I’m sure by now many of you have heard about Silk Road. It is the anonymous marketplace. It is the Amazon.com for all things illegal. And as anarchist activists we owe it to ourselves to at least understand its potential and browse its goods and services. I am going to give you the directions to Silk Road. I am also going to tell you where it leads.
Silk Road is not easy to get to, for various reasons. If you want to get there you are going to have to anonymize yourself online first. This is something you should have done a while ago as a self-respecting anarchist. If you haven’t yet taken the necessary steps to do so then we need to play some quick catch-up. There are two main ways to anonymize yourself online, Tor and VPN’s. Both have their pros and cons. To connect to Silk Road, however, only Tor will do.
Although Tor is amazing technology and continues to improve over time, it is not fail safe. To be sure, nothing is. This is why I encourage you to take every necessary precaution you can to protect yourself while online. I have said it before and I will continue to say it; if you are running a Windows operating system you need to switch to Linux. The future is open-source software and the sooner you make it your way of life the better off we will all be.
Even though I highly recommend running Linux full-time when online, it is not necessary in order to visit Silk Road. But you will need Tor. The full installation of Tor, however, can be confusing, especially for non-techies. Fortunately, running Tor has now been made extremely easy with the advent of Tor Browser. Simply follow the directions pertaining to your operating system and you will be running Tor in moments.
Once you have Tor running successfully you will need to direct your browser to the Silk Road URL. There you should be able to create an anonymous profile. But when you do so, please choose a username and password that you have never used before. It is better to be safe than sorry when visiting the internet’s red light district. [Editor's Note: As of December 2011 it seems that Silk Road has changed its address. Please visit the supposedly new Silk Road URL. Update: Silk Road has decided to remove the sale of weapons from the site and moved it to a new location called The Armory. Second Update: The Armory has been closed for lack of a healthy market.]
After you finish creating your profile you should be able to browse through a wide selection of illegal goods and services. For many people, myself included, this may be as close as they will come to trading in the first online free-market. If, however, you are eager to buy and sell on Silk Road, you will have to come into possession of Bitcoins. Although I have been, and continue to be, critical of the Bitcoin currency, I must admit that it has been an amazing facilitator of trade in the online black market, and for that I am happy to be wrong. Again, if you are going to start trading in Bitcoins you are far safer doing so on a Linux operating system. [Editor's Note: I no longer dislike Bitcoin and am actually a huge proponent of the alternative currency. Read I Was Wrong About Bitcoin to understand why I changed my mind.]
So, now that you know how to get to Silk Road I encourage you to do so, but with the utmost safety in mind. Silk Road, and its future competitors, will come under severe attack in the coming years. At the moment, the goods and services to be found on Silk Road are limited. But this is only because it is in its infancy. While psychedelic drugs and fully automatic rifles may seem wonderfully shocking at the moment, we must not limit our imaginations.
I fully suspect that other, more revolutionary, services will come about in time. Surely, professional assassins will offer their services as well. I believe this could open the door to contracts being put out on the lives of corrupt politicians, judges and police officers. After all, the idea of assassination markets has been floating around in anarchist circles for some time. Regardless of whether or not you condone violent insurrection against the state or state officials, these markets seem to me to be very likely to happen in the near future.
What other goods and services do you think are likely to pop up in an anonymous marketplace? I would love to read your ideas below.
You can use this link without TOR> https://dkn255hz262ypmii.tor2web.org/index.php?
No, you cannot hire a professional assassin, if you make the enourmous decision to take a human life you have to take all responsibility and do it yourself. Gaetano Bresci, Sante Caserio…
This is the one that is working for me.
http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/
hey buddy, i’ve been trying for close to a week to get on the Silk rD. ive got tor running , but no luck. email me wvbertrand766@mail.cfcc.edu , thanks a bunch! vance123
I think that other one is just a message board of some sort.
its working but i dont know if they are allowing new members.. i hope so for my case…gotta love the underground
hey buddy, i’ve been trying for close to a week to get on the Silk rD. ive got tor running , but no luck. email me wvbertrand766@mail.cfcc.edu , thanks a bunch! vance
I agree. it is done very well, and for a good cause if I may say so.
