deepest pockets. It's obvious that they should go after SR.
Furthermore, bringing down ALL the sites doesn't take money out of anybody's pockets - it just delays all drug purchases. This method of attack insures that DPR will actually lose money because people will spend it elsewhere.
This is the most free of the free markets, and faulting people for spending money to get their fix on a site of their choosing is childish. We don't owe DPR anything - this is a business, and a very financially successful one at that. If he wants more of your money, he'll find solutions to the attacks and things will continue as normal.
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Keep up the good work. You're doing things no one has ever done before. I don't really understand why someone would attack us....IMO, we're all on the same team... Us vs the Man.
They should ddos the DEA, DOJ and FBI... not us!
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Hello Everybody,
We are working on SR for longer than a year now and the site went down for 5-7days a few months ago and came back up and running even better then before.
Everybody wants SR to run smooth both buyers and sellers and therefor we have to give the whole Sr staff the time that they need to secure and renew the site whenever necessary.
Keep in mind that they are also losing money every day that SR is offline and people cant access there accounts, so they will do everything in there power and even beyond that to get SR up and running again ASAP.
i don't have a good view on the other markets that are operating but my advice to everybody that's been messaging me about going to other markets is to wait until SR is back up and have faith in the community.
Because going to a different market will not mean that it will not have the same problems. (The Grass Looks Always Greener At The Neighbors)
There is a holiday at the moment in Holland so not one vendor from NL can ship packages today.
The BTC price is fluctuating strong at the moment and is very vulnerable.
Some people are loosing money the same hour that they bought Btc and others are making profit.
For all the people that lost a lot of money in the last few days or weeks, there is going to be a compensating in the form of discount on most of our listings for at least 2 weeks so that everybody can smile again.
When SR is online there will be more info about the discounts.
Too all the SR members from USA and AU we will switch all of our listing from europion union to shipping worldwide in 1-2week give us some time to adjust a few things to operate successful thru the account c63amg because working with a second account and more people can cause a lot of headache. That's why we closed cls63amg and will operate worldwide thru c63amg in 1-2weeks so that we have everything in our own hands. There will be free samples shipped out when we our ready to ship worldwide to test the packages stealth and to let everybody sample our products.
Hoping that we informed everybody enough.
lets all pray and wait till SR is online again so that everything turns to normal again.
For all soccer lovers or people that just like to win something, there is a champions league game tonight between
Real Madrid - FSB Dortmund
The first person that can guess the final score correct will get a gift coupon of 100USD that they can exchange in our shop only.
Here is the link for the thread to put your final score:
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=153596.0
Type your winning score in the form as written below
for example: Real Madrid - FSB Dortmund 2-3
Be quick cause we will not accept scores after the first half of the match.
And the first person that got the score correct will get the coupon.
c63amg
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From my understanding Tor has always been at risk of DoS'ing of hidden services as its impossible to determine legitimate traffic from from malicious due to the anonymous nature of Tor.
The ultimate solution would be to install more hardware and entry points to meet the increased demand for bandwidth and server power, however if it's a DDoS attack from a botnet, its unlikely that would help as no amount of bandwidth will cut it.
If it is a DDoS, which seems the most likely, the perpetrators won't be able to keep it up forever. Paying for use of a botnet isn't exactly cheap.
Another solution, which DPR mentioned is using multiple urls, this seems like the best option to me. Rotate new urls repeatedly and the botnet won't keep up. The difficulty is issuing those urls to users, I'm sure there's a solution there somewhere but it needs some thinking outside the box.
Yeah I was just thinking how hard it must be to troubleshoot this when you have a ton of users trying to get on.
Everyone should probably check the forums instead of loading SR every few seconds. Someone will eventually say "I GOT IN!"...everyone who saw that and thought I got in I apologize I have not, it was just an example...dont hate me lol
I want to be that person
I kept trying and did eventually get through, but SR is in maintenance mode and you will see an error page instead of a login.
Keep up the good work DPR, you'll get there in the end.
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Tormail has been down for a bit now too... just as I was able to get in touch with a couple customers.
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I kept trying and did eventually get through, but SR is in maintenance mode and you will see an error page instead of a login.
Keep up the good work DPR, you'll get there in the end.
Good info, last time I was able to see anything was like 36 hours ago, I got the login page and was able to login but it went down again a few minutes later. DPR will do it!
Times like these I wish I could just freakin snap my fingers and make shit happen...magic baby yeah
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I don't know you and haven't dealt with you, but I have heard good things about you. I'll throw something nice your way to help you out as I've been in a similar situation myself and got helped by someone (not SR related) - but what goes round comes round. It's important we all stick together and fight for SR 8)
maybe spot ya 25 bucks too mate if it helps :)
You guys are the best!
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Anything helps, and I will not forget your generosity! I will refund all money ASAP and send out free goodies to anyone who wants them for helping! Please help me stay afloat guys! :D
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Can't wait for another update. I was really hoping to get some order in before the weekend :(. Best wishes DPR!
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I've been silent on the forums for months because I had nothing of note to say. I still felt that way until I saw people opening saying they were giving ANY business to BMR. Every penny you addicts sent through that insecure shithole is just helping to pay for the continuing attack on SR.
BMR isn't under attack right now. Why? They either paid the extortionist or they're involved in the entire ordeal. It's like a giant red flag when the less secure site is the one having no problems at all. Anyone else notice that BMR just happened to have the capacity to handle the influx of SR people in place when the attack went down? They sure as hell didn't have that extra capacity as recently as three weeks ago.
So go ahead and send your ducats cash to those dicks. Your funding the death of SR in doing so.
SR's been down now for 2 days.. Calm your shit. It takes time for people to lose trust, move funds, and get things in order.. SR will survive this storm and we will continue to be a force to be reckoned with.
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i will not be going to BMR, UNLESS it get to close to time for sasquatch, i refuse to buy my shit there
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WE STAY AT SR! WE WILL NOT MOVE TO ANY OTHER ONLINE BLACK MARKET!
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WE STAY AT SR! WE WILL NOT MOVE TO ANY OTHER ONLINE BLACK MARKET!
Same.
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WE STAY AT SR! WE WILL NOT MOVE TO ANY OTHER ONLINE BLACK MARKET!
YESSSSS
Rule number 1 8)
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I wouldn't be surprised if this is attack is the work of a person that got shafted by a vendor on the road. People get crazy when shit like that happens.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this is attack is the work of a person that got shafted by a vendor on the road. People get crazy when shit like that happens.
That nutter that sent about $15k to some Asian guys by Western Union and then blamed Pill Popperz for it and spazzed out all over the forum springs to mind.
However, they are clearly too stupid to execute an attack like this. They couldn't even get to grips that sending a random person a large sum of money by Western Union wasn't a good idea!!
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Any word on when this will be fixed?
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DPR and Staff - Thanks for all your time and effort in doing what you can to get the road back up and running and taking care of the problem. Sounds like a pretty wicked attack but I have faith you and your staff will get it all sorted out and back to normal..
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i wonder if funds will be released to emergency bitcoin addresses, or what will happen with finalization. ill probably receive a shipment tomorrow.
Autofinalize has been disabled, and finalization in general as well since no one can access the site.
Are you sure? Last time SR was down a few days I had an order auto-finazlize. I am worried my buyer stats will be fucked up by this crash. I really do pay when I can get to the site.
Yes, I'm sure because DPR posted that in one of his updates.
hahah
WHAT SCOUT MEANS is he knows absolutely fuck all
Um, no, the person asked about autofinalize and I repeated that yes, I was sure that was the case because Dread Pirate Roberts himself announced he was disabling autofinalize while the site is down.
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Any word on when this will be fixed?
check out the OP
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+one Hug @ scout :P
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So SR went down last November because of an attack? I wasn't here as much then.
Was anyone around for the 2012 November outage? How long did that last I wonder?
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So SR went down last November because of an attack? I wasn't here as much then.
Was anyone around for the 2012 November outage? How long did that last I wonder?
About a week if I remember correctly
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Yes, most of us were here for the 2012 November outage. I can't recall how long it lasted, but I want to say it's was longer than this.
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I remember them well. But at least then we could get on every once in awhile.
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Yes, most of us were here for the 2012 November outage. I can't recall how long it lasted, but I want to say it's was longer than this.
It was close to a week of no access, I believe. That was brutal -_-. Much longer than this. I got on like 28 hours ago for a few minutes and got lucky enough to get all orders out for customers then.
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It was about a week..longer than this time round so far. There were no updates from DPR or admins for a while at first last time and everybody started going apeshit with conspiracy theories an what not haha how we laughed when the site came back up
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Stay strong everyone, the spice will flow once more.
I am trying to decide if I should ship out these orders that I have ready to go; my fear is that a customer might CANCEL their order between now and whenever I can get back online to 'mark as shipped'. Oh what is a wizard to do?!
Stay positive people, go outside, drink some water, talk to your loved ones! (Because it looks like people have hit refresh on this page about 40,000 times...)
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Wow, at least we have the forums to keep us busy.
Anyone want to start singing Aretha?
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At this point--no one should be hitting refresh or trying to get to SR more than 2 or 3 times a day. It's clear that the DDoS attack is ongoing and with hundreds (or thousands) of users pinging the site continuously the problem is only compounding.
Working around this issue takes time. If the admins had a solution up their sleeve, we wouldn't have any downtime. But be patient and be realistic--DPR 'n 'em aren't just going to throw the towel in and end SR forever. Come on.
Relax and wait it out (unless you are getting dopesick, in which case, just wait it out :-/ )
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OP Updated
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Thanks for the heads up, DPR. We are all praying you and yours get this resolved ASAP! <3
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Very happy to hear that you guys haven't given up on keeping the public site going
Thanks for your devotion and hard work, I hope our collective gratitude and appreciation can help alleviate some of your stress and frustration during this event.
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Thanks DPR...I wish I could do more to help than sit on my ass but rest assured if I gain access to any sort of magical power I will use it to end this before ya know fufiling everyone of my other fantasies...
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thanks for the update, good to know you are working on a solution. Though this update sounds more fatal to me. Things are so serious? i really hope this is not the end of SR, and in one way or another we will be able to browse to that paradise market again.
it would be good to have more info such as the maximum deadline you "think" until having SR running, but as always its good just to hear any words from you DPR
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remember everyone just because someone has same username on BMR or atlanis dose not mean there the same as on SR. i got my username for atlanis but not for BMR so if you see someone selling under godofall on BMR it not me.
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thanks for the update...
hang in there we're with ya DPR :)
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I'd be interested to see what form a "non-public" market would take - would we be talking invite-only or something of the sort? I'm sure people would get invites one way or another.
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DPR said at least a few days and that was only like 20 hours ago..so I dunno if thats how long they wait before doing the private url thing or what...
I imagine they are trying everything possible before conceding in that way... I wouldn't mind private access now muahah
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last year the outage was for about a week. i recall DPR giving access to vendors for a few days so all vendors could sort things out, i wish he would do that right now! until then we wait.......we have a fair amount tied up in escrow but i can only imagine the bigtime vendors... if i had 20k$ in escrow i would be concerned
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Thanks DPR !
Briliant so far no doubt you will figure this out! :)
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Um, no, the person asked about autofinalize and I repeated that yes, I was sure that was the case because Dread Pirate Roberts himself announced he was disabling autofinalize while the site is down.
I'm sorry Scout, this person is just being super rude. I think the implication they made was that you don't have any more knowledge, insight, or access than any of us and that you were just reaffirming what DPR said. He meant that as a negative and derogatory statement directed at you.
Regardless, That kind of rude-ness is unnecessary and I DO appreciate you calming and reassuring the members. +1 to you good sir. :D
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Um, no, the person asked about autofinalize and I repeated that yes, I was sure that was the case because Dread Pirate Roberts himself announced he was disabling autofinalize while the site is down.
I'm sorry Scout, this person is just being super rude. I think the implication they made was that you don't have any more knowledge, insight, or access than any of us and that you were just reaffirming what DPR said. He meant that as a negative and derogatory statement directed at you.
Regardless, That kind of rude-ness is unnecessary and I DO appreciate you calming and reassuring the members. +1 to you good sir. :D
Haha, yes, I understood that he was taking some frustration out on me and being rude. It's okay because I know some people are upset, frustrated, and angry right now. It's true that I don't know anything more than the rest of you guys about the current situation, but I also know that the lack of details is a necessary thing in this case.
Everything will be okay though, so I'm not worried. :)
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Yeah buckle up kids, people are going to start getting mighty fickle here...
Are there are only 2 moderators on here? Scout and thesamebutdifferent? You guys do good work but there are like over 50k users on here no?
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holy fuck once again, hope you can make it guys, in dpr we trust.
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Yeah buckle up kids, people are going to start getting mighty fickle here...
Are there are only 2 moderators on here? Scout and thesamebutdifferent? You guys do good work but there are like over 50k users on here no?
We've been doing this for months with just the two of us as moderators. With the help of the rest of the community, I'd say we've done well keeping things on the forums from bursting into flames or becoming a giant hat of tinfoil. :D Everything will be okay. The site has been down before with problems, and will be down again - it's the nature of these uncharted waters!
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Yeah buckle up kids, people are going to start getting mighty fickle here...
Are there are only 2 moderators on here? Scout and thesamebutdifferent? You guys do good work but there are like over 50k users on here no?
Have seen it all before before so am preparing for a bumpy ride ;)
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I have no doubt! you two rock
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Yeah buckle up kids, people are going to start getting mighty fickle here...
Are there are only 2 moderators on here? Scout and thesamebutdifferent? You guys do good work but there are like over 50k users on here no?
We've been doing this for months with just the two of us as moderators. With the help of the rest of the community, I'd say we've done well keeping things on the forums from bursting into flames or becoming a giant hat of tinfoil. :D Everything will be okay. The site has been down before with problems, and will be down again - it's the nature of these uncharted waters!
thanks scout for being so reassuring
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BMR has a certification process to verify if the same username vendor is the same on BMR and SR by sending a PM via BMR, they then send another PM with code via SR and you get certified on BMR with a mark on your user name in your profile at BMR.
This of course, means that BMR has been working in concert with Silk Road to verify that vendors who say they are the same, actually are the same. I did this, and you can see my verification icon at BMR, link in sig
They are doing this now because many vendors who got banned became a vendor under another name of a vendor who was still legit here. So basically both BMR and SR teamed up to help cut down on fraud
I started out at BMR because I could not afford to become a vendor here until another vendor lent me 5BTC so I could come here. I paid him back in 10 days flat after coming here. There maybe have been and maybe still are scammers at BMR, but they have been banning vendors over there, but it's also a very tiny traffic site compared with SR
But there are some who are on both site and have been verified using a special SR account set up for this. It also means it's highly unlikely the attacks are coming from people at BMR since they have already been working together in at least this small way
Apparently this is not widely known, although there are threads at BMR about it. You can see the little green camel underneath my profile icon at BMR here
http://5onwnspjvuk7cwvk.onion/index.php?p=viewUser&id=166446
Here is the announcement of this feature on BMR forums
http://fec33nz6mhzd54zj.onion/viewtopic.php?id=2785
remember everyone just because someone has same username on BMR or atlanis dose not mean there the same as on SR. i got my username for atlanis but not for BMR so if you see someone selling under godofall on BMR it not me.
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Yes... It is a very frustrating time. But thanks to the knowledge of DPR and staff, I can be reasonably assured that everything will be OK! And Scout and Samebutdifferent are definetely 2 great Mods and have shared a lot of knowledge with the community as a whole on these forums. Great work guys!!! And hopefully the site will be up and running very soon, or the alternate route takes place... either way, it will be A-OK.
I do wish there was a way to communicate with the vendors that dont go on here, I have been trying to find a couple of vendors on here, and have had no luck. (At least for people w/ pendings)
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Just wishing DPR and his team all the best!!!
Keep going guys - you'll win in the end!
;D
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I hope the site gets back up again soon
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just want to add my words of encouragement SR team, keep up the good fight. we've seen you do battle before and know you'll emerge victorious.
-to a speedy resolution!
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Toasting some dabs to show some respect for all the behind-the-scenes hard work!
Hoping for a speedy resolve!
To DPR, the whole staff, all the vendors & buys, and the forum community!
Let us look forward unto improved accessibility, and better resiliency to these type things.
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We've been doing this for months with just the two of us as moderators. With the help of the rest of the community, I'd say we've done well keeping things on the forums from bursting into flames or becoming a giant hat of tinfoil. :D Everything will be okay. The site has been down before with problems, and will be down again - it's the nature of these uncharted waters!
Have seen it all before before so am preparing for a bumpy ride ;)
scout and samesamebutdifferent are marvelous moderators, it's amazing how two individuals can achieve so much, I'd say you two are super human! Everyone have no fear SilkRoad will pull through this and will become stronger for it 'Through adversity comes greatness' Godspeed DPR and team my thoughts are with you all :)
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Good luck DPR, and thank you for the updates!
If anyone happens to have Marijuanaismymuse and Rails Tormail address', could you please share them with me? Thank you!
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So I spent last night padding my post count just to subscribe here.
Go team SR! Kick em where it hurts!
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I just want to give my thanks to DPR, scout, and the whole team that has/is made this whole thing possible. Realistically what you guys have managed to accomplish is historical and groundbreaking. I envy you guys for the change you have done to the world. And i have never met a nicer group of individuals then the SR community. I know my support means minimal in the grand scope, but you deserve acknowledgment of your accomplishment and a show of support from those who believe in the you and the foundation you've laid. We are behind for whatever you need to keep the movement progressing.
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Thank you guys for working hard, hope it all gets sorted before too long!
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Um, no, the person asked about autofinalize and I repeated that yes, I was sure that was the case because Dread Pirate Roberts himself announced he was disabling autofinalize while the site is down.
I'm sorry Scout, this person is just being super rude. I think the implication they made was that you don't have any more knowledge, insight, or access than any of us and that you were just reaffirming what DPR said. He meant that as a negative and derogatory statement directed at you.
Regardless, That kind of rude-ness is unnecessary and I DO appreciate you calming and reassuring the members. +1 to you good sir. :D
Haha, yes, I understood that he was taking some frustration out on me and being rude. It's okay because I know some people are upset, frustrated, and angry right now. It's true that I don't know anything more than the rest of you guys about the current situation, but I also know that the lack of details is a necessary thing in this case.
Everything will be okay though, so I'm not worried. :)
thanks for confirming what I already knew.
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Is the site still 100% inaccessible or does it allow u in intermittently?
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http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/closed :-\ ???
why is it redirecting to /closed
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I understand the frustration to work like crazy on this but I have to say that attacks like these are pushing SR security in the right direction (I hope).. I understand that many are on their watch as they are living on the border without water, toilets and grocery stores..
There's only one possible profession for someone living out there in the frigging dessert... And thats: super fucked psycho or meth cook.
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http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/closed :-\ ???
why is it redirecting to /closed
That's what it has done before when it is down. It doesn't mean anything more than that (or at least hasn't in the past).
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I posted this as it's own topic but I'd be interested on some more feedback
I know some of us have the emails to vendors we've worked with for a while but what if the forums go down again with the road? Twas a pretty dark time earlier. As well, a lot of the vendors utilize tormail for their non SR communication and it seems over the last month that tormail has become increasing spotty in service, with it going back down today.
Thought/ ideas anybody?
I think more people should move to a clearnet email account entirely created and only accessed through tor, that mixed with PGP seems, to my limited knowledge, a decent way of anonymous and reliable communication.
I really wish and hope that either vendors will come together or someone will make a thread similar to the PGP public key one with vendor info on it while the forums are still up.
If the forums go down again, the majority of us on here are fucked and will be completely out of the loop.
This community is something we've all worked too hard for and it is unreasonable to tie our existence as a community, revolution, and idea simply to two .onion sites.
We need back up, we need other solutions, and we need them now.
We're (collectively) an intelligent bunch, we should be able to think of something.
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Damn. Damn Damn Damn. This sucks big donkey balls. I'd offer to help, but DPR wouldnt know if I'm FBI, Interpol, or some nutjob hack.
I think someone's trying to screw with the bitcoin market; get the price low and buy a bunch then sell when the sites back on and there's a spike in the price. That's what market manipulAtor would do.
All that said...back to Damn, Damn, Damn.
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how are they attacking?
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Wish we could pull our resources together and help somehow.
Long live the SR fighters!
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Damn. Damn Damn Damn. This sucks big donkey balls. I'd offer to help, but DPR wouldnt know if I'm FBI, Interpol, or some nutjob hack.
I think someone's trying to screw with the bitcoin market; get the price low and buy a bunch then sell when the sites back on and there's a spike in the price. That's what market manipulAtor would do.
All that said...back to Damn, Damn, Damn.
Price hasn't budged and highly doubt SR being down would affect it much. It hasn't much in the past...
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Damn. Damn Damn Damn. This sucks big donkey balls. I'd offer to help, but DPR wouldnt know if I'm FBI, Interpol, or some nutjob hack.
I think someone's trying to screw with the bitcoin market; get the price low and buy a bunch then sell when the sites back on and there's a spike in the price. That's what market manipulAtor would do.
All that said...back to Damn, Damn, Damn.
Price hasn't budged and highly doubt SR being down would affect it much. It hasn't much in the past...
Agreed, if you've been watching coins, the down time hasn't had any effect on the price. Has been rising and falling. If anything, the price would rise since no one is spending their coins, but SR is simply too small of a share of the bitcoin market
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Maybe it's time DPR breaks out the checkbook to buy a secret lair on a private island with super computers and such...Joking aside, it seems like the financial success of SR would drastically change the way DPR operates and maintain better access.
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Maybe it's time DPR breaks out the checkbook to buy a secret lair on a private island with super computers and such...Joking aside, it seems like the financial success of SR would drastically change the way DPR operates and maintain better access.
