Silk Road 2 Busted

[eminem93]

Silk2.0 still working? Know of any others? Message me

The whole TOR network is crap at this point IMO, all the nodes are infected.

 

[Captaincook3]

The whole TOR network is crap at this point IMO, all the nodes are infected.

You read about openbazzar? Or whatever it's called seems interesting.

 

[eminem93]

You read about openbazzar? Or whatever it's called seems interesting.

Yah i watched like the developers video of it on youtube. I get the general concept of it, but people claiming that this one will be "unstoppable" are just talking out of their culos.

 

[Millard]

Yah i watched like the developers video of it on youtube. I get the general concept of it, but people claiming that this one will be "unstoppable" are just talking out of their culos.

It's an interesting cat and mouse...

 

[Millard]

Here are some "Thoughts and Concerns about Operation Onymous" from the TOR developers:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/thoughts-and-concerns-about-operation-onymous

Most importantly, they note that three servers running TOR exit nodes were down and likely seized:

https://blog.torservers.net/20141109/three-servers-offline-likely-seized.html

At least one independent TOR relay operator was detained and computers seized in Eastern Europe:

https://raided4tor.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/this-just-happened-raided-for-running-a-tor-relay-im-a-suspect-now/

 

[TokSik]

To follow up on Cherro England's stance on AAS. Maybe a MESO British member can give some input:
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/resources/drugsearch/drugsearchpages/anabolicsteroids
http://www.drugscope.org.uk/resources/drugsearch/drugsearchpages/laws.htm
I am curious to find out why Great Britain decided to go this way specifically with AAS. I am going to ask the question on a UK board and see what they say.

I'm in England. What's said in the posts quoted are not quite right.
Here is the law, as it was changed in 2012 :--
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Home Office circular 009/2012​

(our Home Office is the equivalent of your State Department)​

Restrictions on the importation and exportation of Schedule 4 Part II drugs and removal of the term ‘medicinal product’ from the 2001 Regulations
At present the prohibition on importation and exportation of controlled drugs under section 3(1) of the 1971 Act and sections 50(1) to (4), 68(2) and (3) or 170 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 are disapplied in relation to drugs listed in Part II of Schedule 4 to the 2001 Regulations in respect of the importation and exportation of these drugs ‘by any person for administration to himself’ and ‘when contained in a medicinal product’.
This SI amends the current provisions under Regulation 4(2) for drugs listed in Part II of Schedule 4 to the 2001 Regulations - anabolic steroids and human growth hormones - by making it clear that importation or exportation of these drugs must be carried out in person by the user.
The importation and exportation of these drugs can no longer be conducted through postal, freight or courier services into or out of the UK. Any such consignments detected by UK Border Force will be seized and destroyed, and the circumstances of each case investigated fully with the possibility of additional enforcement action being taken against the parties concerned.
The SI also removes the term ‘medicinal product’ from the 2001 Regulations. The effect is that anabolic steroids and human growth hormones regardless of their origin are treated the same under the legislation.
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In practice, I've yet to find real cases where someone with simple possession of small(ish) amounts has been prosecuted. I came back from a trip to the Lebanon a few months ago, and had with me some boxes of amps (sustanon and Deca-durabolin) Clomid, and Tamoxifen. I declared them to customs, who had a quick glance at them then chucked them back into my bag without any comment. He was more interested in the food I brought back to ensure it was "factory made and sealed".
Steroids could until 2012 be bought openly from ANY pharmacy or pharmaceutical supplier outside the U.K.(such as Balkan Pharmaceuticals in Moldova where I used to get mine) even in powder form. But it HAD to be pharmaceutically factory packaged.
I guess it is such a grey area of the law here now, that "most" customs won't bother with it so long as the amount being brought back isn't seen as such a large quantity that you must be supplying some to other people. But there are back doors to the law inasmuch as the UK islands that have their own governments have slightly different laws, based on English law (I'm still researching whether the Channel Islands and the Isle-of-Man made the above-mentioned change to their importation laws or whether we can still get it sent to a post office box there and have it re-shipped from the islands (because they're classed as being already within the U.K. so won't even be looked at by customs).
If anyone reading this is from one of the islands, I'd appreciate a heads up on that.

 

[ThatLittleMonster]

If online security is a big concern or interest of yours, you'd probably be well served by learning about things like browser fingerprinting. This is a good way of legally proving that there was a certain computer behind specific internet traffic, with or without TOR or even potentially a VPN. Live OS's like Ipredia (more for secure torrenting, but can be routed through TOR for browsing) or Tails can help with fingerprinting because once the computer is shut down then the computer responsible for the traffic doesn't exist anymore, but it can be pretty confusing and frustrating for many. Browser add-ons like HTTPS Everywhere, Ghostery, DoNotTrackMe, FlashBlock, Java Pop-up Blocker and others can help minimize your online trail a great deal. But they also help narrow down the list through browser fingerprinting if you're a target. PRISM Break has been spoken highly of by people in NetSec, but it's not something I have experience with personally. Also, it should really go without saying, but if you're security minded then surfing questionable sites from your phone is a pretty terrible idea. at least without routing through a proxy or VPN.

There are some other, much less secure proxies floating around and more being developed, but it will be a very hard, long road before anything else offers the security TOR once did. It had decades of experimentation, and because it was open source for so long many people could look for and fix bugs in the system at any time. That's not the kind of thing that gets replaced quickly.