I like the layout too.
i agree.. just runs slow with my Tor connection which sucks… but being “away” from the government while online is a great feeling nonetheless
Why in gods name, do u write this!?
Anarchy in all glory but u realize that if the site gets big enough the government will shut it down one why or the other..
yeah they will try… by the way… message on here.. i need someone who can trace a person who tried to scam me …
I still cannot connect to the silk road, am trying to use the most recent url
http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/ with no luck
Any advise will be greatly appreciated
Ciao A&S
cops everywhere in this fuckin thread… yall are so pathetic and obvious it aint even funny.
also
been a member on sr for a lil while and was able to log on up until about an hour ago when it stopped letting me log in altogether (kept saying ‘login not accepted’ or some shit when it usually lets me in after trying three times or so). fucking annoying, hope they fix it soon……
I have a question. I had never seen this anonymous market and i’d like to enter, but they require a “withdrawal PIN”. What’s that?
silkroadvb5piz3r.onion
Unable to connect
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network
connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Aurora is permitted to access the Web.
When I try to register it says I need a withdrawal PIN, anyone know what this is?
how do i check to see if my firewall or proxy permits Aurora to acces onion sites. It looks up normal sites and a couple of onion sites, but not most, and expecialy not S.Road
To the person who asked how to get silk road through the firewall, and this is for any other place besides silk road, as well: Just hit the start button, type “windows firewall” in the searchbox and when “firewall” comes up click on it. When the page comes up, go to the list on the left and click oh “allowing a program (or a site) through windows firewall. It will then walk you right through it and it’s easy. That one lil step has saved a lotta frustration for me, hope it does for you, too.:)
If tor is on, there is no reason why you should be able to visit a few onion sites and not SR. You need a good connection for SR however and what seems like way to long is just not quite long enough. Their is another site called the farmers market, never have used it but they have other legit sites popping up. there is a site on the tor project that allows you to check your tor status, if it’s up or not. even if the onion is green, tor still might not be running. and as for bitcoins, if they get below 3, buy as many as you can, that’s about the bottom i’ve seen. I exchanged for 300 when they were at 2.5, exchanged them the other day for almost 2 1/2 times that much. Nice!!! One last thing for tor, get it on your iphone, do a little war driving, and use random wifi to plug in, probably unnecessary, but that’s when you start feeling like an enigma within a secret.
Do you have a link to this farmer’s market website?
It’s vynox6ys2jjswhxq.onion. It does not use bitcoins and it is a bit of a hassle to sign up, but just follow the instructions. Let me know what you think about that one. I’ve got a couple more. But SR is hard to beat. Their product can be exceptional, maybe a bit overpriced though unless you’re buying higher quantities. Peace.
nice1 rocket
Im on tor and the farmers market website does not work. nether the SR
I’ve read all the questions that have been written and I really liked the original article because it shed some light where others for whatever reason appear hesitant to go, so in what will most likely turn into a stream of conscious information dump, I am going to try to shed some more light on all of this. So clearly all of you are concerned about your privacy. I equate privacy with freedom and the idea of someone trying to discover my identity, judging my decisions, and actually trying to take action against them makes me very angry. Tor, in some part, was originally designed to provide some cover for political dissidents in hostile countries attempting to communicate with the outside world. I think in some ways that describes all of us. So first of all let’s get Tor to work. I have installed Tor on Windows, Mac, Linux, and jailbroken iPhones. A quick side, there is no half way with this stuff. You either do it right or you might as well just go peddle your shit down at the corner. Get Linux!!! For anyone serious about identity protection, Linux provides a flexibility that is not available in other OS. I’m not saying it is necessarily the easiest OS to deal with. I’ve gone through more than a few reinstalls but you have COMPLETE control over your ride so to speak. The tor website does a good job of explaining how to install TOR to a point. I think proxy settings is the problem most of you are having. Open the Vidalia