Silk Road forums
Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: Hoatzin on February 14, 2012, 08:22 pm
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Unless you know someone in real life that has successfully purchased from here, you are taking it on faith that this is not a honeypot for the feds. Or the market could be legit but an individual vendor could be a cop or working with the cops. I have been lurking for a while now, and believe my security setup is tight. And I'm so close to ordering... however I can't get over the possibility that a purchase from SR will land me in jail.
Simple possession charges quickly become interstate trafficking felonies.
And I don't believe that the feds won't arrest buyers. This is America. They really like to put people in prison here.
How did you get over THE FEAR?
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How did you get over THE FEAR?
There's a risk with everything you do, even more so when buying drugs from a hidden forum over Tor. The best way to "get over the fear", as you call it, is to read through the different sections of this forum, make sure you understand how things are done, make sure you research the security and lack of anonymity when using BTC and so on. You can read through a number of posts on this forum where users say that it's ok, and that everything will work, and that the chance of you actually being arrested is slim to none. At the end of the day, you are the one who has to decide whether or not you are comfortable taking that risk.
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I ordered LSD for my first buy. No fear at all, it's just paper after all :)
Just make a small purchase from a trusted vendor, and it should be fine.
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SR is a very good tool that shouldnt be abused.
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Simple possession charges quickly become interstate trafficking felonies.
And I don't believe that the feds won't arrest buyers. This is America. They really like to put people in prison here.
How did you get over THE FEAR?
Yeah, you're really playing with fire when you order from SR. The best you can do is put your faith in a trusted vendor and encrypt your communications and the PC or USB drive you used to access the Tor network.
There's a constant turnover of vendors & buyers here. I honestly think most vendors just get tired of always worrying about getting busted. How do you get over the fear? You don't, you just learn to live with it.
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I got over the fear by thinking that this must be a helluva honeypot if you can fake a few hundred people shooting the shit on the forums every day :D
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The best you can do is put your faith in a trusted vendor and encrypt your communications and the PC or USB drive you used to access the Tor network.
I prefer to GPG encrypt /all/ messages sent to buyers and sellers on Silk Road. Sadly, not everyone understands that they should reply with an encrypted message if they receive an encrypted message. It is not up to the person receiving the encrypted message to decide of the reply is "sensitive" enough to encrypt or not encrypt. If you receive an encrypted message, you encrypt your reply as well.
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Keep an attorney on retainer, put a strong emphasis on anonymity, and go from there.
Odds are, you'll be fine.
It's hard to prove possession if you don't accept the delivery. Read as much as you can on controlled delivery.
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I ordered LSD for my first buy. No fear at all, it's just paper after all :)
Just make a small purchase from a trusted vendor, and it should be fine.
+1. Same as me. Besides, even if you happen to order from a vendor who happens to be running a honeypot, it takes a whole chain of mistakes on your part for this to actually turn into a conviction. You're innocent until proven guilty, and they can't prove who placed an order based only on the shipping address. Unwittingly having your house used as a drop point isn't a felony, and that's exactly what keeps happening to all of us. ;)
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Unless you know someone in real life that has successfully purchased from here, you are taking it on faith that this is not a honeypot for the feds. Or the market could be legit but an individual vendor could be a cop or working with the cops. I have been lurking for a while now, and believe my security setup is tight. And I'm so close to ordering... however I can't get over the possibility that a purchase from SR will land me in jail.
Simple possession charges quickly become interstate trafficking felonies.
And I don't believe that the feds won't arrest buyers. This is America. They really like to put people in prison here.
How did you get over THE FEAR?
There's nothing to fear when in reality we're all law enforcement. ;D
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once you have a couple felonies already that leap of faith becomes way easier. Its already hard to find jobs and places to live, whats one more going to do? >:(