How do you know he doesn't already have one? ;)
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Best of luck fighting this attack. Fingers are crossed over here in my corner of the globe.
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Damn. Damn Damn Damn. This sucks big donkey balls. I'd offer to help, but DPR wouldnt know if I'm FBI, Interpol, or some nutjob hack.
I think someone's trying to screw with the bitcoin market; get the price low and buy a bunch then sell when the sites back on and there's a spike in the price. That's what market manipulAtor would do.
All that said...back to Damn, Damn, Damn.
Price hasn't budged and highly doubt SR being down would affect it much. It hasn't much in the past...
Agreed, if you've been watching coins, the down time hasn't had any effect on the price. Has been rising and falling. If anything, the price would rise since no one is spending their coins, but SR is simply too small of a share of the bitcoin market
SR is one of major drivers of bitcoin price..but market expects SR will overcome these challenges....also there are lot of other black markets popping up
BMR has a pretty stable platform
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Honestly, for the type of website and what it stands for, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. We have to accept SR is great, but hated by many organizations. We shouldn't be shocked when its attacked. Its not like it has Government backing it.. lol I'm sure it will be back soon. Users should take this time off as a detox period, your next hit will feel 10 times stronger.. :) I don't see anyway to prevent this other then multiple back up servers.
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Damn. Damn Damn Damn. This sucks big donkey balls. I'd offer to help, but DPR wouldnt know if I'm FBI, Interpol, or some nutjob hack.
I think someone's trying to screw with the bitcoin market; get the price low and buy a bunch then sell when the sites back on and there's a spike in the price. That's what market manipulAtor would do.
All that said...back to Damn, Damn, Damn.
Price hasn't budged and highly doubt SR being down would affect it much. It hasn't much in the past...
Agreed, if you've been watching coins, the down time hasn't had any effect on the price. Has been rising and falling. If anything, the price would rise since no one is spending their coins, but SR is simply too small of a share of the bitcoin market
SR is one of major drivers of bitcoin price..but market expects SR will overcome these challenges....also there are lot of other black markets popping up
BMR has a pretty stable platform
I would have to disagree. There are plenty of investors unloading money into bitcoins with much fatter wallets than the average SR user. Also, there are plenty of people who are not even buying bitcoin but are mining it, and ultimately selling(to mt gox, campbx, or any other non drug affiliated sites with interests only in trading/buying/selling coin) and/or holding it for when the price inevitably raises again.. SR is but a small portion of the bitcoin market..
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Who else is checking the op every ten minutes?
Chaos
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I have been a long time fan of SR, and honestly I plan to stick around but when is enough, enough. I am 100% with DPR and him fixing this, but for some reason this time it just seems like they cannot get a grip on it. I mean we have experienced many outages, and bad site availability and we have all put up with it.... DPR is such a smart dude, I just dont understand why he cant put a block on this. I am no tech wiz, but I know many of us have thousands and thousands at risk here. I hope at least if they shut down we can get our coinage back and such. I am rooting for you, but I also think there are somethings you are not telling us... Please just be honest to all of us who have been faithful to you, and have put a great deal of money in your pocket. I mean the loses from this could be in the millions. I dont know, sorry for venting and I dont mean to complain. All I want to see is the site back up and this hacking crap done with. I mean if they have been able to stay open this long, then why didnt anyone do this before, could it be an exit strategy for the company? I dont know, and its not likely I just think this is the worst we have seen in a long time and it bothers me now that this Atlantis site just pops up and now vendors and buyers are going to this site to do business. I mean, is it a coincidence, someone has to to atleast look into this. Best of luck DPR and if you happen to read this, maybe you can explain to us what the worst case scenario is. Most business people have to plan for the worst and hope for the best. Has everything been saved to where you can roll back the server to know who had what money in what account. I dont know, just thinking...
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Who else is checking the op every ten minutes?
Chaos
:P every ~20 minutes
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Who else is checking the op every ten minutes?
Chaos
:P every ~20 minutes
Haha, yup. Hoping for at least one more update before I hit the hay :P
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Damn. Damn Damn Damn. This sucks big donkey balls. I'd offer to help, but DPR wouldnt know if I'm FBI, Interpol, or some nutjob hack.
I think someone's trying to screw with the bitcoin market; get the price low and buy a bunch then sell when the sites back on and there's a spike in the price. That's what market manipulAtor would do.
All that said...back to Damn, Damn, Damn.
Price hasn't budged and highly doubt SR being down would affect it much. It hasn't much in the past...
Agreed, if you've been watching coins, the down time hasn't had any effect on the price. Has been rising and falling. If anything, the price would rise since no one is spending their coins, but SR is simply too small of a share of the bitcoin market
SR is one of major drivers of bitcoin price..but market expects SR will overcome these challenges....also there are lot of other black markets popping up
BMR has a pretty stable platform
I would have to disagree. There are plenty of investors unloading money into bitcoins with much fatter wallets than the average SR user. Also, there are plenty of people who are not even buying bitcoin but are mining it, and ultimately selling(to mt gox, campbx, or any other non drug affiliated sites with interests only in trading/buying/selling coin) and/or holding it for when the price inevitably raises again.. SR is but a small portion of the bitcoin market..
Exactly, SR does a lot of business no doubt, but it the grand scheme of things it really is a relatively small portion
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Who else is checking the op every ten minutes?
Chaos
:P every ~20 minutes
Haha, yup. Hoping for at least one more update before I hit the hay :P
Just about. :'(
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Question:
With the site being down, do my "x days to auto-finalize" keep counting down? or since access is limited, is a pause put on this counter so people don't auto-finalize during this period.
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UPDATE (04/30/2013 2022 UTC): Still working on a solution. I haven't given up hope that we will be able to go forward as a public market without limiting access. We are putting all of our efforts into making that a reality. If that changes, I will let you know here
I hope I make the cut :-\
PRIVATE MARKET :o
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Question:
With the site being down, do my "x days to auto-finalize" keep counting down? or since access is limited, is a pause put on this counter so people don't auto-finalize during this period.
Not sure how else I can say this: DPR disabled autofinalize while the site is down.
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Question:
With the site being down, do my "x days to auto-finalize" keep counting down? or since access is limited, is a pause put on this counter so people don't auto-finalize during this period.
auto-finalizing has been disabled..
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I don't see why they just don't spend a few bucks and flood the goddamn darknet with 1000's of independent servers and sites all leading to the same backend? There are other companies that mirror sites all over the place, many go up, some go down, some are maintained. etc. but they are synced together and at least one is up at all times.
Patience, patience, they got it covered., lol
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Question:
With the site being down, do my "x days to auto-finalize" keep counting down? or since access is limited, is a pause put on this counter so people don't auto-finalize during this period.
Not sure how else I can say this: DPR disabled autofinalize while the site is down.
Hey scout just curious, if SR becomes a site with limited access, how will they decide who makes the cut and how will they contact this person to let them know? I am a vendor that deals with heavy traffic on a weekly basis so I assume I would make the cut, but how would he get in contact with me?
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I haven't given up hope that we will be able to go forward as a public market without limiting access...
If that changes, I will let you know here.
this strikes me as less than optimistic... :(
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Interesting new error message on site:
The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.
Guess DPR changed something.
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Question:
With the site being down, do my "x days to auto-finalize" keep counting down? or since access is limited, is a pause put on this counter so people don't auto-finalize during this period.
Not sure how else I can say this: DPR disabled autofinalize while the site is down.
Hey scout just curious, if SR becomes a site with limited access, how will they decide who makes the cut and how will they contact this person to let them know? I am a vendor that deals with heavy traffic on a weekly basis so I assume I would make the cut, but how would he get in contact with me?
I have no idea what the back up plan is. We're all in the same boat waiting for DPR's next forum update.
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i better hurry up and educate myself on how to transfer bitcoins to sr wallet before every tutorial potentially gets washed away
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I don't think tutorials are going anywhere but it never hurts to do research. .
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I have been a long time fan of SR, and honestly I plan to stick around but when is enough, enough. I am 100% with DPR and him fixing this, but for some reason this time it just seems like they cannot get a grip on it. I mean we have experienced many outages, and bad site availability and we have all put up with it.... DPR is such a smart dude, I just dont understand why he cant put a block on this. I am no tech wiz, but I know many of us have thousands and thousands at risk here. I hope at least if they shut down we can get our coinage back and such. I am rooting for you, but I also think there are somethings you are not telling us... Please just be honest to all of us who have been faithful to you, and have put a great deal of money in your pocket. I mean the loses from this could be in the millions. I dont know, sorry for venting and I dont mean to complain. All I want to see is the site back up and this hacking crap done with. I mean if they have been able to stay open this long, then why didnt anyone do this before, could it be an exit strategy for the company? I dont know, and its not likely I just think this is the worst we have seen in a long time and it bothers me now that this Atlantis site just pops up and now vendors and buyers are going to this site to do business. I mean, is it a coincidence, someone has to to atleast look into this. Best of luck DPR and if you happen to read this, maybe you can explain to us what the worst case scenario is. Most business people have to plan for the worst and hope for the best. Has everything been saved to where you can roll back the server to know who had what money in what account. I dont know, just thinking...
Have you considered that this attack isn't just against Silk Road but against the very nature of TOR Hidden Services? Changes to the TOR code are probably required in order to defeat this attack. Keep in mind changing the code could have security implications for Silk Road and DPR.
Why hasn't this attack been utilized in the past by an attacker? Maybe The TOR Project made a mistake by publicly describing some of the faults with Hidden Services last week in their blog. Perhaps the attacker only learned of these vulnerabilities recently.
From the blog
One of the main problems with a busy Hidden Service is that its Introduction Points will get hammered by clients. Since Introduction Points are regular Tor relays, they are not intended to handle such load.
The adversarial version of the previous section involves attackers intentionally hammering the Introduction Points of a Hidden Service to make it unreachable by honest clients. This means that an attacker can temporarily bring down a Hidden Service by DoSing a small number of Tor relays
So is Silk Road technically under attack or is the TOR network actually under attack?
And I think the worst case scenario has been expressed already by DPR:
we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs
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THANKS DPR!!!! Keep up your good work, and no matter what. You have been a AWESOME blessing!!!!
SR FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I have been a long time fan of SR, and honestly I plan to stick around but when is enough, enough. I am 100% with DPR and him fixing this, but for some reason this time it just seems like they cannot get a grip on it. I mean we have experienced many outages, and bad site availability and we have all put up with it.... DPR is such a smart dude, I just dont understand why he cant put a block on this. I am no tech wiz, but I know many of us have thousands and thousands at risk here. I hope at least if they shut down we can get our coinage back and such. I am rooting for you, but I also think there are somethings you are not telling us... Please just be honest to all of us who have been faithful to you, and have put a great deal of money in your pocket. I mean the loses from this could be in the millions. I dont know, sorry for venting and I dont mean to complain. All I want to see is the site back up and this hacking crap done with. I mean if they have been able to stay open this long, then why didnt anyone do this before, could it be an exit strategy for the company? I dont know, and its not likely I just think this is the worst we have seen in a long time and it bothers me now that this Atlantis site just pops up and now vendors and buyers are going to this site to do business. I mean, is it a coincidence, someone has to to atleast look into this. Best of luck DPR and if you happen to read this, maybe you can explain to us what the worst case scenario is. Most business people have to plan for the worst and hope for the best. Has everything been saved to where you can roll back the server to know who had what money in what account. I dont know, just thinking...
Have you considered that this attack isn't just against Silk Road but against the very nature of TOR Hidden Services? Changes to the TOR code are probably required in order to defeat this attack. Keep in mind changing the code could have security implications for Silk Road and DPR.
Why hasn't this attack been utilized in the past by an attacker? Maybe The TOR Project made a mistake by publicly describing some of the faults with Hidden Services last week in their blog. Perhaps the attacker only learned of these vulnerabilities recently.
From the blog
One of the main problems with a busy Hidden Service is that its Introduction Points will get hammered by clients. Since Introduction Points are regular Tor relays, they are not intended to handle such load.
The adversarial version of the previous section involves attackers intentionally hammering the Introduction Points of a Hidden Service to make it unreachable by honest clients. This means that an attacker can temporarily bring down a Hidden Service by DoSing a small number of Tor relays
So is Silk Road technically under attack or is the TOR network actually under attack?
And I think the worst case scenario has been expressed already by DPR:
we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs
+1 for this. Right on point.
I daresay that SR is one of the bigger more lucrative hidden services on tor so it would make sense that they would be the first to fell the brunt of potential TOR vulnerabilities. This is also supported by DPR's statement so it would make sense.
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Think the idea of "semi-private" access mean there will be many changing address for access, don think they mean anything about only allow some people on. :o
but like everybody we only wait and see :) GET EM DPR!
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:) :) :) :) :)
maintenance page
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I cant wit until i see that login screen!
long live SR!
Im behind DPR all the way:)
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This whole event is tragic.
It is clear it has been a well calculated attack and our unhappiness is the end result.
Whats clear, as of right now, the site will be down for a few more days.
I'm concerned about how the restructuring may occur, I mean how will existing members be notified of how to connect.. ugh, too much on my mind.
Le sigh
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FYI customers... I was able to get all orders out the end of last week before this DDoS attack started except for one. This was a custom order so if that isn't you, your stuff went out and likely should have arrived by now. Custom order guy, sorry man I never got your info out of SR before the attack started. Order will ship as soon as I can get back in.
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yay we got an official SR page with maintenance on it. This has been the best indication so far that the road will not be closed indefinitely!
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Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion.
goddam shit...
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back in business baby
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OP updated
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Just got the login!! DPR has fought back. All hail.
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DPR you're the man! 8) Just refreshed the page randomly, not expecting to see such an awesome update. I will sleep very well tonight. Fuck the attacker(s), keep up the good work SR crew and mods!
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OP updated
i love you!!
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Everythings back to normal. Thanks and congratulations DPR and team!!!!!!!!!
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WWWHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! ;D. Were back in business
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:) :) great work DPR an staff..
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sadly i keep timing out when i try to load the page
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keep at it, was doing the same for me
sadly i keep timing out when i try to load the page
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OP update
Seconds after login I found myself back at http://deaseizedsites.com/?PHPSESSID=1sia1tegdcvv7m44hn11hiaa73
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still having a little trouble navigating the site but i'm in as well.
Thank you DPR and your team!!!
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The site is open and accessible however it is not fully functional, messages can't be sent, orders can't be marked as confirm and can't update listings. It keep saying "Error" :-\
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Great job DPR
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:-[ 3 orders canceled ffs
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Holy crap! I thought it was never gonna get back up! Here's to hoping it stay open.
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its beautiful
thanks dpr
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We still can't get on :( We've tried about 20times now xD Anyone in the UK got on yet?
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UPDATE (05/01/2013 0238 UTC): Silk Road is open and accessible. As soon as the attacker finds out, he will likely change his tactics and try to take the site down again. Hopefully he won't be able to, but time will tell.
As always, thanks DPR. We all love you and admire your dedication.
Hopefully you can get multiple URLs up so the attacker has a more difficult time, if that is feasible / sensible. But in any case, thanks again.
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We still can't get on :( We've tried about 20times now xD Anyone in the UK got on yet?
Nope, not yet. Sucks, sprouty needs greenery.
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UPDATE (05/01/2013 0238 UTC): Silk Road is open and accessible. As soon as the attacker finds out, he will likely change his tactics and try to take the site down again. Hopefully he won't be able to, but time will tell.
Stay strong!
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Anybody else think it's more than coincidence that the Bitcoin market begins to tank the moment DPR updated the status? This has been Litecoin's doing all along.
I never have a problem with access in normal conditions, but I still can't connect.
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We love you, DPR! Nice job indeed.
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DPR for PRESIDENT! Well done, gents. Strike one for the home team.
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Been trying for the past 10 mins and nothing but timeout errors.
Fucken hell.
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Took me a ton of refreshes, a tor browser restart, and kicking everyone off the freaking internet for a bit but I got in!
That is one sexy login page, never change it, thanks DPR! woo
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Still won't connect for me, I'll keep trying I guess.
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Still down here!
Keep up the fight!
EDIT: Ok I'm in ;)
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Yay im in..nay whatever change i had decresed in the last week... :) :(
Does anyone feel like shouting this from the top of their voice or can picture DPR at the front screaming at the fuckwits behind this DoS whilst the rest of us stand behind him ready to charge..
“They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!”
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The first in 48 hours I have even seen the log in page, let alone actually log in.
The sheer patience and knowledge that it takes too achieve such things. Is mind blowing. We are part of something much bigger than just, being able to buy a "drug".
I do not know shit, however. I know that had to been one hell of an epic battle. We all are privileged to be part of this, even on the most miniscule scale. If you are not appreciative of the efforts, you have no business here.
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So you can login, but you cannot do anything on the site.... Either the attacker has got it down again or DPR just made it so we could login to show progress, but I cannot do anything once I am in.
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got in for few minutes worked fine. now I cant get in silkroad
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seems to be still down for me. ill keep trying though! :)
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Whoever is behind this attack is an enemy of the people. Long Live SR! Serve the People.
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the attacker is back and this time he looks stronger!
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:( cannot connect again, I hope this is just me.
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it looks like they are trying to catch this person i guess they threw a net out
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It's functional with a lot of timing out though.
Coins can be withdrawn.
Messages cannot be sent.
Reviews can be left.
Keep up admins! You're absolutely professional.
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DPR is my new hero, you got a great community of people here to support you
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It's either under attack again or the effects of 10000 SR users all trying to sign in at once has killed the server :P
Just saw the login page, but timed out on login.
If you tweak the timeout settings in TOR to give it a bit more time then it works a bit better, still nightmarishly slow but it lives!
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im revieving timeouts too.
am i suppose to be using one of the backup Url's?
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under attack again
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under attack again
this is a fucking nightmare :(
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OP update
Seconds after login I found myself back at http://deaseizedsites.com/?PHPSESSID=1sia1tegdcvv7m44hn11hiaa73
sorry but what the hell is this link you have posted in this message???
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Working fairly well for me. I'm able to send messages and updated my backup address, now just waiting to cancel this order...
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I don't know about yall but i'm cruising on silk road
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Working fairly well for me. I'm able to send messages and updated my backup address, now just waiting to cancel this order...
you lucky duck you!
still timing out on my end
Go DPR! you da mannnnn!
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i know times out for me too..... ah well they are really working him tho!
DPR will prevail!!
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This shit is so sad, Who would want to take SR down besides the LE & some butt hurt addict who got f'd over & feels entitled ?? this is a str8 joke & I wish the team all the best at putting this to a stop & getting this person caught / hung & drained of body fluids.
Hopefully the long-arm of the deep web reaches out and touches this guy on his shoulder & says,
" we have found you " then lets see how much he wants too act like a hero & hack this site.
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got a shit load of decimal places on my account that weren't there before, odd?
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YOU ARE THE MAN DPR!!!!
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i know times out for me too..... ah well they are really working him tho!
DPR will prevail!!
DPR always prevails,
Long live the road!!!!
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How do we change the timeout settings on tor?
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Anyone else notice the value of BTC has dropped by 10-20 bucks around the same time? Am i looking for a conspiracy or is just pure luck?
a big HMMMMMMMM
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Anyone else notice the value of BTC has dropped by 10-20 bucks around the same time? Am i looking for a conspiracy or is just pure luck?
a big HMMMMMMMM
im debating in my head if this is the perfect time to buy coins?
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back to timing out for me :(
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I don't know about yall but i'm cruising on silk road
Perhaps the strategy is to allow small handfuls of users to use SR at a time so that people can eventually get their BTC out? Kinda strange that some people are able to cruise while others cant even get a connection.
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Hang in there DPR and fellow SR's. Gonna take one hell of an attack to jam this cat back in the bag. What anyone could hope to achieve from this is beyond me...
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Go DPR GOOOO!!!! ;)
I won't access the site for at least a day or too so I won't clog it up.
I am excited for yall
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Anyone else notice the value of BTC has dropped by 10-20 bucks around the same time? Am i looking for a conspiracy or is just pure luck?
a big HMMMMMMMM
im debating in my head if this is the perfect time to buy coins?
See what happens when it approaches $120
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I am in now. SR works.
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2 of the vendors I purchased off of seem to have access so thank goodness! but i still cant get on :'(
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I am in now. SR works.
hmm, still not working for me ???
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I am in now. SR works.
hmm, still not working for me ???
same for me. i wonder if its because everyones trying to log in right now
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I am in now. SR works.
hmm, still not working for me ???
same for me. i wonder if its because everyones trying to log in right now
I was logged in, for a good while. however, now I'm getting the connection timed out.
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WOOOOT. I'm in... and SR is pretty fast right now too. I'm guessing because not everyone can get on :-\
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WOOOOT. I'm in... and SR is pretty fast right now too. I'm guessing because not everyone can get on :-\
haha awesome dude!!!
i cant wait until i can say the same
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I hope that the site will load soon seems some fo you are having good luck.. Maybe this will be the end of this nonsense :D
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I hope that the site will load soon seems some fo you are having good luck.. Maybe this will be the end of this nonsense :D
we can only hope:)
+1 for optimism
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FINALLY!!! I'm in after a ton of timeouts, you guys will get in. Great job DPR and staff! Fuck you cunt attacker! Now if my vendor would just log on......... :(
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Beautiful!
You're the best DPR!
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working for me now.
had to close TOR and connect to someone else (or maybe just coincidence)
as others said though lots of functionality limited, but yay good to see something is back :)
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AND IM IN!!!!!!!
FUCK YES DPR I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUU :-*
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;D ;D ;D :D
back to working, thank you :-*
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finally!!
thanks DPR 8)
love live SR!
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i jumped off now so i dont clogg up the server, looks to be running smoothly though!!!