control panel. Under the General tab, the proxy application you should be using is polipo. Now got to the Advanced tab. Click Use TCP Connection. Address will be 127.0.0.1 : 9150. Hopefully this should clear up issues with Tor. If you have a jailbroken phone, installing is very simple. You will need safari download manager, iFile, and sbsettings. Download the Deb provided on the Tor website. When you download it, if you have the programs I mentioned it is simple as clicking install. It will add the sid77.slackware.it/ios source and you can download Tor mobile and sbsetting toggle switch. When you are connected to wifi, instead of using 127.0.0.1 : 9150, use 127.0.0.1 : 8118. One thing that I did not see mentioned was changing your MAC address. If your IP is where you live, your MAC address is your name. Each OS has MAC changing programs. This needs to be done everytime you use TOR. I have my computer set to randomize my MAC everytime I turn it on. Ok, so that’s TOR. Now everything else I’m going to mention, if posted on any number of other sites, immediately draws fire from every ‘upstanding’ individual out there, so I’m hoping that everyone here is enlightened and won’t give me shit about this because I’m only trying to help you. Now if you are serious about privacy, the next step is to only using hacked wifi when connecting to Tor. This is where Linux comes in very handy. More specifically, I run Backtrack 5 which installs an arsenal of hack programs including Gerix wifi cracker. With a click of a button, I can crack WEP in 5 minutes and WPA in less than an hour. For WPA, I have a 35 gig word library which helps. Using hacked wifi with TOR and MAC changer is ultimate deniability. In addition, with MAC changer even if some asshole figures out you are using his wifi, the MAC address showing up on his network does not match yours because you know what you are doing. I have 8 wifi networks within range of my house. I have cracked everyone of them. Nearly every hotel and some fastfood restraunts have open wifi which is handy for the quick transaction on your iPhone. Check out firesheep, tons of fun. Ok, so we have TOR, MAC, cracked wifi. Now actual physical safety. Always have a one click button on you computer to do a complete hard drive erase. And I’m talking minimum 30 sweeps. Now, how many of you have read the Stealing the Network series? If you call yourself an anarchist, you MUST read this series. In fact, I’m going to give you a link for the first book in PDF form, It will fuel your paranoia for years to come. But seriously, it presents dozens of situations that you probably have just never thought of and wish you had. In my computer I use for large transactions, I have lined the hard drive with thermite based on some advice I got from one of these books. In the end, it’s about physical evidence. They need that information directly off of your hard drive to really fuck you. So it seems like most of you are using TOR for SR. That’s great!!! Here are some tips. First of all, getting bitcoins is not always that simple. Unless your mining in some university class room with 30+ slaves, you’re going to need to find and maintain a connection. There are websites like get-bitcoin.com that you can use but they either expose your identity or take forever. On SR, they have vendors that do nothing but change moneypaks into bitcoins. The key to SR is alway to read the comments and check how long they’ve been doing business. If it’s a scam, and I did get scammed once, they will kick them off within hours if you report them but not before you sent them a moneypak worth several hundred dollars. For the most part, the people that I do business with on SR are friendly as hell, probably because they are always stoned out of their minds. Farmers Market allows straight cash transaction which I have no problem. It is no less risky than any other transaction in the deep. I also saw reference to law enforcement. I’m sure they are out there and there just doing there job even though I don’t make a habit of being around them, but I will admit, I was curious as to how much they knew so I requested a drive-along with an higher-ranking police officer under the guise that it was my dream to be a cop. Local law enforcement doesn’t know shit and they don’t have time to be chasing pot smoking tor users. The feds are more what I’m worried about but I have had discussions on SR and it appears that they are focusing their attention on suppliers. So here is a little game. I admit I originally did this just for for fun, hypothetically of course. So there is all this talk about the 1% and 99%. Well, anyone using TOR and SR are the one percent, because of however many billions of people there are on this planet, the number of regular users I see would only fill a small classroom. So what does this mean? Well, all of a sudden