-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1Link: http://5uvrgtrgtwkkxsgw.onionPress the button "Vendor Backups" to arrive to the relevant sectionDear all - I'd like to introduce you all to one of my latest ventures. Over the past few months SilkRoad has had a pretty rough time and as a result, there has been a huge effort by DPR & Co. to keep this place afloat amid a myriad of attacks on all fronts and I'm sure we all applaud them for that heroic effort.However, the question has been recently - what if? Say SilkRoad goes down tomorrow, do you have all your vendors saved? Unlikely, that's probably what most users will face and the daunting prospect of gathering unreliable information from anonymous sources, scamming would be rife. So, I have went through the monumental effort (those working closely with me know exactly how long this took to get started) of putting together a new hidden service, featuring the saved HTML page of each vendors page.This is NOT to be used to conduct business outside of SilkRoad, nor for that matter to be used as an active part of the marketplace as it has no official links to SilkRoad other than DPR merely confirming we are permitted to scrape the pages for this purpose. However, in the event SilkRoad goes down for an extended period of time, I hope it is useful for everybody to get in touch with your vendors again, some of whom rely on SilkRoad sales for their entire income stream.As a word of fair warning and to answer some probable questions, I must lay forth the following:- - This is not a system designed to be perfectly secure, it is not possible for us to currently do that with our setup right now. We are hosted on Freedom Hosting who are well known by the hidden service community - but this means they can access and alter our content without our knowledge. Whenever a site update occurs, I re-upload the entire site content so any modified content is removed and replaced with the copies I have stored locally. Freedom Hosting for now have a solid reputation, but this does not imply their trust is on par with SilkRoad staff or any trust at all so if you spot something unusual, let me know right away and I'll look into it.- - The list is only trustworthy to the extent that I myself am trusted by those using it. I do not consider myself superior to any other member of this forum, but I feel I've been around long enough to be a temporary measure until we can come together and form a better solution to this if need be. If you do not trust me to maintain this list - I do not oblige you to, I am merely trying to aid those who do so please do not post criticism of this factor unless it is constructive in some manner in which case I welcome it with open arms.- - This is the page where I host my own stuff too, feel free to browse but it is not officially connected to the marketplace in any way and so ideas, suggestions and content hosted there is separate from anything on SilkRoad unless otherwise stated. DPR has cleared me to scrape the marketplace pages as I have done, but has not given any kind of official endorsement and is not under his direct control in any manner, although I will respect his wishes on the matter, so do not consider this any branch of the SilkRoad staff.- - The page uses basic Javascript for aesthetic reasons and unfortunately if I remove it from the content template, the page stops working for some unknown reason, yet the page will still function with javascript disabled. I encourage you to use NoScript to block such javascript, but this is not any kind of malicious attempt and a quick glance at the source code can reveal it is merely page effects and structure.- - I will update the backup pages as often as I can, but it is an extensively time consuming effort to do so. Information on the pages may be up to several days old in the event SilkRoad goes down so still err on the side of caution and encrypt all information to them for if SilkRoad is compromised, any vendor not taking proper precautions may also have been compromised.- - It is the vendors responsibility to inform me if they make a drastic change to their information such as both an e-mail and PGP change. If the marketplace went down shortly after, very few people will notice this error. If you make a big change then just send me a friendly reminder and I'll update it immediately for you, otherwise it may be several days before your specific page is updated.- - A .zip file is not available to download all of the content from the site just yet until it has been properly audited to contain none of my personal information. This is a temporary measure but I will introduce such an option as soon as possible assuming the security experts of the forum have no objections/thoughts on the matter.- - YES I will host specific content if you ask me, however each request is individually considered as I will not host any kind of pornographic content (inc. child porn), malware, phishing, scams etc. If the content is server intensive, then make clear what kind of resources the script requires to run. - - NO I will not send you a Freedom Hosting invite for the simple reason I don't have any left to give away and I already have several people asking for one who are close associates.- - I am in dire need of some technical assistance on this project as manually sourcing all these pages is an absolute pain and takes extraordinary man hours to collate. If you can offer any help, please just message me and I may throw a few coins your way if it's implemented and working :) .- - I know, the site is rudimentary, that's being considered and adjusted as soon as possible. We'll get a more fancy look as soon as the core elements are polished off as we require function over fashion.That's all from me. A notice can be found at the bottom of the page which indicates the last time the site itself was updated and a notice just above the vendor list indicates the last time that whole list was updated (it will not be reset if less than half of all vendor pages are updated at that time).Suggestions/constructive criticism/ideas are welcomed!Link: http://5uvrgtrgtwkkxsgw.onionPress the button "Vendor Backups" to arrive to the relevant section======================Credits to astor for helping me out and brain-storming with me on this & Jack N Hoff for doing some pre-release auditing for me.More features WILL be added to the site as time goes on such as image uploading and possibly more advanced features still in the works. Send me your suggestions!-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (MingW32)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A0LJ-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Updates (all will be signed with both of my keys):http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=165858.msg1187817#msg1187817 (01.06.2013)