DPR I could just kiss you right now
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If this is the work of competition instead of LE, well, then this is just anarcho-capitalism in effect (ironic).
You don't understand the principles anarcho-capitalism is founded on.
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Running like a well oiled machine!
Fuck yeah.
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Awesome Job DPR and team. Just Finalized and placed new orders. Sent messages.... ALL GOOD!
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Thanks DPR & team for your hard consistent work. Still trying to log in but hopefully soon. Cheers!!!
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diese scheiße ist Charlie Sheen!! PLANK EM! :-D
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Are we supposed to grab our BTC and run or business as usual?
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Are we supposed to grab our BTC and run or business as usual?
great question! cant wait to hear the answer
though id say they should be fine
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started from the bottom , now we here.
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i still cant login it just times out :(
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I also got in after a while refreshing and once ur in it goes fast indeed.
Unfortunately my btc aren't transfered to my SR adress yet so I can't make the goddamned order!!!!!!!!!!!!
always misfortune :( :D
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I have been in a browsing for about 25 minutes. Pulled out some coins and updated my backup address.
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i made it in! good job matey! Make those hackers walk the plank! ARGHHHHH! yo ho ho and a vial of acid!
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Yeah. I have been tring for nearly an hour ( I have an order I got a few days ago I need to finalize on) and still getting the Problem Loading page error..
Is everyone getting on using the VB5piz3r URL?I know I saw a thread at some point with some sort of back up URLs just wondering if everyone that has luck is on the normal site or not.
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UPDATE (05/01/2013 0238 UTC): Silk Road is open and accessible. As soon as the attacker finds out, he will likely change his tactics and try to take the site down again. Hopefully he won't be able to, but time will tell.
UPDATE (04/30/2013 2022 UTC): Still working on a solution. I haven't given up hope that we will be able to go forward as a public market without limiting access. We are putting all of our efforts into making that a reality. If that changes, I will let you know here.
UPDATE (04/30/2013 0035 UTC): We have come a long way in the battle, but still do not have the upper hand. It's looking more and more like a restructuring of the tor software or even the tor network will be required to mitigate the kind of attack we are under. If this can be solved by modifying the tor client software running the silk road .onion, then it will be a matter of patching and redeploying the hidden service. If it is a network issue, it will require the cooperation of the Tor developers, or running a new network of nodes. I haven't given up hope for a faster solution, but if one can not be found, then we will move to a semi private scheme where users will be given access through many private URLs. I'll keep everyone updated on how we will move forward, but please be prepared for a few more days at the least of no access.
UPDATE (04/29/2013 0715 UTC): Just want to let you all know I'm still here and we're still doing battle behind the scenes to get the forums and main site running again. It is incredibly discouraging to have everything we've worked so hard for taken down by some anonymous and malevolent person, but your kind words of encouragement do wonders for our moral. We are on the cutting edge of anonymity technology here. The attacks being used against us MUST be overcome if Silk Road and any anonymous public sites are to have a future. Thank you again for your patience with all of this, and pray that we make it through stronger than we started.
We are being attacked once more. This time the forums are under attack as well. Access is intermittent, so hopefully some of you can read this. We are doing everything possible to overcome this latest attack. Please be patient while we find a solution.
/bows humbly
excellent work dpr. thankyou.
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Yeah. I have been tring for nearly an hour ( I have an order I get a few days ago I need to finalize on) and still getting the Problem Loading page error..
Is everyone getting on using the BV5piz3r URL?I know I saw a thread at some point with some sort of back up URLs just wondering if everyone that has luck is on the normal site or not.
try reconnecting to tor network.. worked for me ;)
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should we be withdawing funds from the road?
EDIT: decided to keep them on the road seeing as its up and running pretty smooth
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this attacker honestly has no life
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Yeah. I have been tring for nearly an hour ( I have an order I get a few days ago I need to finalize on) and still getting the Problem Loading page error..
Is everyone getting on using the BV5piz3r URL?I know I saw a thread at some point with some sort of back up URLs just wondering if everyone that has luck is on the normal site or not.
try reconnecting to tor network.. worked for me ;)
I've done that twice thinking it might help.. Nope
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Anyone else notice the value of BTC has dropped by 10-20 bucks around the same time? Am i looking for a conspiracy or is just pure luck?
a big HMMMMMMMM
yeah you are looking for a conspiracy.
It has been hovering around these figures for over a week now.
Been keeping an eye on it for me coins so.. ;)
On topic:
In your FACE attacker.
SR-boner: check
Hooray DPR and everyone behind solving this problem.
You guys are my heroes!!
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Yeah. I have been tring for nearly an hour ( I have an order I got a few days ago I need to finalize on) and still getting the Problem Loading page error..
Is everyone getting on using the BV5piz3r URL?I know I saw a thread at some point with some sort of back up URLs just wondering if everyone that has luck is on the normal site or not.
vb5piz3r
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Looks like it's back up.
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Yeah. I have been tring for nearly an hour ( I have an order I got a few days ago I need to finalize on) and still getting the Problem Loading page error..
Is everyone getting on using the BV5piz3r URL?I know I saw a thread at some point with some sort of back up URLs just wondering if everyone that has luck is on the normal site or not.
vb5piz3r
Dyslexic moment when I typed that, VB is what I meant.. but ti did load a moment ago! YIPPY
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thanks DPR and crews :)
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Um I wouldn't trust any "backup" url's unless a mod posts them.
silkroadvb5piz3r.onion
it's working woot!
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its working but what dpr said is discouraging it may go down again soon
edit: I have several orders that are now marked as 'late' I am going to send individual messages to this members but I'm just wondering, when auto finalize is disabled is the 4 day period from order to marked in transit not disabled as well? These orders are from after midday friday, therefore would not have been shipped until monday AM. Monday AM I was not able to log in and so the orders sat and were not fulfilled
Is this normal giving the customers the right to cancel even though SR was down? I just don't want to be sending orders out and having them cancelled
any input from moderators?
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Up ad running like new! Smoth and fast browsing!
Thanks DPR for all your hard effoert on this. You truly are the Boss! I am sure you have taken precautions against future attacks
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Is this normal giving the customers the right to cancel even though SR was down? I just don't want to be sending orders out and having them cancelled
any input from moderators?
We only know what you know. We'll have to wait for an update from DPR here.
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Thanks for the quick response, scout.
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Buckle up boys its silk road is online again
thanks dpr and team oh captain my captain
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Thanks for all of your hard work, it's much appreciated.
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everything seems to running smooth :D thanks everybody!
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DPR I'd hug you and your team if I could find a way to.
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its working but what dpr said is discouraging it may go down again soon
edit: I have several orders that are now marked as 'late' I am going to send individual messages to this members but I'm just wondering, when auto finalize is disabled is the 4 day period from order to marked in transit not disabled as well? These orders are from after midday friday, therefore would not have been shipped until monday AM. Monday AM I was not able to log in and so the orders sat and were not fulfilled
Is this normal giving the customers the right to cancel even though SR was down? I just don't want to be sending orders out and having them cancelled
any input from moderators?
Just wanted to update and say all my pending orders have been (and everyone elses I can assume) switched back a few days to when SR went offline.
Originally when I logged in most of my pending orders were marked 'late' because I hadn't shipped them. This has been rectified and more time has been added to the orders.
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woot woot! Fuck these attackers
lol, hoping this is LE's like last chance sorta thing hahahaha
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Go suck it, Attackers, we are back!
Big thanks to DPR and Crew for your hard work. I raise my glass of bourbon in honor of your efforts. There's no better place to be right now.
-Hawk23
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Yeah baby! Nice to be back on! Love this community. Thanks guys xxx
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UPDATE (05/01/2013 0238 UTC): Silk Road is open and accessible. As soon as the attacker finds out, he will likely change his tactics and try to take the site down again. Hopefully he won't be able to, but time will tell.
You are amazing! I've never been so happy to see that login screen!
I hope that the attacker decides against changing his tactics. At least this gives you some time to sleep and regroup.
Best of luck.
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Awesome work DPR, so good to see that green camel!!
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FUCK YEAH
THANKS DRP
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Thanks DPR, Silkroad is going to prevail.
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Woohoo! Thanks for fighting the good fight DPR!
Now sleep.
Sleeeeeeeep.
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Yay, I'm probably gonna make rent! And also continue being a vendor here. LOL
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Great DPR, thank you a lot for all the efforts you put allowing us our piece of freedom! ;)
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UPDATE (05/01/2013 0238 UTC): Silk Road is open and accessible. As soon as the attacker finds out, he will likely change his tactics and try to take the site down again. Hopefully he won't be able to, but time will tell.
At the very least, hopefully this break will allow customers to finalize and allow vendors to process orders stuck in limbo.
DPR's updates have become more and more ominous, I truly hope that a permanent solution can be found.
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Yeah SR is up and running right now and lightning fast as well. Hope it will stay like this for a while now.
Thank so so much for your efforts DPR we all love you.
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Woke up this morning started up computer praying as i have the last few mornings SR would be up. Log in page appeared an i shout out loud YOU FUCKIN DANCER!!! Thanks DPR u the man :) ;D
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Looks like the attacker woke up. ffs/
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A rough road ahead but we must continue!
The site is probably stronger than ever now
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At least people were able to withdraw their BTC.
DPR certainly gave the impression that this was not over.
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Gone again! That didn't last long. All I get is:
"Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion.
The connection has timed out
The server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion is taking too long to respond."
Vidalia:
May 01 05:05:02.781 [Warning] Query '[scrubbed]' didn't have valid rend desc in cache. Failing.
May 01 05:07:05.609 [Notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:80. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)
Crappy solutions. Back to the drawing board.
goblin
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Gone again! That didn't last long. All I get is:
"Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion.
The connection has timed out
The server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion is taking too long to respond."
Vidalia:
May 01 05:05:02.781 [Warning] Query '[scrubbed]' didn't have valid rend desc in cache. Failing.
May 01 05:07:05.609 [Notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:80. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)
Crappy solutions. Back to the drawing board.
goblin
I think it's a problem on your end, it's been working fine (and indeed faster than in weeks!) on my end.
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Can't connect :(
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Working great here! I am SO thankful. Much love to DPR and anyone else who helped make it happen! <3
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MDUK, are ou saying you're on right this minute? Cause all I get is
May 01 05:18:52.593 [Notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:80. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)
and
Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion.
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Gone again! That didn't last long. All I get is:
"Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion.
The connection has timed out
The server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion is taking too long to respond."
Vidalia:
May 01 05:05:02.781 [Warning] Query '[scrubbed]' didn't have valid rend desc in cache. Failing.
May 01 05:07:05.609 [Notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:80. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)
Crappy solutions. Back to the drawing board.
goblin
I think it's a problem on your end, it's been working fine (and indeed faster than in weeks!) on my end.
Same for me. Quicker than it's been in the last few weeks and working fine. Yes, I'm on SR right now.
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I am in right now Goblin, not sure if some people are still having regional issues or not. I time out quite often and have to hit the try again button but I am getting where I need to go eventually.G
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Wow, just like that back on line. Was starting to doubt my own sanity.
DPR and gang you absolute heros
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Viva SR! I knew you'd prevail DPR, thank you for you're hard work. I don't know if we're out of the water yet, but I sure hope so.
Now go and sleep! I'm sure you've been working hard, you need a well deserved break!
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So glad SR is back !
Thx for your hard work, long life SR !
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Well done guys! That's so awesome you're back up and running :)
Congratulations - I knew you'd be back!
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Thanks for the hard work DPR, hopefully it will stay up now so I can buy my post-exam supply ;)
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Jipeee!
Access is very fast atm but of course this will slow down once congestion ensues again...
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This whole business has given me the impression that DPR is some ultra-haxxor prodigy. The sails are a bit tattered, and the crew tired, but the ship launches out of the storm with unbridled fury. No power in the Verse can stop us.
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LONG LIVE DPR!!! 8)
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I have had no luck. Perhaps it is the fact that there is a lot of clicking going on? =) I'll keep trying.
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Thanks and Best Wishes to DPR and the entire staff! AWESOME job....The work you do is truly appreciated by the entire community!
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Congratulations and Salutations!
Bikerbum
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Good morning Silk Road! Awesome work guys, didn't expect this! Just finalised 3 orders and made 2 more, hurrah!
Best of luck for when the bastard returns,
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Took me 30 minutes to even load the login page. Then I keep getting Privoxy errors. Feels like the attack is intermittent.
I did manage to login but it keeps ceasing up now that I am
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It's great to SR up and working again, however we cannot seem to add a new listing, every time we try to do so we get an "error"
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
is anyone else encountering this problem?
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Took a few times to access the site, hope it's not under attack again. FUCK YOU whoever is doing this.
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Is the site under attack again? i cant seem to get to the login page anymore! i was logged and with everything working this morning. Could it be genuine traffic has gone threw the roof with it coming back up 2day!
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Is the site under attack again? i cant seem to get to the login page anymore! i was logged and with everything working this morning. Could it be genuine traffic has gone threw the roof with it coming back up 2day!
That's what I was assuming as well. However DPR mentioned that the person/persons responsible may be attempting again after they had fixed it. :-\ :'(
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Having the same issue. Got on no problem this morning and now nothing :(
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THANK YOU DPR and Team. 8) 8) 8)
Never expected SR to be up again so soon.
Great work, may you ever stay one step ahead of the haters.
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I was able to get on for a few hours and now its looking like the same shit . Cant get in at all now.
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I think we have been shut back down.. FML.. lol.. rephrase F THE LIFE OF THE GUY DOING THIS!!! i have yet to understand How the hell he is DDOS ' ing a ONion site to start with.. Wonder if any one has consderd a sql injection
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It let me back in a few min, then done again.. could be traffic
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I think we have been shut back down.. FML.. lol.. rephrase F THE LIFE OF THE GUY DOING THIS!!! i have yet to understand How the hell he is DDOS ' ing a ONion site to start with.. Wonder if any one has consderd a sql injection
Seems to be working 4 me again now
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It's hard to say for sure right now whether the site is under attack again, as I can sort of navigate the site if I wait a long time and refresh each page a few times, it could just be busy with users right now. I wonder if any of my orders got shipped in the brief window when the site worked? If any of my orders shipped I hope I can finalize in a timely fashion when they arrive.
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Fuckity fuck fuck fuck arggggggggggggggggggggggggggg >:( :-[ :'(
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Cant get in, do we have to try 10-20 times to get in guys?
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Still no access either last night or today. I guess I'll have to order elsewhere.
UK vendors PM me, you know it makes sense.
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I don't really know anything about running a site on tor, or anything much about computers.
I am however, to support this great community, perfectly willing to help dig the hole that this idiot attacker is going to end up in.
Peace :-)
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I've just had "XML Parsing Error: unexpected parser state" looks like the kid has woken up again.
But it can't be anything so trivial, can it? I mean, just because the guy(s) notices that SR is back up again, he can't just say alakazaam! and that's it, back to obliterating SR. It has to need some time, maybe a long time to change "tactics" to dos the site again. If it's a botnet, won't it take a really long time to deploy new bot malware packets to do his nefarious deeds?
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I'm logged in now :)
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Lucky. :(
No go here. Was on last night and was able to make some listings at least.
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It took 3 or 4 refreshes but Im in..
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It took 3 or 4 refreshes but Im in..
Same here!
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bummer to everyone still unable to connect, just keep trying you'll get in, I suggest reconnecting to Tor.. cheers an goodluck everybody.
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I think it is just traffic at this point.
I was just in. Then out. Then in. Then out again. Now I can't get in, with the error:
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
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Im in again and working fine.. Its 8:22 am on my side.. USA EAST COAST.. Gotta be traffic I wish my fukin vendor iv had something in with since sat AM would WAKE HIS ASS UP AND TRY!!! SO he can tell me where my dope is..LOL
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down again. so it is stressful. bastard attacker. DPR kick away this bastard!
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Good work DPR and team. Love you guys.
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Couldn't get on again for ages and then got in.
I have no understanding of all this DoSing shit, but I suspect it's being attacked again rather than just lots of traffic. Could be wrong (people can confirm), but IIRC when the site first started being attacked, it wasn't completely down - it was behaving much as it is now. Up and down, in and out. Then completely down.
That said, it's running smoothly for me right now. Fast loading.
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High traffic volumes probably produce the same symptoms as DDOS. I suspect that the connectivity issues will lessen over time.
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Been working well for me the last 30 mins. Not trying to be a dick. I would like too see that 10% discount banner again, though. =)
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I think it is just traffic at this point.
I was just in. Then out. Then in. Then out again. Now I can't get in, with the error:
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
I think your right because i can get in with enough refreshes! It will probably just be all the people rushing to the road because they know its back online and vendors are probably spending time to update and respond to messages on so on
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I'm also only having intermittent access to SR. I'm really starting to believe that these attacks do originate from Atlantis. Moreover I'm also quite certain the attacker is not going to stop. If he breaks through again with the next couple of hours or days so that SR is closed AGAIN for a day or 2, vendors and buys certainly will go to Atlantis just because everyone here wants drugs or wants to make money. It looks all so simple, because as long as SR exists and functions well, there's totally no need to go to Atlantis. Why would you since all vendors and buyers are here.
However I do hope that DPR finds a permanent solution this al qaeda piece of shit
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thank you DPR for everything you've done, for your lack of sleep and for your diligent service. I hope we can find a permanent solution soon.
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Atlantis is certainly the most obvious suspect, but even that theory seems problematic to me. Apparently while the site is really smooth and awesome for buyers (functionality-wise, not community or anything else-wise), it's actually massively time-consuming for vendors. That's the reason JOR gave for their plan to move FROM atlantis onto BMR, should problems here persist.
Maybe I'm being naive and looking for holes in the theory, but if people are right in thinking that this attack is pretty unique and being carried out extremely effectively, and was planned for weeks and weeks if not more... Wouldn't they have made Atlantis truly fucking awesome as well, so that people pick it over BMR? Again, no idea about this DoSing shit, but my instincts are that whoever is capable of carrying out such a thing, is more than capable of setting up a site that functions as well as the silk road for vendors. If I was willing to go to such lengths to ruin the competition, I'd make sure my site was untouchable beforehand, especially when BMR exists...
Just some thoughts. I don't know shit.
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Took me a long while but i am back on again. Lets hope it stays this way . I am afraid to sign off now!
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Through liberte linux it has ran like a well oiled machine for me since my last post, no errors, no time outs. If I had a million dollars to donate to DPR and his crew, I would gladly give yea every cent. SR is my drug. Seeing that main page again this morning was like taking a hit. Uplifting and euphoric. =)
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I use Liberte and have no such luck. Got on for about an hour earlier and it hasn't worked for me for about another hour. Refreshed many times and still 503 forwarding error keeps coming back.
This sucks ass
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Working fine for me, thanks dpr!
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I use Liberte and have no such luck. Got on for about an hour earlier and it hasn't worked for me for about another hour. Refreshed many times and still 503 forwarding error keeps coming back.
This sucks ass
Do the reboot maybe? It has not timed out on me once yet. Got some coin up, sent some messages, now browsing. Not really even wanting too buy anything. Just love being there and browsing.
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Not really even wanting too buy anything. Just love being there and browsing.
At risk of sounding like a dick, but maybe jump off and ease the load for those of us who are struggling?
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Not really even wanting too buy anything. Just love being there and browsing.
At risk of sounding like a dick, but maybe jump off and ease the load for those of us who are struggling?
Absolutely! :)
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in the 12 hours since DPR brought the site back, 16 people finalized and left feedback for me. How's that for awesome customers? Awesome people, awesome DPR, awesome mods
I'm stunned! Stunned I tell you!
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Not really even wanting too buy anything. Just love being there and browsing.
At risk of sounding like a dick, but maybe jump off and ease the load for those of us who are struggling?
Absolutely! :)
Thanks mate! +1
edit: just managed to place an order, clearly thanks to Qthello!
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DPR is a beast! Thanks for all the hard work DPR and all other staff. :)
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Still not able to get the SR, just a problem loading page for me. Forums load fine, so it's not a connection issue
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Gone again for me but thankfully I was able to get in long enough this morning to finalize 2 orders which had arrived so I'm happy ;D
Thanks SR team, your work is appreciated!
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Just chill out and give it some time. Most likely a large percentage of the users are all trying to access the site at the same time right now, overloading it.
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I cannot get in either! and I have been trying and trying and trying again :(
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in the 12 hours since DPR brought the site back, 16 people finalized and left feedback for me. How's that for awesome customers? Awesome people, awesome DPR, awesome mods
I'm stunned! Stunned I tell you!
I experienced something very similar. Thanks a MILLION guys! :D
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No dice, not even the login page. Just connection timeout or unable to connect.
I did get in this morning for a FEW minutes, thank goodness.
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Just chill out and give it some time. Most likely a large percentage of the users are all trying to access the site at the same time right now, overloading it.
I'm not too worried, but I've had an order come in and would love to finalize for the vendor
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No dice, not even the login page. Just connection timeout or unable to connect.
I did get in this morning for a FEW minutes, thank goodness.
Same here. Glad I was able to get on for about 20 minutes to finalize some orders though.
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again down >:(
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whoever is pulling this shit needs to get raped with a cheese grater
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I think it says a lot about the community as a whole that so many of us are panicking about being able to finalize our orders. It's not the vendors panicking that they want the customers to finalize, it's the vendors worrying about getting orders out and customers worrying about finalizing in a timely manner.
Thanks for the hard work DPR/team!! I'm so thankful to be a part of something so revolutionary! Some day I will be able to tell the next generation how I was on the forefront of such a historic movement.