you don’t have to go meet some shady character down in the White Castle parking lot to pay for some shit that looks like grass clippings, if you are lucky. But now that you are SR savvy, you now have connections to the California, Canadian, and even European drug trade straight from growers. You can get last year’s high times best overall with the click of a button. So just tell a friend that you know somebody who knows somebody that has a really good connection plus they’ll deliver by mail and just drop an email address. Set up a hushmail account, and just watch the orders come in. You just knew somebody, that’s all. And you can charge insane margins and still not rip people off. At the very least, you can smoke for free. Have fun with that. Alright, SOPA. Yes it’s bullshit, but even if it or something like it get’s passed it won’t stop th anarchist. So, I assume a lot of you still download torrents. You can download torrents using TOR. Most people say don’t do it, because it’s not fair to others, well fuck that, we’re talking about your privacy so configure your torrent program to use it. I use demonoid and if you can get an invite, get it. I don’t have to really worry about viruses using Linux but I still scan my downloads and I have yet to find anything. Pirates Bay sucks. ISO torrent is ok but is full of malware an all of that. If you are using Windows and are downloading off of anything but demonoid, you might as well open up your computer and take a giant shit on it. Now, I’m assuming if SOPA or some SOPAish bill passes, that some of these sites will either get blocked or shutdown. Here is the key to any of this. Always, always be looking for new places to go. Like the farmer’s market. I know that SR will eventually be shutdown or it will have ‘technical’ difficulties. Have backups. Now, the next subject, I admit I have only just begun to look into, and exposure to viruses or god knows what may be an issue for some (see Windows), but Russian, Ukrainian based torrent sites are impressive and they are set up similar to demonoid, in fact in order to ‘join’ one of those I saw you had to make available over 5 terabytes of downloadble goods. There was one guy running 40 terabytes of shit. That is crazy, and it had everything you’d want, music movies whatever. Just pick usernames that sound Russian though. Don’t sign up as Uncle Sam. So I hope all of this has raised more questions, because honestly if all you are worried about is getting TOR to turn on and off, you need to step back and make sure you’ve hought everything out. Peace.
Excellent comment! Thank you for delving into the issue so thoroughly. I’m sure it will help clue in the passersby.
My first question is, can you link to where to get Backtrack 5?
Second question, I’ve honestly not been too worried about SOPA and PIPA because my attitude is that it will push people to develop alternate means of internet communication, such as .onion sites. Is this rational thinking? When I browse .onion sites it feels like I am going back in time about 13 years with website quality and internet speed. Is there any chance of the .onion sites catching up with awesomeness of today’s websites? Also, is it true that .onion sites are not exposed in location or ownership?
Thanks again!
Absolutely, check out http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/
There are several different configs that you can custom download. The easiest way to do it, which I’m sure you already know, is to mount the iso on a flash drive and install it like that. Quick and easy and if for some reason you just can’t let go of Windows just partition your drive so you can boot either OS. The only problem is having Windows on your hard drive still leaves you open to viruses. You can always use Wine on linux which kind of sucks but it will allow you to run most Windows programs. Also if you ever need to reinstall, just pop in the flash drive and there you go. Backtrack 5 is bare bones. It doesn’t have the flourish of Narwhal. It is utilitarian which is exactly what I love about it. It has MAC changer, wifi crack, and a ton of other things that let’s just say are very high powered hack tools just built right in. As for onion sites, I’m sure there are differing opinions about this but again they are very utilitarian. They are there for one reason only. I mean I’d use SR just as much if it was text based. Sometimes I am impressed that the web design is as detailed as it is. So, in fact, you probably could design an onion website comparable to a non-Onion website but it would require more download time which like you said is already an issue. And the reason for this is the basic design of the onion grid. Your connection is being diverted to mutliple locations which slows everything down considerably. Try this. Open up TORRC in notebook or whatever and add the following:
