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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: That 1 Dude on May 05, 2012, 06:09 am
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I would love to read a million years of threads, but when I read for a long time, I don't retain information. Its in my eyes and out my ass.. And I'm lazy - Doubly Whammy.
I have been away from the PC, enjoying my 420 sale goodies and the summer weather. I come back.. and instead of coming back to glorious new products and vendors.. I get fear mongering propaganda..
My question, as a noob to SR, is what happened to TFM? And, what difference is it from SR's security?
Was Tony a con? An arrested vendor? A planted LEO?
Am I at risk? As a buyer who received her 420 package from tony.. I signed up for tmart, but never bought a thing. Am I at risk?
I know half of you will say I am always at risk, and the other half will say I am never at risk.. But whats really going on?
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how can anyone give you a definite answer??? you even admit to it in your post
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We are all at the whim of speculation.
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You are one of THREE people to receive from his sale. Out of the aprox. 500 orders, I'd be a little sketched out.
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we really need to stick together through this whole nonsense, if the mods could please have a huge announcement to calm us down?
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Im no expert (far from it), but it the farmers market operation atom bomb targeted several major TFM dealers who were tracked through the paper trails left behind by payments received through paypal and western union. It looks to me like they were being sloppy and blatantly shipping and receiving orders.
SR uses bitcoins and encryption to protect its buyers, but there is always a risk when dealing and purchasing illegal goods.
As far as tony goes, I have no fucking clue. I never saw that one coming. He seemed as legit as they come, but I am glad l never ordered from him. I avoided him because he was an international vendor, one of my main rules that has yet to bite me in the ass (12 purchases all happily received).
Good luck and be safe.
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Dont mean to sound like a cunt and I really do feel sorry for those that got ripped.
From a SR view though if you deal with a vendor through an alternate site then its really not upto the mods to announce shit to anyone. The dealer also bypassed SR and their commissions as I understand by setting up his own site.
Sorry I dont get why SR holds a responsibility in this instance to make any announcements? If I got it wrong please correct me?
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I would love to read a million years of threads, but when I read for a long time, I don't retain information. Its in my eyes and out my ass.. And I'm lazy - Doubly Whammy.
I have been away from the PC, enjoying my 420 sale goodies and the summer weather. I come back.. and instead of coming back to glorious new products and vendors.. I get fear mongering propaganda..
My question, as a noob to SR, is what happened to TFM? And, what difference is it from SR's security?
Was Tony a con? An arrested vendor? A planted LEO?
Am I at risk? As a buyer who received her 420 package from tony.. I signed up for tmart, but never bought a thing. Am I at risk?
I know half of you will say I am always at risk, and the other half will say I am never at risk.. But whats really going on?
I dont think you have to be "shitting a brick" in this case at the moment, though I do feel you should assert every bit of security possible....
Here is a short cut and paste quoted section from a prior topic if you wish to read through
All of SR isnt going down, clearly shown by the arrests made on the TFM case just recently. Clearly all the buyers, sellers, etc, werent busted. It was 6-8 people. The top heads, site owners, top vendors, top money launderers. Im POSITIVE the SR people have taken FAR MORE measures of security than alot of those folks and alot more measures of security than the majority of people on here. Top vendors are still here, alive and kicking. Out of the last 10 transactions iv made in the last 2 weeks 9 have gotten here and number 10 is "in progress". If it doesnt make it, than guess what, my success rate is 90%. I follow the security measures and receive success... I encrypt my stuff (though im going to start PGPing every fucking message now), I externally boot my OS, DBAN once a week, Tor prior to linking, Run a virtual Windows on my linux to run my TOr, The bitch hits 2 VPNs (one via linux and one via windows), and I steal wireless while from the surrounding 20,000 routers with a home made signal booster and than bounces through ip2.... It took years of surveillance and warrants of hush-mail accounts and multiple trades for them to get 8 people on TFM (those were super weak security systems)
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