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>:(yep I'm out to - am going to leave it until later tonight before trying again, as it could just be everyone trying to get on to sort their orders out - constant refresh = :'(
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I think it says a lot about the community as a whole that so many of us are panicking about being able to finalize our orders. It's not the vendors panicking that they want the customers to finalize, it's the vendors worrying about getting orders out and customers worrying about finalizing in a timely manner.
Thanks for the hard work DPR/team!! I'm so thankful to be a part of something so revolutionary! Some day I will be able to tell the next generation how I was on the forefront of such a historic movement.
Exactly how i feel, even tho i cant tell anyone in public :-X HISTORY ! DPR/TEAM KEEP THE FIGHT GOIN ! POSITIVE ENERGY WILL WIN !
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In multiple times today, occasional slowdowns or timeouts but was able to finalize, send PMs and place orders! Keep the Road rockin!
Many thanks to DPR and the team for creating and defending this place.
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got in for a few hours was able to send out orders.
Only 1 person finalized ::)
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Urgh, fuck. At least my BC is released.
Edit: It's back.
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got in for a few hours was able to send out orders.
Only 1 person finalized ::)
Back on now caman
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Are we back under attack again? I'm having no luck...
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Are we back under attack again? I'm having no luck...
Try log on there mate im trying all day and finally got on there and is working fine
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Still nothing. Ach this is infuriating.
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On again. *shrug*
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Not really even wanting too buy anything. Just love being there and browsing.
At risk of sounding like a dick, but maybe jump off and ease the load for those of us who are struggling?
Absolutely! :)
Thanks mate! +1
You're welcome! Now someone else jump outa the pool and let me back in so I can place one. =) And don't piss in it! :P
edit: just managed to place an order, clearly thanks to Qthello!
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I think the issue is from everyone trying to access the login page at once, it's overloading that page with requests. Once you are able to get in, the site runs fast and without any issues. Be patient, the "whole world" is trying to access the site meow.
If you can't get in, either wait a few hours OR use a new identity/restart TOR browser. Worked for me last night to finalize an order.
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If you can't get in, either wait a few hours OR use a new identity/restart TOR browser. Worked for me last night to finalize an order.
Thanks!
Wow, 53 posts and no negs? I'm jealous ;D. But happy to be giving you your first +.
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Yeah, It makes sense...
I hope the fuck fucking fuckers how did this will stop that shit now.
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If you can't get in, either wait a few hours OR use a new identity/restart TOR browser. Worked for me last night to finalize an order.
Thanks!
Wow, 53 posts and no negs? I'm jealous ;D. But happy to be giving you your first +.
LOL, thanks! Let it marinade for a second so it doesn't hurt so bad, please! heh
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Im in and its running smoothly
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I am in for the first time in quite awhile. Thank you DPR for fighting this war for us!
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"explosive growth" keeping SR down again?
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Down again? Was on it earlier but can't get on now.
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I'm on right now.
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If you can't get in, either wait a few hours OR use a new identity/restart TOR browser. Worked for me last night to finalize an order.
Thanks!
Wow, 53 posts and no negs? I'm jealous ;D. But happy to be giving you your first +.
LOL, thanks! Let it marinade for a second so it doesn't hurt so bad, please! heh
Oops, spoke too soon, looks like someone else noticed you haven't been negged yet. Sorry, was probably my fault for pointing that out considering I got another - since, haha.
What's with all the hate? Sr is back up!
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i can't get on right now.. but i could this morning.
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Good luck and I hope it's fixed soon.
>:( >:( >:( >:(
Well DPR im glad you guys have things up and running again ,that said i am a bit nervous because you guys dont sound as confident as you normally do.I really hope this doesnt define you guys.I hope this isn t that reason you guys shut down.This site is very important in the fight against tyranny and oppression .The fight against prohibition against drugs could very well be at the end .I said this when i found this site that if we could keep this site up long enough then those that would have us marked (non violent drug useres) for death and jails, slavery ect ect. would come to the realization that they are the ones that are loosing tons of $ and therefore move to legalize all drugs.Its the only logical outcome because lets be honest ,DRUG PROHIBITION is not about helping people out of there misery its a bout the $ bills.Thats a fact as we all know.Now i think when these governments and agencys realize that they cannot stop this and see how much money can be made from this ,i believe that they will come to the table..There are multibple agencys doing reports on how much SR is making and gauging "most likely " for them selves how much money would be involed in legalizing drugs over continuing with the current war on drugs.This is just my oppinion but i makes sense..Portugal is doing very well with there de criminalization of drugs and i wonder how much $ it would generate for the US economy ?
lastly DPR do you think that these DOS attack are from government agencys? I see all the post ,s about these attacks and nobody seems to ask or say who is doing this .only that it is someone with the motive to destroy SR...... Who has the motive and time and energy "and the cash" To do something like this.....? hmmmmmmm....?? let me think about this..Im not going to accuse anyone but it would seem that only certain agencys would have the resources ,time and motivation to pull something off like this no ?
Why would some hacker decide to make DOS attacks against SR. and ! its forums..If it was only a lone wolf hacker that was interested in showing his skills on the key board then there are alot better places that would be alot more respected by the hacker community to hit no ? This stinks of LE and they would seem to be the only group that would benifit from doing something like this.
Im not trying to scare people but if someone was hacking SR why in the hell would they take a shot at the SR forum / that makes no sense.I think that if one was going to make trouble for SR they would hack the site and make off with as much BTC as possible.
Well DPR please keep up the good work we are all behind you! Also i believe i speak for all when i say the the whole community is behind you .
ps .. Thousands of year from now when we all pass from this mortal coil the name SR and DPR will be in the history books .This is a monumental time what you have done and what we are a part of is revolutionary .Im glad to be a part of it...peace
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I'm guessing atlantis are behind this, or as you say LE. But this doesn't benefit LE half as much as it would benefit a competitor with a flash new website, i have heard rumours it could be mob/mafia run too (and i'm pretty sure they know a thing or two about disposing of competition). Who knows though, i just want SR running smooth again. Anyone notice the btc rate dropping while SR is down?
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Green light for me.....
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Props to the DPR/SR crew. Respect.
Could very well be Atlantis behind all this. Figures if it is. Did it work? Yeah, they got some business and people to try which might not have otherwise. But they won't prosper.
Karma don't play that.
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Yep, working like a dream! Appreciate the hard work from DPR and the rest of the crew!
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Props to the DPR/SR crew. Respect.
Could very well be Atlantis behind all this. Figures if it is. Did it work? Yeah, they got some business and people to try which might not have otherwise. But they won't prosper.
Karma don't play that.
Karma don't play that. :D Agreed!
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Strange, I've been trying to access SR for an hour or so without any luck.
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Hugs @ the Dread Pirate Roberts & Staff ;)
for those that complain about bitinstant...everytime i see this i am called to use them myself LOL
today i did 2 transactions for the max amount..back to back....they went through just fine for me..now i'm wonderin
those of you that seem to get bad results with bitinstant.....i've never had a bad experience with them at all..ok..so just wondering...are we using the same bitinstant? LOL
:P
Peace, Love & Hugs @ Everyone :)
ChemCat
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I was able to get on today during one of my few random attempts. Worked fast as ever. My mood has completely changed, as all my orders were able to be straightened out, messages read,etc except for one purchase (La Fuente, last seen 4 days ago.) Hopefully all vendors get a turn to get on soon.
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I can enter to silkroad with no problems, thanks, we are a community we can more than a few fools.
SR!!!!!
Thanks 4 all
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Absolutely inaccesible, for at least an hour to this time.
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its been in and out. sometimes i get on smoothly and other times its more of the timeout.
no worries. i was able to get done what i needed to. but, ill probably wait to place anymore orders until things settle down.
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We've been able to get on and send a few messages but now everything just keeps timing out :( nearly got a new listing up lol :/
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HEY DRP, THANKS. Keep working smart and hard.
HEY DOS ATTACKER, FUCK YOU!!
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I was able to get on last night. Thank you. Today no such luck yet. I've tried changing my identity several times.
May 01 12:34:56.505 [Warning] Query '[scrubbed]' didn't have valid rend desc in cache. Failing.
May 01 12:55:27.115 [Notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:80. Giving up.
May 01 12:59:04.416 [Notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:80. Giving up. (waiting for circuit)
May 01 13:36:15.117 [Notice] Closing stream for '[scrubbed].onion': hidden service is unavailable (try again later).
May 01 13:41:42.444 [Notice] Tried for 120 seconds to get a connection to [scrubbed]:80. Giving up. (waiting for rendezvous desc)
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Well done DPR and the team.
I do like a nice bit of hash and am unable to get any other then this place. It's almost like having a coffee shop in town. Keep up the amazing work
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everything is working flawlessly, thanks DPR keep it smooth like now...
Long live SR
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awesome work DPR keep it up:)
Long live SR:)
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Peace and Love DPR!!! If Karma was a drink I toast you with a tall glass!
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awesome. Good job. Hopefully the attackers are done.
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Great stuff ! got my orders finalized :) I know we're certainly not out of the woods just yet but with the site working as it is now it has given me a huge confidence boost.
Good luck with all your further efforts DPR, we all really appreciate the work you're doing for us!
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Peace and Love DPR!!! If Karma was a drink I toast you with a tall glass!
I'd fill a bath full of champagne and chuck a couple of high class hookers in for him 8)
DPR's got some serious power in battle - next one that comes you dun know DPR gwan put him on his ass.
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Many thanks to DPR and his helpers. This site is a revolution and very necessary.
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This sight is revolutionary indeed. I have been on this road for a long time, and have spent a lot of time lurking these forums, not commenting nearly enough as I should. During the last few days, I have read a lot of comments that have made statements to the effect of how we will read of this website in the future, and how it will be a part of history, ect..I have recently realized just how true those statements are. The fact that this site is still resilient after being attacked by who-the-fuck-knows, and also after being publicly outed to LE and the general population (Gawker), is unbelievable. We will surely read about us in the future. Maybe we'll still be buying quality drugs from home at ease, or maybe we'll just be reminiscing about a man/woman/program/ named DPR, who gave us the most unbelievable and brazen gift fringe dwellers have ever seen...
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I can't get on the Road at all using Lib Linux. I was able to with the browser, but all my fucking shit is on lib, blast!
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Is this going to negatively affect finalization since I can't seem to ever get access for the past several days?
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Fuck, the attackers are at it again!! >:( Cock suckers!!
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Shit don't work again. I was able to process orders this morning but now I can't access the site.
:(
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Peace and Love DPR!!! If Karma was a drink I toast you with a tall glass!
I'd fill a bath full of champagne and chuck a couple of high class hookers in for him 8)
DPR's got some serious power in battle - next one that comes you dun know DPR gwan put him on his ass.
DPR is a very cleaver man, a pirate defending his ship, dont fuck with him cos you will not win. This guy is a legend, you are in very save hands with DPR looking after things, id defo send you a big bag of weed if i could i bet the poor guy is fucking shattered, thank you for your hard work :)
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is anyone still having issues? I was able to access earlier for a while, but now can't again. I assume that it's due to the amount of traffic right now, but it would be nice to know if anyone else is having troubles
Thanks
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Yeah, it stopped working for me too for a bit but getting a new identity in Tor fixed it.
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Just got on again after a half hour of timeouts.
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Yeah, it stopped working for me too for a bit but getting a new identity in Tor fixed it.
Yeah what hemolyzer suggests worked for me too - just change your identity thru tor.
+1 my man - I'll bust your karma cherry
And fuckin well done DPR
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I'm not having any trouble at all aside from timing out once.
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I haven't been able to log on since this morning, despite numerous identities :(
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c'mon guys and gals :)
don't fret (Hugs)
i am sure changes are being made......this work of progress we call the Road will continue to grow :)
just needs our patience (Hugs again)
Peace,
ChemCat
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Community,
I am not one to complain at all and I appreciate everything the staff has done to try and fix this problem, I am just coming to the point where I am extremely frustrated. I mean when is enough, enough?! I cannot even stay on the site long enough to put up a listing, it is like jump for joy if I can move a coin or two. And you can definitely tell that SR runs the bitcoin market. In my opinion, people are losing there confidence in the site and are pulling there money out and converting it to cash because of the future uncertainty.
Please do not take any of this the wrong way, DPR you are the man and have done so much for all of us and me personally. I just do not know how to react at this point when I cannot stay on the site for more than 3 minutes without timing out. I mean what are some other options here... Does anyone else feel the same way.. I dont know, sorry for venting, I will either go down with SR or keep going with SR but I refuse to work at any of these other sites I just do not trust it.... There needs to be a way we can make this more of a private place, maybe close registrations for awhile, I dont know... I hope I am not alone on this.
Is anyone else getting this every time trying to put up an order:
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
Subs
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It worked for me after a few identities, did what I had too, logged off already in hopes that others could use my spot...Good Luck everyone and stay safe on the road...Late....Kio
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everything is working great right now. Great job DPR.
It's up to you guys, but due to the recent attacks I decided to donate some BTC to DPR. He's done a great job getting through this, so it's Just a thought!
to do so just go to the main site--->account--->send to user----> Dread Pirate Roberts
Peace
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no worries about venting my friend (hugs)
:)
just please have some or more patience...seriously...this hurdle has been dealt with in a very timely manor :)
so relax and be a little patient...i do understand about addiction....be strong... we'll all get there together...
(Hugs Again)
Peace, Love & Hugs @ You All :)
ChemCat
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no worries about venting my friend (hugs)
:)
just please have some or more patience...seriously...this hurdle has been dealt with in a very timely manor :)
so relax and be a little patient...i do understand about addiction....be strong... we'll all get there together...
(Hugs Again)
Peace, Love & Hugs @ You All :)
ChemCat
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Thanks for the message, not sure if you are being facetious or not but I am not trying to buy stuff here.... I am trying to run my business... I am going to give it some more time and like I said- I will either die with the road or stay in business with the road. I do not date trust any of these other sites, esp this atlantis that just pops up right when we start going through the issues... DPR has it under control I know he will come through like he always does...goodluck all
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As I was typing my last post, I got in :) Now, if we could just get Litecoin to leave the site alone (and stop manipulating Bitcoin) all would be wonderful in the world again.
I want to say that I absolutely love this community. Honest vendors and buyers...you rock!
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nah i wasnt being facetious :)
vend or buy...be patient and you..we will benefit :)
no animocity or anything bad meant (hugs again)
just throwin out my two bitcoins...i'm just another person tryin to pay bills brother/sister (Hugs once more)
:P
Peace, Love & Positive Energy to You All :)
ChemCat
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hmmmm....here's another 2 bitcoins from me LOL :P
if we act as a family....we will prevail :) let us not forget... we need the vendors as much as they need us..this has been laid upon our table..some of us will get it right ..some will go down...make the most out of this blessing we have been given...at least i will.....
Peace,
ChemCat
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I hope it all gets sorted out soon enough...
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@ uyjulian
it will :)
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HaHa :P
for those that wanna raise my negative karma :P
remember...people can read my past posts :P
dont you look silly now :P
heh heh
:)
ChemCat
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DPR, sr is working smoothly. so with that being said i will now say this, i will remain fiercely loyal to sr. im with it till the end, until i can no longer get on sr for an indefinite amount of time, that is when i will look for alternatives. this shit has helped me out a lot so thank you DPR and SR
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wooo this has played out smoother than I expected! DPR you're on a new level, thanks for keeping this free market accessible!
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UPDATE (05/01/2013 0238 UTC): Silk Road is open and accessible.
Wooo!!! \o/
Site flies smooth like a seagull on a sunny day. As always, the pirate delivers.
As soon as the attacker finds out, he will likely change his tactics and try to take the site down again. Hopefully he won't be able to, but time will tell.
Let them try, the fuckers. Not that I like overworking DPR and his folks, but what doesn't kill the road makes it all the more wide and inviting ;D
Now playing: Pink Floyd -- "A Great Day For Freedom"
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I don't think any of us can put into words how grateful we are for you, DPR and staff. Thank you for winning this battle, seems like the Road is running smoother than ever. Your dedication and hard work has not gone unnoticed.
Thank you so much for having a vision and a passion that we all can be a part of. All hats off to you and your awesome team.
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I just wanted to pop in and say thank you DPR and Staff!
MUCH LOVE
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Ya Baby, SR is up and Running again, Good work DPR. The people have spoken Legalize Freedom
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oh noes is it down again for anyone else?
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Down for me too :(
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oh noes is it down again for anyone else?
Even I cannot log in since hours now. Every time I do, it gives me the try again message!
Hope it gets resolved pretty soon though like it always does with DPR and his team! Thumps up for them!!
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Just when I was going to order.
It seems like whoever is knocking down SR stops long enough to let people pull their BTC out to shop at another site. Those of us that stay loyal they hope to create longer and longer times of not being able to get on SR thus making those members frustrated and hopefully they will leave too. Maybe its to tie up more orders when it does go down again and frustrate more people into leaving,
Stick a few people in the SR forums to spread the word about other sites and ordering there. Thats all it would take for some to just wander away.
Myself I aint going anywhere.
WARNING:
Im a suspicious person by nature and have no real understanding of how these things work. This is purely speculation and my imagination at work.
:-*
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Still working fine for me. :-\
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It was down for me but I switched to a new TOR identity and it's working fine now. Hope that helps somebody..
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In now but very slow and keeps cutting out
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oh noes is it down again for anyone else?
just hard to get in but not down..
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Got all my orders finalized 8) all the best folks
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Don't understand SR is online or don't? Why I can't log in. And what's wrong with tormail?
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News is becoming widely spread that this may be the end of SR - please don't let it be so DPR!!! We have faith in you and the team to get this bastard!
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I think it may have to do with loads of people logged on at once due to the excitement!
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TL;DR: Update your Tor Browser Bundle.
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html
I got in once yesterday just after DPRs last update. After that I've had trouble getting the page to load. Tried several times with different identities without luck. Decided to get the latest Tor Browser Bundle update. Ever since then it has been smoothing sailing. Don't know if that was the cause of my connection problems, but to whoever has trouble getting onto the site; try to update your Tor Browser! Maybe DPR has implemented some change that requires the latest version?
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Over and over and over and over:
Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion
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News is becoming widely spread that <FUDDIDY FUD FUD>
Chill out, watch Easy A, don't believe every rumor you hear.
Road works for me, slick like the Roadrunner.
OK now I'm imagining Wiley E Coyote trying to DDoS the Intro points, and DPR as the Roadrunner just running circles around the coyote.
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Managed to get in at 4am this morning... But I'm having no luck now.
Find the address of this hacker. Send it to me.
I'll fly out to wherever he is, and I'll kill the cunt.
No charge. Free. Gratis.
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Uh-oh...
Not again... :(
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I managed to login in the first attempt; it did took a few minutes to load though
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works fine for me, a bit slow though.
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Its not even trying to load up :(
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I am not American (European) but is it not very easy for like the FBI or any organization with a lot of manpower/money to keep attacking SR ?
They have the state of the art computers etc.
I hardly can imagine a ''private'' person would get to so much trouble to put a site like SR down....what is there to gain ?
I know here in Europe they did it with some major banks....for an afternoon or so. Not really sure what they wanted ....
I am sure that when they continue to attack and make it more and more unreliable (and people loosing money because of that)
the majority will / have to find other more reliable places to buy their DOC.
This morning could log in for a few moments....quickly copied the orders/addresses (like I always do nowadays) and next minute it was down.
So today my orders will be send to my customers, they were the lucky ones .
To make sure...not blaming anyone for this downtime...except the assholes doing the attacks.
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You see how different it is for different people? That's what I don't understand. I do have the latest version of tor installed.
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Same here, and no dice currently.
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Thnank you DPR and all of the SR staff who are working so hard to keep the road operational; your efforts haven't gone unnoticed by the SR community and we wish you luck to win this battle!!!
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Had no problems earlier today... Was on SR for an hour or so 4 hours ago.. Logged in first try and was working fine..
Have just now tried to log on to send a few messages and no dice.. Not even getting to log in screen..
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Booo! Oh DPR I feel for you... if anyone can stop this prick it's you :-) Thank you for your hard work! Viva le Silk Road!!!!
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Nothing for me this morning kid's.
Edit: The fifth time I hit refresh I got in!
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stopped working for a while there, back on now it seems :fingers crossed:
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Aha! Now I'm in. :)
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Well it was working just fine and it went down right as I tried to load my new orders :(
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also in!
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i was in then it went down again! keep getting a message for a parsing error.
another time a page layout loaded but with the wrong colors!!! did not look good!
again really!!!!!
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well back in and now its working fine! hopefully just due to
volume at this point! well did what i had to do.
works for me! a million thanks dpr and co.
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interesting how its working for some people.. I had a good run for 24 hours so i can't complain.
Havn't been able to connect all the last 3-4. Tried everything, no matter though, long as its working for some people all hope is not lost :)
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yeah now its working fine like nothing was ever wrong.
probably just volume! whew! im relieved! im just tryna hop on and off
that way it doesnt busy it up and maybe someone else can get on :)
happy shopping!
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Restart Tor. Should help for some people.
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Is there any way we, normal users, can help?
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restart TOR and/or be patient....
After hours no pages loading I was away for 2 hours leaving the ''problem loading page'' on the screen.
Came in , refreshed and voila....in
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It's thursday may 02, 2013 in the early morn and ONCE AGAIN I cannot get in to SR. I guess they changed tactics again. Goddammit.
Libby
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Calm heads prevail.
When you select the button on Tor "New Identity" that changes your location, thus a new chance of getting on.
If you have tried a few new identities and still no go, (1) Restart Tor, completely stop the service, then restart it.
(2) Smoke a bowl, watch a show, give it 1hr or so, and return ON a new identity.
Basic troubleshooting folks!