# Try for at most NUM seconds when building circuits. If the circuit isn’t
# open in that time, give up on it. (Default: 1 minute.)
CircuitBuildTimeout 5
# Send a padding cell every N seconds to keep firewalls from closing our
# connections while Tor is not in use.
KeepalivePeriod 60
# Force Tor to consider whether to build a new circuit every NUM seconds.
NewCircuitPeriod 15
# How many entry guards should we keep at a time?
NumEntryGuards 8
This shoulp help. Your last question brings up that wonderful little group of hackers called Anonymous. The fact that they reference a shitty Natalie Portman movie is my first turn off, and before anyone gets upset about me ragging on V for Vendetta (I actually kind of enjoyed watching it), the whole Anonymous movement just by virtue of being a movement is really not anarchist at all. They have their own doctrine in a sense that they will judge you by, so fuck that. But the fact remains that they have some heavy hitters who I have actually seen hack onion websites and expose identities. The great thing about Anonymous is they are media whores and want everyone to know they were there so they usually tag websites very thoroughly so guess what, don’t go there. So, no, onion is definitely not completely secure but you are given clues that you must heed. In fact, the best onion type setup is to actually to buy dedicated proxy addresses to run through. I’ve seen them all over but I have one in Germany that works very well. There are several IRCs that if you have the time or just want to be entertained after getting your SR package and smoking it, you can get a pulse on what’s going on with the blackhats. I know this sounds stupid, but pick a female login name, and they will tell you everything. Consider the demographic.
You mention how Ukrainian torrent sites, for example, will prevent users from downloading unless they, themselves, are contributing by uploading.
One of the downsides of Tor is that it is slow. Anybody can use the resources of Tor, and only donors supply resources. We have a sort of tragedy of the commons playing out. Is there any way to incentivize people to supply resources to the Tor network, say, in exchange for quicker download time.
That is to say, perhaps there is a possibility of making the network tiered. I know that doesn’t sit well with socialists, but it does with me. What are your thoughts?
Hi, you abviously know what you are talking about , and i’ve been in contact with people at the tor website and the can’t get me strait. I tried what u said about making sure to us polpio. I had a box for this, but it wouldn’t let me check it. Next , I didn’t have an advanced. I just erased and downloaded the latest version of TOR. I have been trying for weeks to get on any onion site. I walked my sister through it over the phone and she was on SR in 30 minutes. I really don’t understand. If you can help me that would be great. I’m not a computer wiz and need step by step instructions. Please really, please help me figure this out. everytime i try it times out with that try again later. it says it took too long. may be my firewall, my connection.
Two quick questions. What OS are you using and are just having trouble with SR or all onion sites?
Realistically, the only way to do that would be to make it a hard and fast rule. If you want to play, you must also be a relay. I’m amazed they haven’t implemented either this or a mandatory contribution (paying for it). But until then, unless you understand the importance of providing additional relays, people will use this resource with no regard for the resulitng decrease in tor performance. I had mentioned that originally tor was set up to provide foreign dissidents the ability to communicate anonymously. Paying for or acting as a relay in ths case could pose a problem and who would be the one to determine exemptions on this. I think the slow speed, at this point, speaks to the purity of the system, however these problems are begging for a new solution.
Mind you, this is way over my head, but I read somewhere on a forum about being able to put Bitcoin donations in the header or something, so that users send micro payments for the content they access.
Do you think it is feasible to write code that allows users to attach Bitcoin payments with Tor access? They seem like peanut butter and chocolate to me.
Yes, I’m sure it could be done, but you would have to be willing to donate a ‘currency’ that in the following week could triple in value. I would rather buy an outside proxy for cash.
wtf is the withdrawal pin? help
So if you are just signing up, it’s going to ask for you to choose a username, a password, repeat the password, pin, repeat pin. This is when you choose a pin, whatever pin you want. If you transfer bitcoins to another account, you’ll need it. Once, you have registered, you can go to profile and change it not that you would need to. I guess the reason is they have phishing sites that can capture your username and password and then access and empty your account. I’ve never had any problems but I keep my balance low except for when I’m shopping.
Regarding the volatility in Bitcoins Value there are a few ways to hedge the exposure and and trade regardless bitcoins actual value !
