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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: hopskiptrip on January 31, 2013, 05:22 am

Title: How I found SR
Post by: hopskiptrip on January 31, 2013, 05:22 am
Stossel is a great show he is a Libertarian talking head on TV he rocks also thus link is from Reason.com on regular net. They are a great service.
Okay enough of my support for them http://reason.com/reasontv/2013/01/07/katherine-mangu-ward-talks-bitcoins-on-s
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Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: Trappy on January 31, 2013, 05:26 am
I learned of SR from gawker. I read more about it from a big thread on BB.

Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: shastafarian on January 31, 2013, 05:36 am
I found this place whilst lurking various imageboards.

Crazy to see it's being covered by TV and gawker.
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: PrinciplyUncertain on January 31, 2013, 08:35 am
Even though I'm a linux nerd and know all about cryptography and am a big fan of GNUPG, I had never heard of Tor.   I found out about SR simply by searching "buy drugs online" and looking at the first article that came up in the search results.  The first thing I did was download Tor and then find out the URL for this place.
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: alpinespring on January 31, 2013, 08:44 am
The first thing I did was download Tor and then find out the URL for this place.

lmao right on.

i dont actually remember how i found SR and people IRL always ask me like "i still dont understand how you found this, its amazing"
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: seretonman on January 31, 2013, 08:49 am
I can't remember, but I like it more than facebook!
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: LeveinkLeve on January 31, 2013, 09:08 am
bad company?  ;D
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: kittenfluff on January 31, 2013, 10:07 am
Every year The Guardian (a mainstream liberal-left UK broadsheet newspaper) and Mixmag (a UK dance music magazine) organise a drug-use survey to track how people's drug use is changing over time. Not sure if it's UK only, or if they advertise it in other countries. Anyhow, I ALWAYS fill it out, doing my part to show that not all drug users are mental crack-heads destined for oblivion, that the vast majority of drug-users are just like people you meet every day, that they ARE people you'd meet everyday and never know.

So this year one of the questions was 'have you ever bought drugs from the Silk Road?'. Eh, I thought, not yet but I'm gonna! I was already familiar with Tor (I already had Tor on my phone), so finding it was easy once I knew it was there. Biggest arse-ache to date has been getting bitcoins....

So fucking happy - the internet is awesome!  ;D
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: Oeufalacoke on January 31, 2013, 10:08 am
On CNN you guys are terrorist
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: irreverant and irrelevant on January 31, 2013, 10:31 am
Found SR through a friend who found it online by being a huge internet geek and spending most of his free time on different forums (which I guess I'm doing now, so who am I to judge?). 
I think its the greatest thing in the world, but I'm concerned about it getting too much publicity.
I think that if the major cable news media found out about SR and started running stories, they would only be negative, as Oeufalacoke points out.  I could just see a prime time Fox story about how "this black market internet site is flooding our country with drugs, and its happening right under our noses".  That would scare the soccer moms of America, as does everything they don't understand, and they would put pressure on LE to start cracking down.  Then you would have LE infiltrating the site (much more than the do already), and placing orders, learning what type of packages to look for, customs prosecuting anyone they can catch to the full extent, etc.
Anyone agree that SE is better off staying under the radar?

Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: DarkNadge on January 31, 2013, 12:45 pm
Anyone agree that SE is better off staying under the radar?

I defo think that the more of radar it is the better. Attract to much attention and more pressure will come to stop it!

I found SR because it was on headline news on TV for selling guns. After a bit of research i found out that all you needed was tor and a link and i was away... I feel part of something great and it still feels a bit surreal. However i don't mention it to any1 not even my mates and i have kept my new contact quiet!
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: zeromancer on January 31, 2013, 03:36 pm
I first hear about SR in another drug-related forum I belong to. That was a long time ago, now "everyone" knows about SR due to all the media attention. :/
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: summer on January 31, 2013, 03:41 pm
yeah
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: Namarrg0n on January 31, 2013, 03:54 pm
Found a .onion adress in the clearnet...was like - wtf? I know the Internet but this...realized I didn't knew the internet.
1 Year ago, when I bought bitcoins for about 4€ each :-D
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: mrlavish on January 31, 2013, 04:01 pm
Someone on a clearnet forum I am part of briefly mentioned the ability to buy drugs online and posted the process to access SR, they turned around and 10 minutes later deleted it. I just happened to be there and caught it.

That was August of 11, I then did some research and logged on a few week later obtained my 1st BTC and made my 1st purchase, it's been downhill ever since then.
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: mrlavish on January 31, 2013, 04:11 pm
forgot to add. BTC were about $1.90 back then. Should have bought a bunch a sat on them, lol.
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: EastCoastCollective on January 31, 2013, 04:18 pm
Thank you GOOGLE
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: scrooge on January 31, 2013, 06:59 pm
I saw it on Fox Bus. News.(stossel).
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: kittenfluff on February 01, 2013, 01:48 pm
/bump
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: AAfive on February 01, 2013, 05:38 pm
A friend had mentioned they used it to get their smoke, started searching and reading a few articles until I found a screenshot of SR where they didn't have the URL blacked out....  Been here ever since.

-AA
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: MsMETHeMETHics on February 02, 2013, 07:34 am
Six months ago, while sitting through a boring movie I decided to google random thoughts. I googled "buy illegal drugs online" and the first result was the gawker article. Out of the thousands of googles that I have done in my lifetime that has by far been the best.
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: CallmeBruce on February 02, 2013, 08:41 am
This is sad for SR but, it was a front page article in a national newspaper, complete witha screen grab of the Sr home page.
Ti was talking about the 'evils" I said to myself YESSSSSSS! and got on-board
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: bankofgt on February 02, 2013, 08:48 am
Funny as Fuck...... most people stumbled upon smooth as silk road by googling   "buy drugs online" I was actually trying to buy pure pharma.. methamphetamine , methedrine but it was only in 5mg doses and expensive as hell.  Silk Road has been an absolute revelation for me as I think it has for most of the fellow fiends here.. I average three hours a day... more on the weekends I just cant get enough just wish sometimes the forums and marketplace would load a bit quicker though... mainly an issue logging in
Title: Re: How I found SR
Post by: mrxempire on February 02, 2013, 09:33 am
I found silk road from hearing about a  17 year old computer nerd in my town who supplied my whole town with MDMA during last summer (the concert season). I'm a big fan of computers and drugs so i thought: If this kid can do it, so can I (im 21). So, I learned the whole process from a friend of mine who knew about tor and bitcoins, and here I am. Some people treat me as a genius because I can safely use this site. If only they knew how easy it was hahahahah