:)
-F&H
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Its working again for me! Just a note to any of my customers who may be reading, any orders that are in right now will get shipped out today! :)
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sadly not working for me currently, was working fine a few hours ago, will keep at it. Good luck DPR
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Ben working fine and dandy here from last night, still no problems login in and out.
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And... we're down again. :(
EDIT:
Ok. Maybe not, but we're either under attack again or folks are hammering the servers hard for their fix.
LOL
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havent been able to get in the past 4-5 hours. fuck
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Was good a minute ago, but nothing now...uugghhh!!!
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I hate to get suspicious but is this our possible suspect? A SilkRoad member that's opening their 1st .onion site, with login, and has an interest in DDoS'ing .onion sites.
---===CLEARNET WARNING===---
http://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/1cjf3w/how_would_you_ddos_a_onion_website/
http://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/1ci7hw/do_any_past_examples_of_a_ddos_against_a_onion/
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I can get on the forums but only can access the road via .to
is this safe , I haven't really done anything but check on this order but can anyone advise is this safe or not ?
I haven't been able to get a log on page the other way in about 24 hours.
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Ooh, very bad: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=153176.msg1063596#msg1063596
If you logged in using that extension, it's time to change your password if not create a new account.
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I can get on the forums but only can access the road via .to
is this safe , I haven't really done anything but check on this order but can anyone advise is this safe or not ?
I haven't been able to get a log on page the other way in about 24 hours.
Not safe no.
Using .to means that your IP address can be linked to your SR activity.
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I haven't been able to get on in 2 weeks. I think its time I find another black market. Just to much of a pain in the ass when its happening for weeks / months. If it hasnt got fixed by now it doesnt look good. For me to get coins, then look to place an order, then wait for said order, hell the coin price could drop by I don't know how much. Good luck guys. Hope this shit gets fixed sometime.
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I haven't been able to get on in 2 weeks. I think its time I find another black market. Just to much of a pain in the ass when its happening for weeks / months. If it hasnt got fixed by now it doesnt look good. For me to get coins, then look to place an order, then wait for said order, hell the coin price could drop by I don't know how much. Good luck guys. Hope this shit gets fixed sometime.
update your tor
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I noticed IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT ;D after upgrading TOR; also click "new identity" in Vidalia; ;D that may help/ Ive been getting on fairly regularly, conducted biz, bot one thing, sold another - that is, posted product, accepted BTC, sent it out. Id say its working at about 75% for me - at this moment, anyway.
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not working for me either
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its been on and off, probably due to a ton of traffic from the site being down. It has been working intermittently for me throughout the last 2 or 3 hours for me though, so just be patient and I'm sure you'll get it.
Although, right now I might start eating words as I stare the the dreaded Red-503.
Grumble grumble gurmble...
Love you DPR, keep up the good work! We all send love your way my friends
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I haven't gotten anything to work the past 3 days!
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I haven't gotten anything to work the past 3 days!
Whaaat? It's been up since Tuesday night EST. Have you restarted, any other computers you can try?
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I had access for the first time in four days yesterday (Wednesday) after repeatedly trying daily, and now today I am again unable to access the website.. patience may be a virtue but it's not easy!!
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odd, its still working here, wonder if part of the solution was range IP banning except, I don't think thats possible with Tor.
have you guys tried reconnecting to the Tor network?
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Restarting the computer + changing identities seemed to help when I couldn't connect yesterday and others could. Also if I let it sit open a few minutes without doing anything, it usually doesn't keep the connection.
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I noticed IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENT ;D after upgrading TOR; also click "new identity" in Vidalia; ;D that may help/ Ive been getting on fairly regularly, conducted biz, bot one thing, sold another - that is, posted product, accepted BTC, sent it out. Id say its working at about 75% for me - at this moment, anyway.
This seemed to do the trick..!
I've had NO access. Downloaded the latest version and I'm in..!!!
I'm open for business..!
Thank fuck. (and of course, our brilliant captain DPR)
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The LEGENDARY SILK ROAD is up and running better than ever..!!!
Thank you Mr. Roberts..!
Fuck you Mr. Hacker..!
(Actually Mr. Hacker - let me have your address - I'll send you half a kilo of my best weed...)
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Protip for anyone who still can't connect:
I couldn't get a connection at all on either my desktop or laptop.
Updated tor browser to the latest version and now it's working flawlessly on both.
No idea why, but SR would not connect whatsoever on the old version.
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The LEGENDARY SILK ROAD is up and running better than ever..!!!
Thank you Mr. Roberts..!
Fuck you Mr. Hacker..!
(Actually Mr. Hacker - let me have your address - I'll send you half a kilo of my best weed...)
Revenantchild, what a saint! I'll throw in some M. Win the hacker over with our potent drugs ;).
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I was able to get on about an hour ago, so i went to do a Bitinstant deposit and now I can't get on. I have refreshed identities even and I already have the latest version of tor, it tells you if there's an update. Anyone else not able to login now?
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unable to connect :(
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I was able to get on about an hour ago, so i went to do a Bitinstant deposit and now I can't get on. I have refreshed identities even and I already have the latest version of tor, it tells you if there's an update. Anyone else not able to login now?
Yeah I was on earlier I refreshed a page and suddenly I can't load any pages. I hope everything is alright. Hopefully it's just too much traffic.
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I was on for the whole day and could not access the site anymore at the moment. :'(
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i also cant get back on. Is anyone in right now?
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Damn, just got my hopes up again, got one more new identity, got the sign in page, then went to sign in and it timed out again. Maybe it's just too many users on right now.
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It's loading slowly for me. I think it's just a lot of traffic.
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:( looks like another outage
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what new version are you guys talking about? Its currently 2.3.25-6 on TOR's website. I have the same version and I downloaded and been using it for the past 3 weeks or so. That means that TOR Browser Bundle hasnt been updated lately.
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It's loading slowly for me. I think it's just a lot of traffic.
hmm
what new version are you guys talking about? Its currently 2.3.25-6 on TOR's website. I have the same version and I downloaded and been using it for the past 3 weeks or so. That means that TOR Browser Bundle hasnt been updated lately.
yes, 2.3.25-6 is the newest stable build..
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i hope this is traffic related
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I only have one more hour to send my coins to SR and get the order placed in order to ship out today. :( Was going to do express and have it by tomorrow. I'm thinking I better just send the coins to Mt.Gox and exchange them for dollars until it's not overloaded to see what's going on first.
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down for me too... yikes
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It's not working for me aswell. Looks like its down again...
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I only have one more hour to send my coins to SR and get the order placed in order to ship out today. :( Was going to do express and have it by tomorrow. I'm thinking I better just send the coins to Mt.Gox and exchange them for dollars until it's not overloaded to see what's going on first.
??? why coins are at a low right now, may what to hold on to them in hopes they'll rise back up..
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SR is down for me too :(
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working for me just running very slow. tor and SR all ways make me think back to the dial up internet days
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if have to be a ninja to get on to SR.
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I only have one more hour to send my coins to SR and get the order placed in order to ship out today. :( Was going to do express and have it by tomorrow. I'm thinking I better just send the coins to Mt.Gox and exchange them for dollars until it's not overloaded to see what's going on first.
??? why coins are at a low right now, may what to hold on to them in hopes they'll rise back up..
Well, I hope they would rise up if I held on to them, but I've seen them as low as $7 a piece. lol. True they are at a low for recent weeks, but they're so volatile you never know. I see they just went up to 109.75 from 104-105 though.
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Wow if this keeps up much longer I'm gonna have to go back to a 9-5 corporate slave state job. Its my own fault for putting to many eggs in one basket...mistake shall not be made again.
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DOS attacks are just bullshit dude...DPR works so fucking hard, all for some butt hurt dick head to ruin everything over and over again...
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Unbelievable....... >:( :'(
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It is probably not even a DOS attack right now, could just be tons of traffic. I've been in and out all day and gotten orders all day so it has been working. Right now currently I can't get in but I am not worried about having to go back to my day job because I know how many obsticals DPR and his team have had to go through since launching the site and they have got through ALL of them. He is truly making history with this site and what does not kill it can only make it stronger. The only other "online black markets" I know about all seem like garbage compared to the road....I have not made any accounts on them and never will as long as the road as here, and I believe it will be here for awhile :)
I have managed to get in, process orders and send lots of messages but as I said, its been slow and in and out but I think it's just due to a lot of site traffic and not DOS traffic.
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I dunno, seems like a DOS attack again. Seems unlikely it's just "Everyone trying to get on"...
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:o just loaded for me 8)
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I just got on too
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Im back on too.
8)
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This continues to fuel my speculation that all of the problems are related to Litecoin. I don't think it's a coincidence that Bitcoin drops like a rock when SR is running, and climbs when it is out of commission. I wholeheartedly believe it's a trade war, with all of us stuck in the middle.
I just got in on the new version! It's slow, but I'm on.
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I'm on, had no issues at all today, except it being slow from time to time.
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PARANOIA PARANOIA PARANOIA!!
Working for me too ;D
Down for awhile, and got it back up. DPR is hard at work. Stop spreading unnecessary uncertainty.
Great job guys
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:-* :-* :-* kisses to DPR, an other anon heros
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Hopefully some hard partners are working on our side...
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Havn't been able to get it to work once. Not even the green circle.
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Havn't been able to get it to work once. Not even the green circle.
are you on the latest version of Tor, an or have you tried reconnecting to the Tor network?
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also, if you have a crowded network, might help if you can free up some bandwidth noticing that helps for me ;)
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It seems like every time I'm trying to beat a deadline, it's not connecting right. Any other time I try to get on it's smooth sailing, that's truly my luck. lol. Maybe a bunch of people were trying to meet the same deadline as me. Ahh well, one more day won't hurt. But thanks to DPR and the anon heroes! Group hug!
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Havn't been able to get it to work once. Not even the green circle.
I was having problems for about 30 minutes...I stopped TOR, restarted it then clicked use new identity and it was working immeadiately
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on it and its even reasonably fast...! nice1 DPR 8)
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Quit freaking out. If there's anything further for us to worry about DPR will let us know.
Service is intermittent because of traffic. It's peak usage time right now, so don't expect to get in. Remember, there are thousands of users that have been having trouble logging in the last few days.
So give it time, and every thing is fine. There are a lot of users attempting to access the site right now, but be patient.
I've been accessing the site in and out all day, so have some faith 8)
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Well I had not been able to get on in weeks. Today I erased the tor browser bundle from my computer and completely reinstalled it and was on in two seconds. All pages are loading faster than ever even now at night time. If anyone still is having trouble try what I mentioned, before I erased and reinstalled I tried using a new identity several times with no success but the reinstall seems to have worked! bout fucking time. I was seriously getting bummed. Thought it was over. Good luck guys.
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I have not needed to go through the entire "reinstall" process, It has been loading like it used to be, intermittently. I guess people got too comfortable before the attacks when the pages would load as if I where on my old 96k modem.
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OP updated
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Thanks for the update!
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THANK YOU DPR!!!
And fuck you cock sucking gum guzzling faggot hackers who have nothing else better to do with your lives!! Go get laid you fat lard ass mother fuckers I hope your reading this biches!!
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UPDATE (05/03/2013 0545 UTC): The attacks have been coming non-stop since my last update. We've been able to keep the site open more than half the time with only minor issues such as limited image uploading for vendors. Every hour we are making progress and I am feeling much more confident that we will come out on top within the next few days. Still, expect some unannounced down-time here and there.
I'm very pleased to hear this DPR! So much positivity in comparison to your other updates. I can get on right away right now! :)
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Nice work fellas. Good will prevail.
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I guess this is the unannounced down time :( first time in two days I totally can't get in.
Well, don't really have to be there anyway so no probs really :p
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OP updated
thanks for the update DPR:)
The road will Prevail!
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This is a premier:
[vr 3. mei 08:55:16 2013] Invalid Destination Hostname - One of your applications tried to establish a connection through Tor to "www.silkroadvb5piz3r.onion", which Tor does not recognize as a valid hostname. Please check your application's configuration.
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OP updated
:) Thank you sir DPR!!
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Well I had not been able to get on in weeks. Today I erased the tor browser bundle from my computer and completely reinstalled it and was on in two seconds. All pages are loading faster than ever even now at night time. If anyone still is having trouble try what I mentioned, before I erased and reinstalled I tried using a new identity several times with no success but the reinstall seems to have worked! bout fucking time. I was seriously getting bummed. Thought it was over. Good luck guys.
nytime things are going slow I re-download TOR, I could not login as well so I just re-downloaded and it worked quickly
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cheers for the update DPR keep up the good work
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If the problem can be solved financially, please let us know, create a donation account, maybe we can help.
I think mozilla developers can play a positive part in this issue. Good luck...
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The LEGENDARY SILK ROAD is up and running better than ever..!!!
Thank you Mr. Roberts..!
Fuck you Mr. Hacker..!
(Actually Mr. Hacker - let me have your address - I'll send you half a kilo of my best weed...)
Revenantchild, what a saint! I'll throw in some M. Win the hacker over with our potent drugs ;).
isn't it more like to get his address to go put a stop to the shennanigans? In the nicest possible way of course.. or perhaps not
Of course..! The nicest possible way...
I'd duct tape the motherfucker to a chair and see how many slices I can get out of his balls with a rusty razor blade after I've sliced his nipples off and stuck rusty needles in his eyeballs.
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The LEGENDARY SILK ROAD is up and running better than ever..!!!
Thank you Mr. Roberts..!
Fuck you Mr. Hacker..!
(Actually Mr. Hacker - let me have your address - I'll send you half a kilo of my best weed...)
Revenantchild, what a saint! I'll throw in some M. Win the hacker over with our potent drugs ;) .
isn't it more like to get his address to go put a stop to the shennanigans? In the nicest possible way of course.. or perhaps not
Of course..! The nicest possible way...
I'd duct tape the motherfucker to a chair and see how many slices I can get out of his balls with a rusty razor blade after I've sliced his nipples off and stuck rusty needles in his eyeballs.
+1 to you my friend!
EDIT: im on the road!!! fuck yess!
DPR you are the man!
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I love you DPR!
OOO OOO
O**** OO****O
O****OO***O
O*******O
O*****O
O***O
O*O
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The Bit Coins is losing value because of this
i hope it dont go back to 10$
Space Factory
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As a brand new vendor cutting my teeth right when this happened, I appreciate all your hard work. Show these assholes what's what!
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It seems like it is a lottery to get in. 9/10 times I get the server too busy error so I keep hitting try again. After about five times I open the forums to see and keep refreshing the other tab. Then at about 8 or 9 I look over and the tab says login instead of error.
Now it says welcome.
And yes the price of bitcoin is dropping because of this. Shitty.
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I love being part of this. It is bigger than any one person. This is the revolution, it will not! Be televised!
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Thank you so much to DPR and anyone else helping! You have our continued and full support... we WILL prevail! This place IS revolutionary, and it will not go down without a fight!!! <3
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I can't connect all. 500 privoxy error all day.
Have been waiting patiently for dpr to make the needed tune- ups, however I can't even place an order. Sucks major everything.
To.the ddos attacker- your a moron. Your only making life harder on honest people. A big FUCk YOU, can go a long way.
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Ben - Is your TOR up to date and have you tried using the 'new identity' button?
It's been fine for me, tried this morning before work and it was perfect. Just got back from work and got straight in.
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It's been fine for me, tried this morning before work and it was perfect. Just got back from work and got straight in.
Same here, just logged on 1 st attempt
Have some Karma as the sun's shining and I'm in a good mood 8)
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Can't login!
This is taking pretty long now....
We will have a very busy day once we will be able to login again haha
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And we are back down. We are going on a what feels like a week its been super hard to earn. This sucks. Hope they figure this out soon. Love this place but at the end of the day I gots bills to play. No I am in a situation where I pretty much have to setup shop on alternative markets also just to hedge my bets, and my bills. I have faith SR will come through stronger in the end.
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This is very strange because I am in as I type and it's running super fast, and has been each time I've logged in all day.
Seems some can some can't - odd!
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It's a little intermittent for me, I'd say it's working about 80% of the time at least. I know it's been mentioned already, but when I lose connection, I just restart my computer, reconnect to Tor, and I'm in. I've also noticed getting a new Tor identity help's as well. Good luck to the rest of you.
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This is very strange because I am in as I type and it's running super fast, and has been each time I've logged in all day.
Seems some can some can't - odd!
its annoying the hell out of me because i was on it yesterday no problem but now i keep getting the error
"Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)"
the same error message i got when sr was getting DDOS'D
Hope i get on soon!
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its rough times but hard to complain when others are working so hard to keep the site in a state where business hasn't come to a complete halt. all will return to normal, no way the hackers will make keeping the site down there full time job for to long... this hasn't been a casual attack that could be left alone for long periods of time.. that's why we got such a big block of working time yesterday, imo... :o
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It was working flawlessly for me the last two days, and was suprisingly fast. The past hour its been timing out for me but I did see scout mention in another thread that we may still be getting attacked but I guess DPR and his pirate crew but measures in place so he can't fully deny the service to the site overall. So it may be intermittent at the time being but hey, to me thats a small price to pay for one stop shopping on all things consciousness expanding. 8) 8)
LONG LIVE THE ROAD!!
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it wont load and when i hit refresh it loads for about 1 second and then says problem loading page.
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Every time SR is down TOR mail seems to function properly. Then SR comes online and TOR mail is down.
It makes me sad all day.
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can not get on right now. Got on 16 hours ago.
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Be patient and diligent. I took care of my business for the day, so I will sign off in hopes that one of you having trouble can sign on. My old version of Tor seemed to connect and browse faster than the new one before the drama. The Tor update has been more reliable to get to the login screen ever since.
Make sure you give it something like 4 goes at it, before you use a new identity. I have been opening two tabs to attempt to get to the login, then close out one of 'em when I do. It has taken me two or three attempts, and sometimes two or three identities, but it has worked nonetheless. No where near as fast as I was experiencing, but still reliable. Don't fret...I have faith in all of you being able to log on.
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Do any of you ever check the updates from DPR on the 1st page? Christ.
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Still no luck! :/ Sort of got on this morn, logged in and went to see our messages then problem loading page :( all its been since!
Good luck DPR and co! Hope you kick the hackers butts! ^_^
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^ ^My thoughts exactly. Im just taking this whole situation with a grain of salt. Im just happy there is progress at all. In a week from now this will all be a thing of the pass until the next issue come up. This is just how its going to be from time to time. Acceptance is the answer. Keep it up DPR. Cheers! 100
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UPDATE (05/03/2013 0545 UTC): The attacks have been coming non-stop since my last update.
No wonder, not even the login page all freaking day long. When is this gonna end???
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I just logged in successfully so it's up for the moment at least.
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UPDATE (05/03/2013 0545 UTC): The attacks have been coming non-stop since my last update.
No wonder, not even the login page all freaking day long. When is this gonna end???
I am not trying to start any shit, but...don't just post shit too bitch about post it all. Because that is typical ignorant bullshit right there you did.
The attacks have been coming non-stop since my last update. We've been able to keep the site open more than half the time with only minor issues such as limited image uploading for vendors. Every hour we are making progress and I am feeling much more confident that we will come out on top within the next few days. Still, expect some unannounced down-time here and there.
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I am noticing RAW HTML data on the browser page atfer a successful login - which is strange that the Style sheet is now missing, which can happen when a dynamic site gets messed up. By dynamic I mean using a Database to serve the page components such as HTML, CSS etc.
Anyone else?
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timing out again today. seems kinda normal now:p
Dpr always comes through for us. just keep trying and you'll get through eventually
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I am noticing RAW HTML data on the browser page atfer a successful login - which is strange that the Style sheet is now missing, which can happen when a dynamic site gets messed up. By dynamic I mean using a Database to serve the page components such as HTML, CSS etc.
Anyone else?
I have been. Past 10 mins or so.
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I keep getting these array dumps when I visit the site... EA:
[GATEWAY_INTERFACE]
[DOCUMENT_ROOT]
[SERVER_SOFTWARE]
[SERVER_ADDR]
[SERVER_PORT]
[SERVER_NAME]
[HTTP_HOST]
[HTTP_USER_AGENT]
Somewhat worrying... hope this doesn't fall into the wrong hands!
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I am not trying to start any shit, but...don't just post shit too bitch about post it all.
Why can't I gripe? Who's gonna take away my right to gripe if i want to? Not youi, not anybody. I mean, you just posted griping about the griping I posted.
Kinda makes your head spin. I won't post anymore griping, or about griping, or about griping about griping, or...
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I am noticing RAW HTML data on the browser page atfer a successful login - which is strange that the Style sheet is now missing, which can happen when a dynamic site gets messed up. By dynamic I mean using a Database to serve the page components such as HTML, CSS etc.
Anyone else?
Yea bro me too. Just got a $500 dollar money pack, figures. I have been able to get in all day just till the last couple hours. I'm about ready to summon a demon to rape this DOS'er. What scares me is when it is up it takes over 12 hours to trade pack for coins find what your looking for, get pgpkey then order and hope your coin isn't worth 40 dollars when your done.
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I just got in. Just be patient with the clicking boys and girls.
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Thanks DPR
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I am not trying to start any shit, but...don't just post shit too bitch about post it all.
Why can't I gripe? Who's gonna take away my right to gripe if i want to? Not youi, not anybody. I mean, you just posted griping about the griping I posted.
Kinda makes your head spin. I won't post anymore griping, or about griping, or about griping about griping, or...
I get what you tried to do there, however. If you had comprehension skills you understand that what I was trying to say was that. Don't just post part of what DPR said. You misinformed people by doing so. That was not the entire post. That's shitty to do. I don't give a fuck you can bitch and gripe all you want. These people are trying to get things done here so you can do your thing. And you wanna take a snippit and run with it. I may be an asshole for speaking my mind, but. I'll be damned if I let ya sit there and do that shit.