I for myself use a skript where every incoming BTC value is automaticaly shorted on Botcoinica for example..but soon we?ll have samrt contracts in the bitcoin code and then we`ll see options / futures / derviatives trading which will make Bitcoin volatility a boon for the speculators but hide it for the “normale” users who acutally want to use it as money!
Rocket i Like your writing style and i see you know what you are talking about ..
BTW TOr with Btc would be awesome..as would diaspora & osiris !
waiting for the day all 4 interact and BAM IN YA FACE we`ll free the world
Hey, I appreciate that. Anonymity, both physical and virtual, has been an obsession of mine for sometime. Countless nights without sleep, the inherent solitude that comes with this side of your life, and a paranoia that you can’t help but think is justified knowing what you know now (now know), all become the mortar that holds together the privacy you seek. I’ve had to learn to balance it with the world I live outside. And the one thing that I get most excited about is learning new things, I love it because maybe it completes a puzzle or maybe it’s the beginning of a whole new one. Speaking of faceless money, I have spent a lot of time looking at this possibility from many angles including virtual and physical and a combination of the two in many different contexts. The bitcoin’s volatility actually can be a good thing if you’re using it as a conduit. Have you ever tracked bitcoin against different markets? I’m in the process but thought you might have some info. Also. what do you exchange for bitcoins? I know paypal got trashed even though I see it here and there. I use moneypaks (Walmart not Walgreens). Being able to setup anonymous paypal and online bank accounts also really helps. Lodi dodi
Ha , ur speaking my language absolutely..honestly i am a little bit more uneducated on the tech side but i am eager to learn (since readin DAEMON lol)..and doing it every day & night where possible (while i am ratracing the hell out of it for my plans on going PT asap).
I get my coins from ym rigs (nearly 8ghash/s right now (ben 17ghash/s for a while but had an bad investement with another story and needed the money so i seel them right now..also FPGA gonna be the better waqy to go soon ..even if i dont pay for electricity at the place i have them running..(not stolen..i am anarcho capitlist..won`t to that)
also i can buy them with paysafecards exchange them via virwox (hassle & fees add up fast) , or in cash from a few guys here in europe)..
I did not track it against other markets yet (simpy no time but lots of forex trading charting expertise) but want to do soon (as i am opening up an exchange somwhere- got good connections so i am sepa zone but still can do whatever i want as long as i pay taxes there (SRL)..)
i think we should have an torchat sometime soon..maybe we can help each other ..i have to learn and you need to ??.. we`ll see :9
Hey, sorry I didn’t get back sooner. Hit me up at knuth9805@hushmail.com
convert this and put it in the subject line… just for the hell of it
01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110000 01101111 01101100 01101001 01100011 01100101
harharhar exactly what i had in mind
have to go now ! you`ll from me soon
yo Rocket ! Hope ur well & to hear from ya soon!
Damn time flies, check it, peace
The site seems really cool.. having a lot of trouble figuring out the bit coins. The prices are high..
Hello everyone. I’ve read through the entire comments section in hopes of finding a solution to the issue I’m having. Somebody has actually brought it up although nothing I’ve read or tried seems to be fixing it. I have tor installed and am trying to get to SR. I have the correct link (just pulled it from Wiki) but when I use tor to attempt to connect to SR I get ……
“Unable to connect. Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at silkroadvb5piz3r.onion. The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection. If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.”
I’ve been trying for a good two hours and I am unsure if this is only for SR or for all onion sites because, embarrassingly enough, I don’t know any other .onion URL’s to even test out : /
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, especially from you Rocket. Thanks a bunch guys
Go to check.torproject.org to see if your browser is running Tor and make sure you have your torbutton toggled on, green onion. Peace.
Everything was configured correctly. Just took about 36 hours for it to start working. Weird
I’ve noticed a big difference between connections and I think it’s just the speed of the Internet connection which I know sounds stupid to say but you can’t believe the number of people I’ve talked to who think the strength of wifi connectivity equates to good Internet. I hate to tell them they can have max wifi bars and no Internet connection. 36 hours though? Damn… but I assure you, it’s worth it. Peace.
