Silk Road forums
Discussion => Security => Topic started by: rmsher on November 22, 2012, 08:09 pm
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I stumbled across this site (forums) on a regular Internet Explorer browser & even made my account/posted on that browser.
As i did some more research i made my marketplace account through TOR and have done everything on that browser that is SR related since then.
Should i be worried that LE can trace my IP address or no? I'm not computer geek as you can see and would like to know if im able to safely continue to use SR without having to worry about it being traced back to me or should i use a new computer.
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Do you realize the odds are against LE to ever catch you? First of all there is nothing wrong with registering on the forums, for all they know you might just be learning about drug safety. The LE will likely not even see you registering for the forums unless they were personally monitoring your connection. By the way it doesn't matter if you change computers, the wi-fi will use the same I.P again, so why even bother?
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Do you realize the odds are against LE to ever catch you? First of all there is nothing wrong with registering on the forums, for all they know you might just be learning about drug safety. The LE will likely not even see you registering for the forums unless they were personally monitoring your connection. By the way it doesn't matter if you change computers, the wi-fi will use the same I.P again, so why even bother?
thanks, like i said not much of a computer person.
also, if im using the tor browser & i happen to open up IE at the same time and surf on some other sites while on SR on tor will it interfere with my anonymous status? sorry for the stupid questions. i would use the search feature but the site is moving so slow.
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also, if im using the tor browser & i happen to open up IE at the same time and surf on some other sites while on SR on tor will it interfere with my anonymous status?
The short answer is no, at least not in the way you might be thinking. Some do advise against accessing clearnet sites at the same time you access hidden services because a fairly powerful adversary could look at the correlation in login times/activity on your SR and Facebook accounts (for example) and reasonably conclude that you're the same person.
It's not beyond the realm of possibility, I suppose, so it might be a good idea to at least disable the feature that allows other users to see when you're logged into the forum (enabled by default), and/or avoid Facebooking while on SR. You'd hate to get the two windows confused...