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5/3/13 759 pm
The Silk Road is down for maintenance. We will get the site back up asap. Thank you for your patience.
More information can be found here: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=151563.0
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I'm just getting pretty consistant error pages, I realize that the page is down, just thought I would post what I am seeing in case others are seeing the same thing. Help put the mind at ease a little...its not just you haha. DPR and his crew come through every time, I have faith they will again. I'm just gonna chill tonight and check back tomorrow sometime. Here goes my first blue defqon ever. have a sweet weekend everyone. Peace. 8)
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
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I think they're getting hit hard now.
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
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I think they're getting hit hard now.
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
same error here
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I'm just getting pretty consistant error pages
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
Yeah i'm getting the same. Will try again tomorrow, hopefully it'll be back up then ;D
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Good god people...
Relax for fuck sake...
8)
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I'm just getting pretty consistant error pages
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
Yeah i'm getting the same. Will try again tomorrow, hopefully it'll be back up then ;D
Diddo. I think I'll just hold off till Monday though. Hopefully others take a small break. Give them time to work over the weekend.
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I think the error is a good sign, actually. An error page instead of just a connection timeout means that the server is failing gracefully. It's a visible sign of the progress that DPR and crew are making behind the scenes to withstand and/or recover from this attack.
An analogy: You haven't seen your friend in a long time, and you're getting worried. You go to his place and knock on the door. Consider the two following results:
1. Your friend talks through the door and tells you that he's super-sick right now and he doesn't want to open the door and breathe his horrible germs on you.
2. There is no response.
Which would you prefer?
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So what is the plan? We can not continue doing business like this. Can we get another way to connect with our vendors? I am unable to finalize an order for a loved vendor. We must come up with a better way to communicate, vendors and customers while this site is down (which it is as I type this). I have no contact info on my 2 favorite vendors and I need to get in touch with them. Any suggestions? Should I create a post with the vendor's name and simply ask him for his email or what? How do I explain I CAN NOT finalize for him! This breaks my heart.
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If you can't reach the site, chances are that he can't either. I'm sure he completely understands that it's not your fault that you can't finalize.
EDIT: Oh, and I think the SR staff usually put all count-downs on hold during extended downtimes, so there's no need to worry about anything auto-finalizing while the site is down, either.
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It's interesting to see how this affects the btc rate, the more this unfolds and other attacks on exchanges too it seems fairly clear the main motive is to try to bring down the rate.
So my best advice is not to panic, the attacker can't keep it up forever and I have absolute faith in DPR and team that things will return to normal and we will be safer in future because of this. 8)
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I am not worried about Auto Finalizing. I am worried about my vendor not getting paid.
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I am not worried about Auto Finalizing. I am worried about my vendor not getting paid.
Damn that's noble. +1 Karma
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Indeed! +1
shunyata-
Much as I hope that my customers understand that some delay in shipment/order processing is inevitable as we experience these site attacks, so do I as a vendor understand that delays in finalization are bound to occur, and are completely outside the control of either party. I wouldn't even hold it against someone particularly for not checking for a full day or 2, given everything that's been happening. That being said, it was quite heartwarming to watch the flood of orders being finalized the last time the site came up after being completely down for 2 days.
Good vendors and customers alike will maintain their relationships through this time of trouble! <3
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I am not worried about Auto Finalizing. I am worried about my vendor not getting paid.
I know, I was just throwing that out there because it's another thing some people worry about during downtimes. I figured that I'd mention it as long as we were talking about finalizing.
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I am not worried about Auto Finalizing. I am worried about my vendor not getting paid.
pretty sure most vendors use a backup address, so I'd sleep easy on that.. ;)
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Reddit forums are all over this latest attack....cod help us!
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I'm glad we were all able to stay clam through this whole process.
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[–]redvinig 30 points 6 hours ago
We were supposed to stay clam?! I've been staying oyster this whole time!
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[–]gwern 8 points 4 hours ago
I tried to, but it just gave me a haddock reading the update threads.
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[–]kirkkommander 5 points 2 hours ago
We mussel never give up!
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[–]AManNoPlanNoCanal 5 points 2 hours ago
halibut we don't have another pun thread?
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[–]hail_eris_23 4 points 1 hour ago
you BASStards just won't give up on the fish puns!
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[–]Eezus 4 points 54 minutes ago
I think they are all being kinda shellfish...
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[–]hail_eris_23 4 points 41 minutes ago
Plus, these jokes are really starting to flounder...
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[–]osnapitsjoeyWHAT IS THIS 1 point 1 minute ago
something something fish pun
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[–]SepmoNBad attitude will get you banned! 2 points 1 hour ago
Don't hold your baited breath.
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I just want to finalize quickly for my vendor, he got my order out super fast with all the site problems so I want to return the favor.
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at least you got your order. last I saw mine was processing so I dont know if my vendor even got it
sigh
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I am giving out hugs and +1's! ;D
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I keep getting these array dumps when I visit the site... EA:
[GATEWAY_INTERFACE]
[DOCUMENT_ROOT]
[SERVER_SOFTWARE]
[SERVER_ADDR]
[SERVER_PORT]
[SERVER_NAME]
[HTTP_HOST]
[HTTP_USER_AGENT]
Somewhat worrying... hope this doesn't fall into the wrong hands!
Any update on this? You're not the only one who's mentioned it.
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To the post asking 'What will we do'?
Bro this site goes through this off and on every so many mnths, not the attack but issues, were the LARGEST BM on TOR, Im sure after last Hit of the DOS, not DDOS BTW, Im sure DPR is upgrading everything he can and hiring or bringing on whoever he can trust, who knws, but the man works hard,him and the whole DPR team, Allotof people probley would of said FUCK ALL THIS SHIT by now, having to due what he does to keep this site a float, i mean of course he gets millions x 10 im sure but still they are always on call..
And there are other market places, and supose new one to come, I dont see it being 'DISLOYAL' AS SOME SAY even u cant get your drugs or meds some ppl need or get sick from another site like BMR, I would only use vendors there from here and no new guys, if so if they wont let me stay in escrow even with my perfect SR stats and thousands iv spent with no issues, thn fuck it, i will never FE for no one iv never done business with before, SO its a good idea for vendors Imo TO have thir stuff on BMR at least there, im still up in the air bout atlantise, If i use it, i will NEVER use their own encryption device thingy they have..
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For any of you that use the torbrowser and updated and said oh it works wonderful now. Well, I got the torbrowser the other day because I was tired of going to my flashdrive. And I did not do an update and it worked and still works fine. I mean the site is down, but that update was bad news for you.
Had you been active in the forums a couple months ago you would have know that, that was a potential virus right there kids. Take care. =)
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So, an IP address came up and was seen by a lot of people on an SR error page earlier - I and presumably hundreds of others know what it was and the web host that owns that IP.
Is this cause for concern? Does it have anything to do with the fact that the site is showing "We could not process your request".
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I just want to finalize quickly for my vendor, he got my order out super fast with all the site problems so I want to return the favor.
Don't sweat, but it does show how great this community is overall...vendors worried about getting orders out and customers worrying about paying. I'd +1 but I cannot, haha. Either way, I'm assuming as soon as you can finalize will be quick enough for your vendor :).
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I could use a hug...and a hit
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so how do I downgrade after upgrading the TOR browser?
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I could use a hug...and a hit
I gave ya a +1 and here's the hug. Should have some nice hash from LTC (phenomenal medical marijuana vendor) tomorrow, stop by! ;D
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im too afraid to even transfer my coins to sr. think im gonna use bmr...sorry dpr. maybe when stuff cools down a bit
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I as well saw the page with the HTTP HOST information. It basically had my TOR IP, and then the IP of the HTTP host. I actually took that IP, ran a port scan on it and found that port 22 (SSH) and port 443 (HTTPS) were open. I went ahead dropped the IP in a regular browser, put https:// before it and then that 403 Forbidden (nginx) message appeared. The information also showed the internal folder structure of the website for example (var\www\****\*****) It was deeply concerning at first but honestly I think the IP address of one of the many reverse proxies were revealed. I researched what nginx is and found the following :
"nginx (pronounced "engine x") is an open source web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage. It is licensed under a BSD-like license and it runs on Unix, Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Microsoft Windows."
So it is possible that all that was leaked was one of the many reverse proxy servers that are used through tor to get to the eventual final destination. I really do hope that was what it was. I was literally getting the same 403 forbidden message that I get sometimes through tor when having issues accessing the road, except this was through internet explorer and hitting the revealead web ip.
I really hope this isn't a government attack that is trying to extract server info/ip through and advanced hacking method. It is probably possible.
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so how do I downgrade after upgrading the TOR browser?
Shrug..if you got the hiv, you already got it. I mean you could delete it and redownload the bundle I suppose. But, as stated, if you got it. You got it. scrub everything or, reformat maybe.
You may not have been infected. I just know what I read. I do not rely on the torbrowser. Perhaps if you did not use it anymore and went too another means of access. Shrug. I am a fan of Liberte Linux personally.
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im too afraid to even transfer my coins to sr. think im gonna use bmr...sorry dpr. maybe when stuff cools down a bit
I sent an undisclosed ammount to my sr wallet earlier today. Went through fine.
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what is BMR?
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what is BMR?
Black market reloaded
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what is BMR?
Black Market Reloaded, like a crappy version of SR.
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I upped a bit of btc too. Made some purchases, even got to FE for my vendor.
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Damn........ why cant i get on!!!! :'(
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Damn........ why cant i get on!!!! :'(
Read page 1
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I as well saw the page with the HTTP HOST information. It basically had my TOR IP, and then the IP of the HTTP host. I actually took that IP, ran a port scan on it and found that port 22 (SSH) and port 443 (HTTPS) were open. I went ahead dropped the IP in a regular browser, put https:// before it and then that 403 Forbidden (nginx) message appeared. The information also showed the internal folder structure of the website for example (var\www\****\*****) It was deeply concerning at first but honestly I think the IP address of one of the many reverse proxies were revealed. I researched what nginx is and found the following :
"nginx (pronounced "engine x") is an open source web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage. It is licensed under a BSD-like license and it runs on Unix, Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Microsoft Windows."
So it is possible that all that was leaked was one of the many reverse proxy servers that are used through tor to get to the eventual final destination. I really do hope that was what it was. I was literally getting the same 403 forbidden message that I get sometimes through tor when having issues accessing the road, except this was through internet explorer and hitting the revealead web ip.
I really hope this isn't a government attack that is trying to extract server info/ip through and advanced hacking method. It is probably possible.
If we're seeing the same address then HTTPS has now been shut, but it's still got SSH open.
I'm concerned actually :-\
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I have to say, this is quite nerve racking. All the speculation almost makes it worse. Time to get off Tor and relax.. Wish my best to DPR and the staff in getting this site back up and in running condition.
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If the ACTUAL ip address of SR's web server popped up then these outages won't matter it will only be a matter of days before he is arrested and this site is shut down for good so that is what you all need to worry about now.
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MDUK check your PM, trying to see if we were both hitting the same IP. If they both are different then it would be less likely that what we were seeing was actually the IP address of the webserver. I am really concerned...I just put in an order for 100 g's mdma from dutch trade and it was still processing.
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its not like I could get on again after i downloaded it
plus, I am on a mac. Hopefully no harm done
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For any of you that use the torbrowser and updated and said oh it works wonderful now. Well, I got the torbrowser the other day because I was tired of going to my flashdrive. And I did not do an update and it worked and still works fine. I mean the site is down, but that update was bad news for you.
Had you been active in the forums a couple months ago you would have know that, that was a potential virus right there kids. Take care. =)
Just curious, as I wasn't active on the forum a few months ago, how come the update was a potential virus ? I downloaded my version of tor of their website about two months ago so does that mean I have that copy you speak of? hmm.... ???
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Unless there is an official link from tor to update ( there has not been and people have been), then you do not do it.
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i dont think it IS a virus, I think I just downloaded the wrong version before
release date was APril 5th. If its that version, its from teh to org, then it should be ok
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i dont think it IS a virus, I think I just downloaded the wrong version before
release date was APril 5th. If its that version, its from teh to org, then it should be ok
As I stated in parentheses. It was what I read. I will also state this again. I just downloaded the torbrowser yesterday so that I could follow the forums because I use liberete linux. I was able to get on the road with no nearly no problems the past day and a half using the browser. I did not update. I just downloaded and ran. I even FE today twice to my vendor with the browser. I did not update. It was fast and nearly flawless for a day and a half. I was giving you a heads up because I READ It in the forums when I first joined the road.
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Back online!
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Me too!
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OP updated
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wow. thanks DPR, hang in there
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Thanks for fighting the good fight, DPR! Much Love!
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Hopefully he gives up soon, anxious to get back to work.
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OP updated
Thank you DPR. It is unfortunate that you had to post that you updated your OP. People should know to just go look at it.
Good looking out chief.
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I keep getting the error page. I want to see if my order went out today...dammit. I was hoping it went out yesterday, but it ended up not getting sent. If it doesn't go today cause some asshole decided it was a good idea to attack SR, I'm gonna be fucking livid. I was soooo looking forward to enjoying my favorite thing this weekend after one of the longest weeks of work I've ever had.
Who the fuck would attack SR? Why would anyone even do that? Who's getting hurt here? I understand attacking child porn sites but SR? WTF?
Is there a new URL or something? Or is it just down?
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It's not you, I am errored out now too.
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I have to say, great job DPR, you do a great job with this, hopefully this low life will stop eventually
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I just was able to log in to check my messages. I'll jump off so someone else can hopefully get on? Hadn't worked for the previous 8 hours or so I bet...
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And may the ship of drugs sail onward...
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keep getting the error page!
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Ridiculous............ Do you guys think that this will ever come to an end??? Obviously this isnt going to stop!!! These people are too persistant.... there is something they want to accomplish... if this were temporary, it would have subsided, at least that is my opinion. I believe it is time for plan B, let us see what that is DPR, and also thank you for trying to protect what should already be rightfully ours...A CHOICE!!!
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is it hard to track someone down?
I mean, we use tor for anonimity...but....CAN we track this scumball down?
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Ridiculous............ Do you guys think that this will ever come to an end??? Obviously this isnt going to stop!!! These people are too persistant.... there is something they want to accomplish... if this were temporary, it would have subsided, at least that is my opinion. I believe it is time for plan B, let us see what that is DPR, and also thank you for trying to protect what should already be rightfully ours...A CHOICE!!!
To your point on choice, is why it will, eventually, come to an end. DPR stated the attacker must have prepared for this attack for a long time and has fleshed out a strategy to counteract measures DPR and crew would take to combat. But no matter how long it lasts, or how much effort this attacker wants to put forth, it will all succumb to the will of the people. SR represents a choice many people do not have, and a choice many people want. The attacker intrinsically must not understand this, no matter if hes motivated by money or ideology. Even at the worst, if for some god forsaken reason it brings SR to its knees, it will rise from the ashes like a phoenix. Even if LE is behind this, or steps in while SR is weakened due to this. It will not matter. Even if TOR developers cooperate with LE, it will not matter. The floodgates have been opened. A precedent has been set. Pandora's box has been opened with no way of it ever being closed. Weak-minded individuals like those in LE and this attacker will never realize this, and some day if the light ever clicks in their head will realize how futile these attempts will ultimately be.
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Why do we all assume it's a guy? Just sayin. =p....Cause I loveeee the ladies!
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Why do we all assume it's a guy? Just sayin. =p....Cause I loveeee the ladies!
Hahaha very very true.
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I pick the worst god damn time to order shit. Every one should chill out though, unless you're sick. If you're withdrawing, I'm sorry bro. Realistically you have to assume that DPR(or the SR crew if you would prefer) has nearly unlimited financial resources. This is his lively hood as well as a political statement, do you think he's just going to let it flop? I assure you that this time is being used constructively to combat the 0-day exploits on Tor. The idea that these issues are not going to subside is ludicrous and demonstrate a very big lack of faith in humanity.
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Good luck
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UPDATE (05/05/2013 0100 UTC)
DPR posting from the future.
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I'm on and its working pretty fast.
Thanks DPR and crew.
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UPDATE (05/05/2013 0100 UTC)
DPR posting from the future.
nice catch didn't even notice.
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i keep getting error screen ;(
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I'm on and its working pretty fast.
Thanks DPR and crew.
Lies!!!!!!!! =(
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i keep getting error screen ;(
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i keep getting error screen ;(
^ what you be sayins!
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To the post asking 'What will we do'?
Bro this site goes through this off and on every so many mnths, not the attack but issues, were the LARGEST BM on TOR, Im sure after last Hit of the DOS, not DDOS BTW, Im sure DPR is upgrading everything he can and hiring or bringing on whoever he can trust, who knws, but the man works hard,him and the whole DPR team, Allotof people probley would of said FUCK ALL THIS SHIT by now, having to due what he does to keep this site a float, i mean of course he gets millions x 10 im sure but still they are always on call..
And there are other market places, and supose new one to come, I dont see it being 'DISLOYAL' AS SOME SAY even u cant get your drugs or meds some ppl need or get sick from another site like BMR, I would only use vendors there from here and no new guys, if so if they wont let me stay in escrow even with my perfect SR stats and thousands iv spent with no issues, thn fuck it, i will never FE for no one iv never done business with before, SO its a good idea for vendors Imo TO have thir stuff on BMR at least there, im still up in the air bout atlantise, If i use it, i will NEVER use their own encryption device thingy they have..
I was just on the Atlantis site, browsing through all the pages there pretty quickly. If this was TOR related, that site would be down also. This is directly related to SR.
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I have not and will not go anywhere else.
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My own uninformed guess is organized crime is the source of the current problems vs LE. I am surprised no one else has mentioned this possibility. For example, Russia has a surplus of very smart programmers in addition to having some of the world's most sophisticated, ruthless, and cash rich criminal gangs.
SR has created a highly profitable, anonymous, and unregulated market. Add in the huge barriers to LE and it would seem to be a tempting target for those types. It also seems plausible that they funded/control Atlantis and are now attacking SR for the obvious competitive benefits.
Pure uninformed speculation, although the Atlantis admin's name is "Vladimir" and he did write "Dead Pirate Roberts" in his statement ;-)
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i keep getting error screen ;(
^ what you be sayins!
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
what it say :o
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i keep getting error screen ;(
^ what you be sayins!
Sorry, an error was encountered.
We could not process your request. (ext)
what it say :o
Wamp wamp
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I really wish Litecoin would stop this crap. If they have to stoop to these lows, I will NEVER use them! I don't care about the potential money to be made. Assholes
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I really wish Litecoin would stop this crap. If they have to stoop to these lows, I will NEVER use them! I don't care about the potential money to be made. Assholes
I tired to mine them for a bit. My comp is shit though, along with my gpu. So, ya.
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I have not and will not go anywhere else.
+1
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I got this
[Fri May 3 23:22:02 2013] Invalid Destination Hostname - One of your applications tried to establish a connection through Tor to "www.dkn255hz262ypmii.onion", which Tor does not recognize as a valid hostname. Please check your application's configuration.
but its related to posting on to this board..
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just be patient guys. DPR and his crew should fix this. have faith.
after they do, DPR will say that SR is just now stronger than ever.
he is learning from the attacker as what he said previously.
if the attacker attacks the other sites i doubt they would be able to put up a fight
not like how DPR and SR is doing.
we have to wait until this war is over and we can go shopping again
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11:39.... a window. I got on!!!!!!!!!!!
I quick checked my order...still processing...messages not read. I doubt my vendor could get on
but I just did. Yay DPR
hope it becomes stable
so I doubt I will have anything for Cinco de Me....my birthday...but lets see
Ok.....
to the left of the address bar in the tor browser....the onion symbol...its flashing "download tor browser bundle update"
but in the preference, I checked...my tor i the most current
WHY is that flashing?
is this the problem?
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I'm just lost for words at this point. It was just working fine earlier this morning, now for the last few hours I've been getting errors and time outs. I just got the login page followed by a time out. I'm just not seeing the point. DPR and the team are clearly not going to cave in to this pussy and people are not going to give up shopping here. I just don't get it what's the fucking point >:( excuse my french it's the only way I can express my frustration since choking the attacker isn't an option.
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If the culprit has been identified and there is some sort of retaliation effort, could someone please point me in the right direction? I have quite a few botnets I'd happily unleash.
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sugarfree11
I am with you. I am not a violent person, but i am here to buy meds for my late grandfather cancer group! and i know it may sound crazy but i am sure most of the community will +1 me for wanting to literally break this guys fingers. Like they used to do in vegas if you got caught cheating in the casinos when was mob ran:) the old hammer to hand! sorry if sounds messed up but look at all this mfer or mfers is doing to us! i have lost $100s with btc dropping! i mean i will have less than $50 in my account by time i can get in! its bs.
I give my deepest respect to DPR and crew for hard work but for prolonged time i wish they hedged our funds especially when btc has dropped like $50 each in last 2-3days!
well hope to get on soon. I got biggest tease! it loaded i signed in and saw my messages then froze and got timedout!
I am sure i get +1 alot on those thoughts from my SR brothers and sisters
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Got on for 10 minutes ....started returning messages and confirming order...and bam down again
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Thank you DPR and staff for all the hard work you are doing to get the site back up. I've been trying all day to log in and getting the error message. Frustrating but I'm patience and things will soon be back - keeping the faith!
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:'(
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Just want to say THANK YOU to DPR and staff. You guys are AWESOME!
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Who gives a shit if you guys can't get your drugs for a few days? This is more of a movement and an attack on our philosophy. Secure the site first. Let staff work. Quit trying to login for a few days. Half the DDOS is probably users trying to log in.
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Well said Mr. Busey
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If the culprit has been identified and there is some sort of retaliation effort, could someone please point me in the right direction? I have quite a few botnets I'd happily unleash.