I dont get it ! somehow my messages are not displayed here? LAg? or simply censored ^^
Hey, we have been trying to get on Silk Road for a while, and have had no luck. Have they changed the address from the old one? We have an account but cant seem to get onto the site. Please let me know.
Thanks
also, has anyone used vynox6ys2jjswhxq.onion like silkroad? seems to be the same but different. called farmers market… would like to hear some imput. thanks again!
http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/index.php/silkroad/home
FM lacks the scam protection that SR provides with the use of an escrow account and doesn’t use bitcoin (at least time I checked FM)
But you can buy all the schwag you want (no thanks)
Any decent alternatives to SR? I’ve used it a few times and its nice but even with them moving the Weapons section to a separate site its been taking so much heat (since the Gawker article.) Dutch Green Club? I don’t really trust FM either, but they’re small fish as someone above mentioned.
I’m sure u no the Blackmarket reloaded. Anyone have any comments on that one I’ve never used it.
I found a description of computer security bordering on insanity but gives you an idea of what some people do to maintain privacy. I’ll summarize it. The ‘cage’ area containing the computer set-up, walls made from quarter-inch steel sheets, steel doors six steel hinges, drives protected with a hardware encryption IDE controller that takes a USB dongle holding the key to allow to function and protected by a memorized passphrase. All data is stored on PGPdisk, which uses a second key stored on another USB key, protected by a memorized passphrase. Thermite powder in the harddrive iginited by a magnesium strip if a door wire is tripped and the magnesium will ignite in 5 seconds if an alarm is not deactivated, it will melt the hard drive in less than 30 seconds. The systems use Linux! System hardening is performed and computers are shut down when not in use. Encryption of all internet communication with a combination of onion routing, encrypted meshes, and by generating misdirection traffic. And there is more but I’m tired of writing. So anyway, that is fucking crazy but interesting to consider. And about the drug sites, one’s pretty much like the other. I don’t know why you wouldn’t use SR while its still up and running. Its the original recipe, I mean an escrow account buying drugs. That’s classy. I don’t remember the last time I was afraid I’d get shot when I was buying drugs. Hell, I don’t even remember how it felt.. Any politician who thinks anti-law drugs don’t increase violence and not the other way around should loosen the fuck up and buy some weed on SR, it’s chill from start to finish and they will never know your name much less see your face. You never even have to drive with pot in your car because the mailman brings it to your front door, Definitely a paradigm shift! Peace.
They also have available metallic water-based paint that will block wifi from leaking, put in on under whatever final coat of paint you apply
Has anyone encountered any trouble login
onto sr? I have been trying for 5 days now
without any luck.
Every thing checked, all systems good to go!
Anyone else same issue?
Having the same problems as you exactly
Having problems too
Is there anyone that knows what the hell is going on with silk road?
It has been more than a week now since i was able to log on.
Any info would be great.
cheers
i was unable to login for 5 days now so i created a new account and that works fine. however still unable to access old account with all the $$
Hi JB,
Lucky you.!
I don’t even get to the login page.
Which web address do u use?
I use http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/
Is that the same you use?
Thanks man
this website has hell of illegal shit guns assassins i think only for uk only and drugs steroids money stolen passports what ever you need is there if you buy something make sure u knw what your doing or ill have the DEA or FBI nocking your front door down in my case i just go in that website because i still can’t believe the shit people put up for sale fucken scary its fun to visit don’t buy nothing just look and you’ll be ok
mate last time i checked, the guns and assassins sections where all gone and they only focused on books, art, and narcotics. The DEA can suck my wiener so can the FBI. America should stop spending money they DON’T even have on a endless war on drug that they will NEVER win, and focus on building op there own country’s economy so they can provide for there own people. Using drugs is a personal choice and should stay a personal choice in a free society. Take Holland for example here you can get all your drug tested for quality even tho it is illegal to have sudden drug like xtc and coke. But just to keep us safe they have test centers everywhere. If America wants to be anti drug they should 1 off all ban the biggest killer off all alcohol which ruins more lives than any drug in the world and is in theory a hard drug since you become physically dependent on it if you use it long enough.