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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: northsidepk on March 22, 2012, 05:32 am

Title: More secure way to communicate, e-mail or SR message?
Post by: northsidepk on March 22, 2012, 05:32 am
This came up tonight that a vendor thought using e-mail was more secure than using SR's messaging system.

The encryption for both methods was GPG encryption.

I personally believe that e-mail, even anonymous e-mail is much more vulnerable to LE

If a warrant is granted to access that e-mail account, then LE can see all your e-mails

one of which is likely to lead them to you.

The other argument is that SR servers could be compromised by LE, and again lead to you.

What are your thoughts?
Title: Re: More secure way to communicate, e-mail or SR message?
Post by: imprint on March 22, 2012, 05:46 am
i know jack shit about the security contruction of silk road marketplace, just that ovdb (previous open drug .onion board) had better security precautions and read as well some time ago an article about the simple construction of that place... (written by the admin from previous ovdb)
you can't fix that on mail communication in general, it depends on which mail provider, which security precautions has been taken (pgp, gnupgp, etc...) wifi, tor isolated vm, mac address spoofed, etc... most important factor is that all people learn how to use gnupg at least!