Send the botnet army after Litecoin. Let's see how they like it. They are the ones with the incentive to do this
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Hopefully he gives up soon, anxious to get back to work.
This. Spice must flow!
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Who gives a shit if you guys can't get your drugs for a few days? This is more of a movement and an attack on our philosophy. Secure the site first. Let staff work. Quit trying to login for a few days. Half the DDOS is probably users trying to log in.
I couldn't agree with you more.
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Guys and Gals,
Please relax and stay calm. Your money is safe in the SR, your orders are safe. DDOS simply means taking the site offline for a day, and in this case the attacker has set up many servers and comps to do a pretty big attack. DDOS attacks do end btw, and then you will be able to access the site. Just refrain from trying to login until DPR says it is ok, and I assure you they will. Useless traffic going to the site further complicates things.
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Shit is up, yo. 8)
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We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender ;)
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Sr,s back online folks ;)
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Finally just placed an order.
Thanks dpr and team.
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wb :)
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It isn't up for me. I don't know why people wouldn't try as DPR hasn't altered his statement about it being up sometimes.
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not up here either!
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Just proposing a scenario here...
The attacker has this thread open auto-refreshing and as soon as someone says they can get in the type of attack changes?
Even if that is mostly paranoia talking. I do miss SR but I will not go anywhere else! Viva la Revolution'
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I think for this market to survive, it must have good allies and have no traitors among them. Hope the principles of freedom bind them together.
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I have come to the conclusion that this is wall street insiders wanting to buy btc low and sell high. Lol
Libby
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It isn't up for me. I don't know why people wouldn't try as DPR hasn't altered his statement about it being up sometimes.
I know right! He's never said we shouldn't try.
I had it about half an hour ago, but only got the login screen before I lost it.
Speculation: It might be a police operation to take the site down, considering DPR's sentiments about them having prepared for a long time.
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UPDATE (05/05/2013 0100 UTC): We're still doing battle with this attacker. It seems he has prepared for this for a long time and has many tactics. We continue to use every resource at our disposal to overcome this situation. Thank you for your patience.
You keep saying 'he'. How do you know the sex of the attacker?!
Keep up the hard work!
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UPDATE (05/05/2013 0100 UTC): We're still doing battle with this attacker. It seems he has prepared for this for a long time and has many tactics. We continue to use every resource at our disposal to overcome this situation. Thank you for your patience.
You keep saying 'he'. How do you know the sex of the attacker?!
Because it is an inside job like 9/11? LOL.
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It seems like this started not long after CISPA was passed in the US. I haven't read the whole bill, but it doesn't seem unlikely that having it passed would throw some money towards government operations against online "threats' or illicit activities. The US govt has been foaming at the mouth for silkroad, and its pretty easy to get funds allotted for individual causes whenever a bill is passed. But at the same time, if they had the capacity to do it before, I don't think the price tag would have held them back, Who knows though.. I have no idea what the cost (in dollars) of such a massive attack would be
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ralphwaldo - more importantly, what would it be worth in btc?
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UPDATE (05/05/2013 0100 UTC): We're still doing battle with this attacker. It seems he has prepared for this for a long time and has many tactics. We continue to use every resource at our disposal to overcome this situation. Thank you for your patience.
Wow, they literally must have no life
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UPDATE (05/05/2013 0100 UTC): We're still doing battle with this attacker. It seems he has prepared for this for a long time and has many tactics. We continue to use every resource at our disposal to overcome this situation. Thank you for your patience.
Give em hell DPR!
"Hello, My name is Inigo Montonya.. You killed my website... Prepare to die!"
;)
GE
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pay the cunt his money
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Keep up the good fight man.
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I was able to get in for enough time to finalize a few orders and get out. If you are patient, it is possible to get in if you need to. But if you don't, I'd recommend leaving it be for a day or two to let the dust settle.
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It seems like this started not long after CISPA was passed in the US. I haven't read the whole bill, but it doesn't seem unlikely that having it passed would throw some money towards government operations against online "threats' or illicit activities. The US govt has been foaming at the mouth for silkroad, and its pretty easy to get funds allotted for individual causes whenever a bill is passed. But at the same time, if they had the capacity to do it before, I don't think the price tag would have held them back, Who knows though.. I have no idea what the cost (in dollars) of such a massive attack would be
It would take an insignificant amount of funds when talking in terms of governments. The US doesn't do shit like this with out taking credit. A head line of "internet drug smuggling domestic terrorists defeated" would sell too well. Most likely culprits are still financial interests(competitors, litecoin, bitcoin price manipulation, etc), talented 12 year old, and who the fuck knows else.
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How can they (meaning DPR team) make the attacks stop??! I mean if they get the identity of the attacker(s), you could always beat them to an inch of their lives or further. Or just do a mexican cartel job on their asses. But I for one dont really think they will get any irl people connected to this attack, I think its LE @ work, trying to screw with the rebel drug users of the world. And yes, i have my tinfoil hat ready ;)
I hope DPR and his team manage to push the invaders out on the plank, and down to the sharks. Keep up the good work.
Never give up!
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It seems like this started not long after CISPA was passed in the US. I haven't read the whole bill, but it doesn't seem unlikely that having it passed would throw some money towards government operations against online "threats' or illicit activities. The US govt has been foaming at the mouth for silkroad, and its pretty easy to get funds allotted for individual causes whenever a bill is passed. But at the same time, if they had the capacity to do it before, I don't think the price tag would have held them back, Who knows though.. I have no idea what the cost (in dollars) of such a massive attack would be
It would take an insignificant amount of funds when talking in terms of governments. The US doesn't do shit like this with out taking credit. A head line of "internet drug smuggling domestic terrorists defeated" would sell too well. Most likely culprits are still financial interests(competitors, litecoin, bitcoin price manipulation, etc), talented 12 year old, and who the fuck knows else.
I think they wouldnt take credit until they have fully won, and the pirates heads have been put on spikes at the white house or such.....
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Wish all the best for DPR and people who are fighting against this fucking attacker.
Why just not live and let live, goddamn. It's not taking down SR you will stop the drugs market..instead just doing things worst, people will go out and buy any shit they will find instead of buying safe drugs online.
Take your time DPR and defeat the foe! (despite my orders are stuck ;)
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Just post the attacker's physical address. Nothing more need be said. ;)
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http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=155554.0
4. 5. 2013 = THE DAY WHEN "ONE way to SILK ROAD" ENDED?
It's not ended. It's simply a contingency plan in case the forum gets attacked again. If anything, it is going discourage further attacks on the forum since it now appears to be futile to attempt to block communication between vendors and users.
Those URLs that could replace silkroadvb5piz3r.onion have been around for ages as a backup in case something went wrong. That announcement is not the death-knell of SR, it just puts everyone in an even stronger position vs. the attacker. Some of the updates in this thread sound WAY more ominous to me, and it seems like we're in a better position now than when site would be solidly down for "at least a few days" (which of course never happened).
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Every time this node spikes in traffic it seems to coincide with SR being heavily attacked...
https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/D0236B1908B3CC686DB0A361F4931073A25793F1
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it's back up!!! ;D
...damn, managed to login, and now getting timed out!... this shows DPR is hard at work, keep battling!
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Woot! Nice! Now lets everyone not try to login or even load the main page. Lets let the people do their work.
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I must say after I either receive my last piece of mail or not, I'm calling it quits until I see consistent results of up time for a number of months. I still haven't received anything (which is also irritating) and I can't stand the thought of not being able to pay my vendor when or if I do. I've never even allowed anyone in real life to front me anything even was offered to a few times, I always pay first. These are sad times for sure.
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Woot! Nice! Now lets everyone not try to login or even load the main page. Lets let the people do their work.
Your right bro. That just jams the shit up even more. To bad we couldn't set some time frames of when to get on, say east coasters this hour to this hour west coast ect, certain areas of europe. That way traffic would be limited, but nobody would do it. I wish I knew more about computers, SR staff must not be sleeping much. Good luck guys,
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Woot! Nice! Now lets everyone not try to login or even load the main page. Lets let the people do their work.
Your right bro. That just jams the shit up even more. To bad we couldn't set some time frames of when to get on, say east coasters this hour to this hour west coast ect, certain areas of europe. That way traffic would be limited, but nobody would do it. I wish I knew more about computers, SR staff must not be sleeping much. Good luck guys,
I very much doubt that legitimate use is that significant as a proportion of the traffic.
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Woot! Nice! Now lets everyone not try to login or even load the main page. Lets let the people do their work.
Your right bro. That just jams the shit up even more. To bad we couldn't set some time frames of when to get on, say east coasters this hour to this hour west coast ect, certain areas of europe. That way traffic would be limited, but nobody would do it. I wish I knew more about computers, SR staff must not be sleeping much. Good luck guys,
I very much doubt that legitimate use is that significant as a proportion of the traffic.
I know, but a bunch of people trying to log, can't help.
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Hey, at least the bitcoin seems to be recovering somewhat. :D
[/silverlining]
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I just got back in peeps. May be a quick window for you!
Edit :first attempt today! Not one of the constant clickers!
Peace
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Man I hate this attacker wank!
Thanks DPR
I am defo not giving up as thats what this bastard wants
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For as large as an attack, Dread is doing pretty much awesome. 1 day turn arounds? Obviously Dread is more skilled at this, so they might as well give up! Keep it going Dread!
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I was able to get in briefly last night to check to see if my order went, and to send a not so nice message to my vendor asking why it hadn't gone out. I know he saw the order and had an opportunity to get my address, as he replied to me and said that he would guarantee that my order would get here today. I'm hoping he was smart enough to get my address then, and get my package ready to be shipped before SR went down. If not, I certainly will never be purchasing anything from him ever again. I'm hoping that he just couldn't mark the order "in transit" due to the SR DDOS attack.
In any case, I haven't been able to get in since last night and I'm anxious to see if he replied (I'm sure he hasn't, being as SR has been down consistently for more than a day).
It will certainly suck to have my order and additional BTC tied up for a while, but its nothing compared to some vendors and even other buyers on SR I'm sure. I feel really bad for those who have thousands tied up on SR. Granted, my weekend will be much less enjoyable, but it won't fuck my life up at all...for others, that may not be the case.
I don't understand the motivations of some people honestly (specifically referring to the attackers of SR). If everyone had an open "Live and let live" attitude, this world would be a much better place.
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Knock these m-effers out, DPR! Bastards
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anyone logged onto SR atm, or is it completely unreachable again?
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anyone logged onto SR atm, or is it completely unreachable again?
Yeah, I'm in. I finalized 2 orders. Slow as hell. Lots of "problem loading page" errors. been trying all day
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I was, but I dont have any business to conduct until Monday, so I logged out and hopefully let someone get in who may need it more.
It was slow, timed out a couple of times. But I was in!
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Unreachable for me. I've been periodically trying for quite a while. Whoever is doing this, I really hope they get cancer...
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cannot get in.
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would be interesting as hell to know who this peace of shit is
needs quite some skill, funds and equipment to keep a DoS attac over such a long period, especially through tor
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I have not been able to get in since yesterday, and, like everyone else, would love to be able to check the status of some orders.
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needs quite some skill, funds and equipment to keep a DoS attac over such a long period, especially through tor
Who has these resources and equipment? Competitor? I don't think so. But if it's LE, why wouldn't they take down a more dangerous site like BMR? I mean they're still selling weapons. What the f*ck? Can't they just leave us dopers alone?
I was convinced that it was LE in the beginning but now I'm pretty sure it's either a university CIT project or someone trying to manipulate bitcoin value.
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needs quite some skill, funds and equipment to keep a DoS attac over such a long period, especially through tor
Who has these resources and equipment? Competitor? I don't think so. But if it's LE, why wouldn't they take down a more dangerous site like BMR? I mean they're still selling weapons. What the f*ck? Can't they just leave us dopers alone?
I was convinced that it was LE in the beginning but now I'm pretty sure it's either a university CIT project or someone trying to manipulate bitcoin value.
lets start a payback thread for these hackers to set an example
every vendor and user contribute funds or there best efforts to liquidate them.....we as a community have big resources
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Should have some SR friendly hacking freaks, and counter attack some random important sites. Mainly Banks, and LE sites, just for the sake of it........If i could, I would...But my thing is doctoring...
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needs quite some skill, funds and equipment to keep a DoS attac over such a long period, especially through tor
Who has these resources and equipment? Competitor? I don't think so. But if it's LE, why wouldn't they take down a more dangerous site like BMR? I mean they're still selling weapons. What the f*ck? Can't they just leave us dopers alone?
I was convinced that it was LE in the beginning but now I'm pretty sure it's either a university CIT project or someone trying to manipulate bitcoin value.
Its crazy you say that because when SR returned to service 2days ago bitcoin value dropped to almost 80$, now SR is down they are back up to 110+. But most ppl on the forums say SR has a small impact on Bitcoin value. :o
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I'm getting this weird page, not the error page, but the page is like tan... with a red outline of a box at the top.
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needs quite some skill, funds and equipment to keep a DoS attac over such a long period, especially through tor
Who has these resources and equipment? Competitor? I don't think so. But if it's LE, why wouldn't they take down a more dangerous site like BMR? I mean they're still selling weapons. What the f*ck? Can't they just leave us dopers alone?
I was convinced that it was LE in the beginning but now I'm pretty sure it's either a university CIT project or someone trying to manipulate bitcoin value.
Its crazy you say that because when SR returned to service 2days ago bitcoin value dropped to almost 80$, now SR is down they are back up to 110+. But most ppl on the forums say SR has a small impact on Bitcoin value. :o
There are quite a few rumors going around but no evidence. Some say it's LiteCoin but if the value of Bitcoin goes up when SR goes down then what's the point? Some say LE but then why not take down a more dangerous site like BMR? One person tried to insinuate it's a scam by DPR but that makes absolutely no sense.
Yeah we all like to talk about it. But what I'd really like to know is what, if anything, I can do to help SR? There is a thread (I didn't copy the link) that says we should all try setting up our clients to run as non-exit relays thus increasing the bandwidth available inside the network and making a ddos more difficult for the attacker. Will that work? I'm not sure, it seems to me that other sites are responding fast enough including the forum here. It seems pretty targeted to me. But I'm going to set mine up that way anyway in case there is some logic to it.
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trying to jump on to finalize one order and i cant seem to get through:(
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I was able to get in briefly last night to check to see if my order went, and to send a not so nice message to my vendor asking why it hadn't gone out. I know he saw the order and had an opportunity to get my address, as he replied to me and said that he would guarantee that my order would get here today. I'm hoping he was smart enough to get my address then, and get my package ready to be shipped before SR went down. If not, I certainly will never be purchasing anything from him ever again. I'm hoping that he just couldn't mark the order "in transit" due to the SR DDOS attack.
In any case, I haven't been able to get in since last night and I'm anxious to see if he replied (I'm sure he hasn't, being as SR has been down consistently for more than a day).
It will certainly suck to have my order and additional BTC tied up for a while, but its nothing compared to some vendors and even other buyers on SR I'm sure. I feel really bad for those who have thousands tied up on SR. Granted, my weekend will be much less enjoyable, but it won't fuck my life up at all...for others, that may not be the case.
I don't understand the motivations of some people honestly (specifically referring to the attackers of SR). If everyone had an open "Live and let live" attitude, this world would be a much better place.
Really guy? C'mon, don't be a dick to your vendor. He's got just as many problems getting on as you, AND he doesn't just have 1 person to interact with. If he says your package should arrive today, he's already sent it out and NOT marked it in transit leaving HIMSELF unprotected by escrow.
Besides, he has to get his 'Orders' page loaded up and print all the addresses. If he were to copy the addresses so he could have an 'offline copy' he would be breaking SR policy and putting YOU at a higher risk. You're complaining about him for following the rules and protecting you, and sent him a harassing message, wasting HIS time that he could be spending shipping out your order, or someone else's.
There's several more points I could make, but I'm not gonna argue with someone who obviously lacks the maturity or mental fortitude to comprehend his own ignorance. -1 to you sir.
[joke(sort of) ]
Besides, what's to say your vendor isn't a sociopath who now knows who you are and where you live, and who could quite possibly be filled with rage from this DOS and needs someone's head to smash in? You've just given him the perfect outlet for that rage. Look out the window at your neighbor. Could they be your vendor? I've heard of situations like that arising. Just pray you didn't order from TheTeflonDon! [/joke(sort of) ]
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All is good,logged in now,bit slow but its up people..
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I'm in as well, thank you DPR and crew!
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Got in as well. Disappointed to see my packages are still processing but as long as they arrive here by next weekend I'm happy.
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Progress is progress!
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FINALLY back on, but it seems to be moving faster than ever.
Think there will be another sale on because of this delay? :P
Also how can we expect the internal coin tumbler to work while the site is down? If I put in coins today and it goes down again tomorrow am I going to lose cash value or anything like that?
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got back online... yess!!!!!
go DPR!
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Now that its live, let's sick back eat some popcorn and watch BTC value decrease!! :)
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WooooHooooooooOOO
Thanks you good lord for pirates! Dreaddy ones especially! +1 for you DPR, and for your crew..
Amazingly nice to log on, quick as hell it was also, and see a msg from a vendor, sending a few freebees for past problems :D
Gooood Vibez,
And to you attackers; go dig urselfs down in a deeep hole. Or come my way, i have some salt loaded shotgunshells to spend on your asses.. The Dr can stich u right back up, then we can do it all over again, all day long!
Peace///DrKim
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WooooHooooooooOOO
Thanks you good lord for pirates! Dreaddy ones especially! +1 for you DPR, and for your crew..
Amazingly nice to log on, quick as hell it was also, and see a msg from a vendor, sending a few freebees for past problems :D
Gooood Vibez,
And to you attackers; go dig urselfs down in a deeep hole. Or come my way, i have some salt loaded shotgunshells to spend on your asses.. The Dr can stich u right back up, then we can do it all over again, all day long!
Peace///DrKim
+1 to that my friend!
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back in business :)
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trying to jump on to finalize one order and i cant seem to get through:(
Me too. I'd like to thank TheDANKBANK who, although SR connectivity was intermittent, was still able to got me some very nice Sour D CO2 extracted wax!
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The Road is loading really fast for me now, great job DPR, always have faith!
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silk road is available, cheers DPR!!!!! ;)
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It WAS going quickly for a little while. Now it's taking 5min to load a page, if at all. We're DDos'ing ourselves! lol
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It is running well for me at the moment. The forums weren't looking too great for a bit but now both are working well for the first time in a while. I hope it stays like this.
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Props DPR the sites working great for me, you and your staff are awesome.
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Great job DPR!
Have vendors upped prices alot or is there something not right with the SR pricing vs MtGox? £100/g sniff is now like £140!
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DPR----it really sunk in today what loosing SR would mean to my life. Some, many people see this place as a black market drug site.
I see it as my sanity in a fucking crazy world. As my pharmacy for real medicine, rather than the corporate killing shit. I see it as a bridge to my civil rights of freedom and self-determination!!
Never had a panic attack, I think I had one today!! Your site gave me back so much. Its paid for two of my kids college, in state college plan now growing interest--------its giving me back LSD, the fucking most introspective material in the universe, and its giving me a medium to learn and explore chemistry, biology, and neuroscience---not to mention state and federal laws---
Its giving me lasting relastionships, that will endure time. I have connections now that should last decades, even if this fades, the foot print is forever cast.
My hat off to you DPR for creating this world of possability!! For being moral enough to not let the kiddy fuckers in here, and brave enough to keep self protection an option!!
Your the Steve Jobs in your field, visionary, entrapaniuer, and wealthy bad ass, who has my utmost respect!!!
Blessing to you brother, on so many levels!
SR is working faster for me now than it ever has---not sure it will last, but at least enough time for vendors to send me my goods:}
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*clapping slowly* Well done mate, fair play!
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amazing, well done SR team. standing again, like a fortress.
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Today is good day :)
So pleased to log on this morning and there she is running faster than ever.
Excellent work DPR and team!
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If the site starts slowing down for you again, or you can't reach it, restart your TorBrowser.
Usually that's useless advice, but it actually helps this time.
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Respect...
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GIVE EM HELL!! Show them why YOU"RE the Dread Pirate Roberts! HIP HIP!! HOORAY!
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In like sin! Thanks DPR + gang, even if it's temporary...
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thank you, Crew!
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JOY! Much love and respect to DPR and his whole staff.
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Most things working fine, still not able to make new listings...
So much <3 guys! Keep it up!!! :D
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Nevermind! WE ARE FULL OPERATIONAL I REPEAT FULL MOTHERFUCKIN OPERATIONAL BLUE TEAM GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Great work SR Team!
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"UPDATE (05/04/2013 2120 UTC): The site is back up. I'm not going to say we are out of the woods yet, but unless something unexpected happens, we should remain up for the foreseeable future."
FUCK YEAH BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This baby doesnt sink! Must have been a lucky bottle of wine that you christened her with DPR..
Smart man.
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Was able to log in 15 minutes ago, but appears to be offline again. Since I have nothing important to order, I'll just wait until DPR and his team have fund a solution and go shopping then. We all know you're trying your best and I'm sure the road will be available 24/7 again in the next days
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runnin smooth:)
:-* DPR
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Yes..! We're up and running..!
DPR..!!!
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Feels good to be in again :D. Thanks Pirate!!
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thank you dpr and team.
Keep it up.
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Running super quick too - fastest I've known it to run.
Did the attacker end up doing us a favor? The fucking retard.
Good work DPR you the MAN - If I was at war I'd want you in the trenches with me dude 8)
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THANK YOU
You have come through for us again. Now I can order my medicine and then get back to teaching myself about Agorism and anarcho-capitalism.
You have expanded my world DPR. I bow in your general direction.
