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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: Prince Humperdinck on July 12, 2012, 11:27 pm
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Does anyone else find it strange that DPR's post count dropped significantly since May 7th, 2012? I never payed much attention to it before until a friend mentioned that some major MDMA distributors from the NW USA heard about the operators of SR getting caught. I brushed it off as a rumor until I looked through DPR's post count and now I'm a bit concerned.
I know this is pure speculation as I have no evidence or reliable source, It just seems like something worthy of discussing.
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This is why you use gpg4win when sending information over the SR network.
If DPR gets taken down, and this is the #1 goal of global law enforcement working on this project, then I would bet they let the site run to catch other top vendors.
But again I probably wouldn't have much fear if you send your address unencrypted over SR. Historically with online operations they go for the dealers. But who knows, maybe they take down everyone if there are transaction logs and they can trace IP's. Click on your account history and you can edit reviews on every purchase you made. Pretty damning log if you ask me, but vital for this site to exist.
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I'm picturing the scenario that DPR has been caught and SR is taken over by the feds. What could they do to track down vendors? What can vendors do to protect themselves if the SR has been compromised?
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Obviously, the cops would love to grab control of the server or the software here.
But I think DPR is just a shy guy and best to just keep in the background really now this thing is pretty big.
As for rumours, sure I heard lots of those but ignore them as rumours are spread by people with nothing better to do.
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This is interesting, i would like to know more about what other people think about this
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Sounds like bullshit to me. I mean there aren't even any 'major' mdma distributors from the US on SR, how would they have access to such information? If anything they got SR confused With farmers market which did get busted recently.
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Hmmm, Also enjoying this discusion.
It could be possible that SR has been infiltrated by LE. That they are monitoring transactions as we speak to de-anonymize vendors and buyers. Starting out with the big fries and moving to the small ones hen they're bored. It could also be possible that DPR is actually LE...and this whole Silk Road site is an elaborate entrapment ploy by a bored LE hacker.
But that would make LE a dealer! In other words they would be directly responsible for some sort of en-masse global entrapment. I would ventrue a guess that none of it would stand up in any court anywhere in the known universe, and then they would be dragged over the coals and the public would lose all trust in the organisation responsible. Not exactly a good situation for those supposedly steering the ship...the politicians.
But you don't have to turn too many pages back, to uncover lies and deceipt from those who lead and rule us. Hstory is littered with cases of these things popping up in a newspaper 15 years down the track...when the wounds have all but heald and nobody really cares. If they could kep their mouth shut for long enough it might work.
If this were the case, it would be more likely that LE would monitor transactions and attempt individual busts with evidence that could not be tied the fact that they are responsible for running the largest online drugs marketplace. Ie. they would use unencrypted identity information such as addresses to monitor and raid large dealers. Looks good on a media release, and the public doesn't find out for decades.
Hmmm. Paranoid much? Probably. But a sprinkle of paranoia can be a healthy thing IMHO. Especially when you may be saying 'Good Mornin' to Bubba for 10 to life.
I think the key is simply treating SR like you would any other darknet site and assume the squiggly characters I'm typing into this box right now will one day end up in the hands of someone I don;t want them to.
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It's summer. He's a wealthy pirate. I wouldn't post much either. Ya know? Probably stabbin away at hookers, booty, and blow. Good times at the Pirate Ranch. Or yacht. Or underground bunker.
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Or we are all in pods being drained of blood by aliens!
Reality is some induced hallucination!
Shit, and DPR is Fu Manchu
Sinister Chinese master criminal!
Heavy shit, got to do some lsd to chill!
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It's summer. He's a wealthy pirate. I wouldn't post much either. Ya know? Probably stabbin away at hookers, booty, and blow. Good times at the Pirate Ranch. Or yacht. Or underground bunker.
Ha!
True. I would venture a guess that the SR Servers are actually hyper-intelligent parrots capable of communicating with each other in HTML and DPR just sails the world from summer to summer, a parrot on each shoulder, whistfully comtemplating why life is so fucking good.
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I think he's okay....
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Last thing i hear , as he told` me he was in brasil...spending so off his $$$ ;)
take one one me...pirate bleu eye...
AA
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He is such a genius. all of his money is very well deserved in my honest opinion. i hope that hes enjoying it!
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Did anyone else notice OP's user name? He's DPR's arch-enemy!
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I really hope DPR is safe, but if he is not and LE has the site, we have encryption ;D
Best Regards,
Stormtrooper
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I really hope DPR is safe, but if he is not and LE has the site, we have encryption ;D
Best Regards,
Stormtrooper
Yes, but can this encryption be broken with enough ambition?
One thing I've learned in my 20 years of computer addiction is encryption is always broken eventually. Even the supposedly "unbreakable" encryption that we use to communicate our addresses. Humans are always more clever than what we create. We created it, after all.
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I really hope DPR is safe, but if he is not and LE has the site, we have encryption ;D
Best Regards,
Stormtrooper
Yes, but can this encryption be broken with enough ambition?
One thing I've learned in my 20 years of computer addiction is encryption is always broken eventually. Even the supposedly "unbreakable" encryption that we use to communicate our addresses. Humans are always more clever than what we create. We created it, after all.
But the one thing you haven't learned in 20 years is how to read the dates on a thread.
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Why post such dribble? I heard from this and that and blah , just rumours creating pointless discussion. Also the world does not resolve around the USA, theres probally more MDMA in a 100 mile radius of the netherlands than there is in the USA.
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schneier's law :D
All it takes is a gifted kid somewhere, anywhere in the world, with too much free time on his hand and a supply of red bulls.
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I really hope DPR is safe, but if he is not and LE has the site, we have encryption ;D
Best Regards,
Stormtrooper
Yes, but can this encryption be broken with enough ambition?
One thing I've learned in my 20 years of computer addiction is encryption is always broken eventually. Even the supposedly "unbreakable" encryption that we use to communicate our addresses. Humans are always more clever than what we create. We created it, after all.
But the one thing you haven't learned in 20 years is how to read the dates on a thread.
Nah, I was aware. Just high and going through my "New replys to posts you've made" button
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He was just talking when the new Site was launching.. and about something else.
I am sure he is busy LIVING.
He can't sit on SR all day if he is working on new ideas and security measures.
Go DPR!!!!