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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: FearTheReaper on September 06, 2013, 01:02 am
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* Public Service Announcement And Warning for Nooblets *
The forums are dominated by paranoid technocrats. Over consumption of their mind numbing techno-dribble can result in paranoid thoughts, anxiety, loss of sleep, feelings of inadequacy, and helplessness.
To counter these potential side effects, remember that a little bit of security and ordinary common sense is all that is required.
If the only thing you do is properly set up your TOR browser and keep it updated and use PGP to encrypt you mailing address when placing an order, then you've just covered yourself with a 95% security blanket. The rest of the precautions that are vociferously debated in these forums are spent chasing a pipe dream of 100% security. I'm not suggesting that those additional precautions aren't important, but I am suggesting that risk tolerance varies by individual.
There are 80,000 people on the SR forums. My guess is there's 250,000 SR customers in total (assuming only 1 out of 3 register on the forums).
Let's examine this.
Of those 250,000 customers, I would guess that at least 100,000 are not using the most current version of TOR. As for the rest who do, I'll bet half don't have it set up properly (the right filters turned on).
But let's say I'm wrong and only 10,000 fit that category. Forget that, let's take the dumbest 1,000 SR customers -- dumb-as-dirt fuck twads walking around with a blinking neon sign on their heads that screams"BUST ME". One thousand begging-to-be-busted SR customers buying and receiving drugs through the mail, day in and day out.
Now, let's compare that to how many people have been busted because their anonymity was compromised.
*Zero*
The point? Relax. Set up your TOR Browser, Learn PGP, and place an order.
Carry on.
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lol..
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Nice!
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this is entrapment! everybody trash your laptops and move out of your apartment, they are coming! go go go!
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Hide your kids, hide your wife, ...
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hide your dog.
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THISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHIS. Is what I've been arguing for since my first post. If you aren't ordering ounces of hard stuff or pounds of weed; have taken the most basic reasonable precautions; and don't tell everyone you know you have/can get piles of drugs; go to fucking sleep soundly LE doesn't care about you and isn't going to waste resources investigating and staking out your goddamn house and mailbox 24/7. Instead, you should be paranoid about having drugs in your car, at work or school, or being ratted out by a "friend" irl. In reality you are 1,000,000 times more likely to be busted in those situations than with SR/mail, which is why most of us who don't buy drugs on the street love the place and you should be eternally grateful for it!
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Good points FearTheReaper
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THISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHIS. Is what I've been arguing for since my first post. If you aren't ordering ounces of hard stuff or pounds of weed; have taken the most basic reasonable precautions; and don't tell everyone you know you have/can get piles of drugs; go to fucking sleep soundly LE doesn't care about you and isn't going to waste resources investigating and staking out your goddamn house and mailbox 24/7. Instead, you should be paranoid about having drugs in your car, at work or school, or being ratted out by a "friend" irl. In reality you are 1,000,000 times more likely to be busted in those situations than with SR/mail, which is why most of us who don't buy drugs on the street love the place and you should be eternally grateful for it!
Clap-Clap-Clap Spot on.
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Oh good now i can take off my tin foil hat...