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Apparently things are fine since yesterday, i made some orders and msgs... Lets get back to our pharmacy :)
I love SR and happy endings ;D
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Thanks for all the work you're doing along with ur team.
You are a true revolutionary, DPR!
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YIPPIE!!!!
Thanks DPR... You Da Shizz :)
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lovely !:. it works like charm, since yesterday :) ... and i have been getting SR withdrawal symptoms, thanks for the cure - it's a lot faster now, too.
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Really guy? C'mon, don't be a dick to your vendor. He's got just as many problems getting on as you, AND he doesn't just have 1 person to interact with. If he says your package should arrive today, he's already sent it out and NOT marked it in transit leaving HIMSELF unprotected by escrow.
Besides, he has to get his 'Orders' page loaded up and print all the addresses. If he were to copy the addresses so he could have an 'offline copy' he would be breaking SR policy and putting YOU at a higher risk. You're complaining about him for following the rules and protecting you, and sent him a harassing message, wasting HIS time that he could be spending shipping out your order, or someone else's.
There's several more points I could make, but I'm not gonna argue with someone who obviously lacks the maturity or mental fortitude to comprehend his own ignorance. -1 to you sir.
My previous 100% vendor rating now stands at 99.4%, thanks to two people who didn't get their packages and who were pissed off because I took over a week to cancel their orders and refund their money. At the time I issued these refunds I was able to get on for 10-15 minutes a day to check my orders AND finalize any orders I received with my buyer account. The reason there was no communication was because I figured people wanted bitcoins first and explanations/apologies later.
In response I got this feedback:
thefrontierindex 1 of 5 Never came... No feedback.
Wolf119 3 of 5 Led me to believe for weeks they had shipped the order. Cancelled during resolution period. Big waste of time.
As an added bonus: both orders were for less than $20.
I've seen similar complaints in the feedback listings for other vendors, so I'm guessing I'm not the only one dealing with this.
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The only thing I'm after currently isn't listed, but it's still really nice to see the site up and running fast again. My hat is off to you DPR!
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thanks DPR and crew :)
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I really must thank all of the vendors who have to put up with BS from people ordering $20 worth of something. It must really be hard not to blow a gasket. Anyway, I've spent a ton and never complained or bitched to anyone. I have enough sense to realize that it's a blessing and a privilege to use SR. Anyway, thanks again to the vendors. To all you mindless idiots with your BIG $20 orders who moan and groan... do us all a favor and get lost.
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Back in business! I LOVE this place! DPR....My hats off to you and your crew. I can only imagine what it must feel like being the creator of something that has changed tens of thousands (if not more) lives. You have changed the way people good, honest people can do good, honest business in a safe, non "street" environment and people can find substances or items they have been searching for their whole lives and order it right to their doorstep now :). Thanks to you, the supplemented income I am making from your site is really helping my family and myself out. I will always be grateful for what we have here and always new you would come out on top :)
DPR, you and the rest of the crew ( I am assuming you can't do this ALL alone) are the BEST. HATS OFF!
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Congrats for winning the last battle!
DPR AND CREW <3
THe knights for the freedom on deepnet :)
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*Apples blue war paint*
FFFRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEDDDOOMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats in order for DPR and crew, hope they can get some sleep.
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Digital knights!!!
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I've discovered that increasing http keep-alive timeout seems to help make the connection stay solid longer, though it conks out a bit after a few hours, then comes back again. One of the posts further back reflecting on how important a part of their life SR has become, same applies to me. I haven't yet been able to gain the full benefits yet due to a somewhat busted financial situation but a couple weeks ago i got some bubble hash from the dam and man it was good to be stoned again after two months without.
Unfortunately on top of SR downtime here in BG the idiots in the government decided it would be ok to have 4 public holidays back to back and I've been delayed in getting funds out of bitstamp as well as it's basically been 6 straight days of holidays and banks mostly closed (my bank is one of the cool ones, the office just down the road is open 12/7 and does instant domestic transfers any day of the week).
oh yeah, and no mail either, not that I am expecting anything, but posting out can't be done until tuesday so I have an order still up in the air waiting to be posted out, and a re-delivery that is also waiting. I hope that there is no trouble for at least a few weeks so I can finally get my vendor bond back, and at least one order goes through and then I can finally pay my rent and get to extracting a batch of MHRB that I've got everything ready for except the MHRB, and finally start to make a decent amount of money out of this.
My connection isn't as solid as it had been yesterday but it's no worse than it ever has been. Sometimes I have to click reload a few times before it comes up and occasionally the error page comes up but it's totally usable. The forum is rock solid also.
Long live the fighters! The sleeper shall awaken!
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Wow Sr has not run this fast for me ever not even when I first joined 15 months ago. Lets all pray it lasts long enough to get a few orders and release funds. Fingers crossed. Lots of thanks to the guys working so hard or paying off assholes.
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Bravo! Standing ovation! :) :) :) :)
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Thanks DPR and crew!!! You guys ROCK!!!!
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Sweet. :P
If this happens again I would consider releasing any info you have on where the attack originates from just to let any willing community members to donate some bandwidth to counter the attack IP's.
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i'd love to know how you think you'll get their ip addresses when they are using tor...
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Thank God! I love all of you guys, great work!
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i just keep getting logged off each time i click on another page.....
Same here and it's really fuckin annoying! >:(
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DPR, we never lost faith in you. The battle may not yet be over but victory is eminent.
This community and this movement will never die.
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Looks like we are down again......auto log off every click now.....well it was a little over 24 hours this time.
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it doesn't happen *every* time i click a link, mine stays up for a while, but then it's logging out, yes. I don't know if it's because i changed my http keep-alive to 3600. i'll turn it back to 300 and see if that makes any difference.
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ok, the problem is starting to get pretty consistent for me too. so we are not out of the woods yet.
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the auto log out is a security patch being implemented because of the attack i believe is what was said in another thread
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DPR you sir are a true gent.
massive thanks to you and your team.
me, and every other sr user im sure, truely appreciate all you hard work at fixing these problems and giving us back our choice to use the service.
may your good work continue!!!
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Hey everyone, i just want to say what a great job DPR and the team have done keeping this ship afloat, it must have been a living nightmare the last week or so but still the ball keeps rolling, so hats off to everyone that did their part.
Now for the part i hate to see people do but yet here i am in the same position, i am literally 0.05btc short of making a purchase with a super cool well trusted vendor for some dank fruity buds, could any of you guys donate it to my wallet -(1CdYqaRYTNooZ1Rjwrk3MXbvWwvGgGh5Kk)- if you have it laying about :) i'd really appreciate it and you would make an anarchist stoner happy :)
Cheers!
complete respect to the whole silkroad movement!
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Hey everyone, i just want to say what a great job DPR and the team have done keeping this ship afloat, it must have been a living nightmare the last week or so but still the ball keeps rolling, so hats off to everyone that did their part.
Now for the part i hate to see people do but yet here i am in the same position, i am literally 0.05btc short of making a purchase with a super cool well trusted vendor for some dank fruity buds, could any of you guys donate it to my wallet -(1CdYqaRYTNooZ1Rjwrk3MXbvWwvGgGh5Kk)- if you have it laying about :) i'd really appreciate it and you would make an anarchist stoner happy :)
Cheers!
complete respect to the whole silkroad movement!
wrong thread cuz
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Is there a thread dedicated to asking for donations?
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Is there a thread dedicated to asking for donations?
Sure nuf
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=65125.0;topicseen
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Hey everyone, i just want to say what a great job DPR and the team have done keeping this ship afloat, it must have been a living nightmare the last week or so but still the ball keeps rolling, so hats off to everyone that did their part.
Now for the part i hate to see people do but yet here i am in the same position, i am literally 0.05btc short of making a purchase with a super cool well trusted vendor for some dank fruity buds, could any of you guys donate it to my wallet -(1CdYqaRYTNooZ1Rjwrk3MXbvWwvGgGh5Kk)- if you have it laying about :) i'd really appreciate it and you would make an anarchist stoner happy :)
Cheers!
complete respect to the whole silkroad movement!
Hey everyone, i just want to say what a great job DPR and the team have done keeping this ship afloat, it must have been a living nightmare the last week or so but still the ball keeps rolling, so hats off to everyone that did their part.
Now for the part i hate to see people do but yet here i am in the same position, i am literally 0.05btc short of making a purchase with a super cool well trusted vendor for some dank fruity buds, could any of you guys donate it to my wallet -(1CdYqaRYTNooZ1Rjwrk3MXbvWwvGgGh5Kk)- if you have it laying about :) i'd really appreciate it and you would make an anarchist stoner happy :)
Cheers!
complete respect to the whole silkroad movement!
wrong thread cuz
Is there a thread dedicated to asking for donations?
Yes. Official Spare Coins Thread: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=65125.0
Otherwise located in Off topic: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?board=1.0
Piece, Love, and Fuck Haters.
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it doesn't happen *every* time i click a link, mine stays up for a while, but then it's logging out, yes.
Same here...
hey, at least I got to send some messages...
hopefully it'll be running smoothly soon - I was about to put some orders :-)
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I prefer to be logged off from time to time rather than endure the downtime. Perhaps not this often, but if this helps mitigate the attack, I'm up for this!
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I usually get quite awhile, like at least 30 minute intervals minimum before i get logged off and I am not going to complain at all! :) because I can still easily conduct business, people can still easily place orders or do whatever they need to do and if it helps keep the site running as fast and as great as it is now, I could live with the auto-log off every once in a while! :)
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It works out for some. For others it closes out at the most important times-when you are done writing a message and want to hit send or are ready to click order. This is very discouraging and frustrating.
People are heading over to Atlantis because they cant RELY on anything here anymore.
This screws vendors and customers alike. Its a shame.
It just feels like the attackers are winning here.
:'(
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yeah its doing it to me, keeps bumping me back to login page everytime i hit orders..
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The site seems to have more bugs than ever before, BUT IT'S FUNCTIONAL! So who's complaining?
But really, does anyone know why the site has been buggy? I mean I've never been logged out so many times. On top of that the captcha is merely 3 numbers, instead of the 4 letter 2-3 number captcha we're used to. Am I just being paranoid, or is that weird?
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Maybe it gives the 3 number captcha to fuck up the dos and I got a captcha of fagot426 just now lol. I think your being paranoid. But I always look at the address bar to make sure its the real sr address.
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oh thank baby jeebus. So glad to see the SR working properly!
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**Gives You All Hugs**
LOL :)
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The site seems to have more bugs than ever before, BUT IT'S FUNCTIONAL! So who's complaining?
But really, does anyone know why the site has been buggy? I mean I've never been logged out so many times. On top of that the captcha is merely 3 numbers, instead of the 4 letter 2-3 number captcha we're used to. Am I just being paranoid, or is that weird?
For those who have been here for several months, that 3-character captcha is not as worrying because we've seen it happen before without consequence. It's just a weird little glitch, but it's not dangerous. If you refresh the login page, you'll get a captcha of normal length. As long as the url is correct (silkroadvb5piz3r.onion) and you are not being asked for your PIN, then you're fine.
Also - before anyone brings it up here (as it's already all over the forums) - YES, there are delays in bitcoin deposits!
DPR is aware of these issues.
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Have not experienced the BTC delay but will say the site is as fast as I have seen it in months... thanks for all the hard work in keeping it going!
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The site seems to have more bugs than ever before, BUT IT'S FUNCTIONAL! So who's complaining?
But really, does anyone know why the site has been buggy? I mean I've never been logged out so many times. On top of that the captcha is merely 3 numbers, instead of the 4 letter 2-3 number captcha we're used to. Am I just being paranoid, or is that weird?
For those who have been here for several months, that 3-character captcha is not as worrying because we've seen it happen before without consequence. It's just a weird little glitch, but it's not dangerous. If you refresh the login page, you'll get a captcha of normal length. As long as the url is correct (silkroadvb5piz3r.onion) and you are not being asked for your PIN, then you're fine.
Also - before anyone brings it up here (as it's already all over the forums) - YES, there are delays in bitcoin deposits!
DPR is aware of these issues.
Scout you just answered all my questions:) +1 for that
i was a little worried about that captia too but i just doublchecked the url and it was correct. as for the coins how long are the deposit delays?
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The site seems to have more bugs than ever before, BUT IT'S FUNCTIONAL! So who's complaining?
But really, does anyone know why the site has been buggy? I mean I've never been logged out so many times. On top of that the captcha is merely 3 numbers, instead of the 4 letter 2-3 number captcha we're used to. Am I just being paranoid, or is that weird?
For those who have been here for several months, that 3-character captcha is not as worrying because we've seen it happen before without consequence. It's just a weird little glitch, but it's not dangerous. If you refresh the login page, you'll get a captcha of normal length. As long as the url is correct (silkroadvb5piz3r.onion) and you are not being asked for your PIN, then you're fine.
Also - before anyone brings it up here (as it's already all over the forums) - YES, there are delays in bitcoin deposits!
DPR is aware of these issues.
Scout you just answered all my questions:) +1 for that
i was a little worried about that captia too but i just doublchecked the url and it was correct. as for the coins how long are the deposit delays?
I'm glad I could help answer your questions! Sadly, I won't be able to help answer this one about the delay timing though. Several people are reporting not receiving their deposits even after 10-12 hours of waiting, so the delay is pretty severe, I'd say. Still, we passed the info along to the staff several hours ago, so I'm sure they are aware of it and working on it.
If anyone would like to join in on bashing me about it, feel free to contribute angrily to the following thread:
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=156494.0
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SCOUT! WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SALAD I PURCHASED FROM MARKS AND SPENCERS EARLIER? AYE? AYE? WHERE THE FUCK IS IT? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT MARKS AND SPENCERS IS?
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I'm really mad that a website isn't working at 100% when it's been attacked continuously for the last 2 weeks.
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Actually, now for me it works much better then before the attack.. faster then ever
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^Hells yes! <3
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Yesterday I got kicked off a few times maybe once in every 20-25 pages, today no problems at all, been a member for over a year and the site is loading as fast as ever even with pictures so mad props to SR & Staff.
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SCOUT! WHERE THE FUCK IS THE SALAD I PURCHASED FROM MARKS AND SPENCERS EARLIER? AYE? AYE? WHERE THE FUCK IS IT? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT MARKS AND SPENCERS IS?
lol
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That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
This seems very true about SR :)
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That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
This seems very true about SR :)
:)
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havent been here in a while...did i miss anything? he he... DPR / SR team: you are heros, thank you.
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people tryina ruin the swag.... major buzz kill...
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Is the site down again? I was just on and lost the connection and can't reconnect.
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NEVER MIND. I AM BACK ON.
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LONG LIVE THE DREAD PIRATE ROBERTS AND THE SILK ROAD!
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SR running great, thanks again DPR
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Blazing speed. Thank you DPR!
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Yup, everything running smoothly for me thx SR team!!
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Thank you SR team for making the machine keep going.
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yes, working great. Thanks DPR/crew mates.
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quick as shit for me too!
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Working smooth and fast as ever. Great job DPR!
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Great job DPR, keep doin your thing!
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Keep up the hard work dpr we all appreciate it!
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everything loads so quickly, indeed, overcoming the attack made SR stronger than ever.
Thanks DPR, Long Live SR!
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Thanks DPR this is all good now. I have been a bit sus on the log outs and the log in screen though.
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Thank you very much DPR , working great!
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oh incredible shit i love it
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Thanks for all the time and effort you are putting into this Dpr and everybody you have helping you. Just to be able to post this at the moment means that You lot are doing wonders for our beloved community.
The guy will always be able to attack in many ways. So we will need some sort of new system or re-definition of the netowrk as you say to keep constantly on top, However even a re-structure might not work, as a hacker this skilled can re-structure his attack to fit around the new network, He obviously knows how it all works.
I hope you can overcome this hacker and may the wind be at your back.
A big thank you DPR.
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Hmm, is it only me or is the login captcha broken? Seem to remember we had this problem a few months ago. Only the numbered section displays so you cannot login..
Hope its fixed soon!
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SR has been soooo fast and working 100% in the last week or so :) great job guys!
Just wondering thought.. anyone having issues now.. I can get to the login screen.. but its doing the 3 number captcha.. won't let me login.. kept refreshing but I keep getting the 3 letter... I can only login when I get a proper catcha.. which I can't seem to atm :( ? Tried like 100 times but the 3 number/letter captch doesnt work for me, ever.
thanks
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Exact same here. Glad to hear I'm not the only one.
cheers
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Ya, the same thing is happening to me. Only 3 word capcha and doesnt log in. I hope this doesn't last too long :(
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Oh shit here go a few rocky hours!
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Ya, the same thing is happening to me. Only 3 word capcha and doesnt log in. I hope this doesn't last too long :(
me neither :C
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yeah only getting the numbers on the captcha still - its been , like this for a while now :(
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Yes! A belated congratulations and a big THANK YOU to DPR and the crew for rescuing SR. It's working better than ever now. and to think I almost dropped coin and made a purchase through BMR! But I'm too loyal to SR, I just couldn't do it and stayed patient. So glad I did.
Keep up the great work DPR! We appreciate your efforts in this fight.
BigFlake
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I receive the full caption and am able to log in. Try restarting your tor browser and or machine and try again?
Love
Turp
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Hello,
i didn't lurked here some weeks.
Is there currently a problem with Bitcoin deposits to SR?
(0 confirmations since four hours)
Edit: additional info: I used "get new address" about 10 hours before the transaction to SR.
Edit: Update: 6-7 hours later the transaction arrived. Seems to be fine.
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Sagt Bitte nicht dass die Road wieder down ist :( ?
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Are we having problems today?
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i was able to log in five minutes ago, site was fast, normal captcha and i had no problems!
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since about half an hour i have problems to connect to sr, too. sometimes it's not reachable, sometimes it takes quite long...
oh noes...
ps: you are doing a great job, dpr! thanks for all!
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some of you people may need to update tor because it is working fine
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Yea' it's not letting me on for shit today guys fucking hacking cunts surly they can find something else to hack?.
Go Dos facebook, gmail, ebay leave us drug'ies' alone. hide behind your bonet like a fucking bitch.
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some of you people may need to update tor because it is working fine
i don't even know how i'd go about doing that (Mac OS)
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some of you people may need to update tor because it is working fine
i don't even know how i'd go about doing that (Mac OS)
On the top left of the Tor browser, just the the right of the back/forward buttons, you should see an onion graphic. If you click on that, it should open a drop-down menu with the option "Download Tor browser bundle update" at the bottom.
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here tor is up to date since a few days.
but now sr is working fine again. maybe we are a bit hysterical...
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sometimes i get really impatient too. if it dosent seem to load and i have nothing else open i will just shut down tor and open it again. fuck it
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Yeah looks like it's fucked again...I got on to login then nothin...Tried again, denied, got in 3rd time but got booted again so thought I'd check forum and seems everyone's getting similar service.
Fucking DDoS cunts!! LOL
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the same here...
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SR works fine for me for the last 2 weeks, but has anybody else having problems with connecting to the forum? every 2nd time i try to load a thread i get the message "problem loading page"
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SR works fine for me for the last 2 weeks, but has anybody else having problems with connecting to the forum? every 2nd time i try to load a thread i get the message "problem loading page"
Yeah mate, me. been having this problem all day.
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This DPR dude is a BOSS! Wish I could party with him and all you other wonderfull people on here! Hugs all round, in a non gay way!
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SR is timing out for me :-\
hopefully i get through soon:)
Much love DPR & crew
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Thank you DPR for all your hard work. What ever brings you down can only make you stronger.
Much love to you DPR. Thank you again for not giving up.
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Hunt the bastards down and teach them a lesson for messing with SR
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Hunt the bastards down and teach them a lesson for messing with SR
I like your thinking. That might be why SR is back up and running smoothly again. The attacker might have been found and taken good care of at the bottom of a lake or river lol.
Don't fuck with SR!!!!!
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It Works :)
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is it down for anyone
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I can't log in =(
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i am able to log in, site is loading very fast, no problems, maybe try to get a new identity in tor
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works al righte now. thanks dued
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I can get on as well. mustn't av been very long.
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I've been having problems with the mainsite since about 3pm UTC
Anyone else??
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I've been having problems with the mainsite since about 3pm UTC
Anyone else??
I haven't had any troubles at all. The main site actually seems to be running very smoothly. Sorry for your trouble, but good luck getting in! Maybe try restarting/ reconnecting to tor/ all of that good stuff.
Turp
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Hey peeps, haven't been around in a while, and was just wondering if the main site address had been changed during all this madness. I haven't been able to get the main site to load using the normal address in a few days. Feel free to pm me if necessary. Thanks!
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Hey peeps, haven't been around in a while, and was just wondering if the main site address had been changed during all this madness. I haven't been able to get the main site to load using the normal address in a few days. Feel free to pm me if necessary. Thanks!
The address is:
silkroadvb5piz3r.onion
Libertas
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forum has been in an out for the past two nights for me.. main site working great though ;D
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Hey peeps, haven't been around in a while, and was just wondering if the main site address had been changed during all this madness. I haven't been able to get the main site to load using the normal address in a few days. Feel free to pm me if necessary. Thanks!
The address is:
silkroadvb5piz3r.onion
Libertas
Thanks man. Same address I was using of course, but worked right after you posted it! lol
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forum was inaccessible for me yesterday~lastnight :( anybody else?
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forum was inaccessible for me yesterday~lastnight :( anybody else?
Same!
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forum was inaccessible for me yesterday~lastnight :( anybody else?
Please see DPR's thread on the issue here:
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=163966.0
Libertas
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Its been smooth as could be for me last few days, I never noticed a single thing since the last set of troubles, back to running like tescos. Its unreal.
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im getting a 503 error? :'(
am i alone here?
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im getting a 503 error? :'(
am i alone here?
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=173280