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poledriver said:
I use tor because the stupid sydney morning herald site and others are trying to make people pay for access now and you only get a limited amount of views of articles per month if you dont pay and then you cant access the articles, so I just browse it with tor when that happens.
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I believe you can simply use the Privacy mode in your browser to bypass those restrictions. Private Browsing in Firefox, Incognito in Chrome etc. Clearing your cookies for that particular website should work as well. The way I have bypassed the restrictions in the past, not sure if it still works as my internet has been shit for a couple of weeks, I just searched for the article title in Google and clicked on through. When you (used to?) come referred by Google they let you read the full article.
 
Yeah that probably works, as i still get -

You've reached your limit of FREE articles for this month
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in my safari browser which isnt set to private browsing, but my firefox is set to private browsing and I just checked an article no probs, I thought it worked off my ip. That's good to know cheers.
 
Freedom Hosting host a lot of .onion sites. Including many that are disgusting, their response to critics is if they censor even the worst of the worst, it's still censorship or some crap.

They don't host Silk Road, that was mentioned a few posts back.
 
the reason freedom hosting was mentioned in the SR thread is because Tormail was hosted by freedom hosting and a lot of vendors and buyers from SR use Tormail to communicate.
 
First WA convictions for Silk Road trades

Detectives investigating the clandestine drug dealing website Silk Road have secured their first convictions against West Australians who bought cocaine, ecstasy and cannabis from the online black market.

Two of the convictions were against brothers aged 15 and 17, after police from the technology crime unit and Esperance detectives ran Operation Cinder late last year.

The juveniles were jailed by the Perth Children's Court for a maximum of 12 months on more than a dozen charges of possessing 6.8g of cannabis, 0.7g of cocaine and seven ecstasy pills with intent to sell and supply.

A 26-year-old man, who was charged with attempting to possess drugs from the site, was fined $1000.

Details of the convictions emerged as the father of Churchlands Senior High School student Preston Bridge - who died after taking a synthetic LSD bought online - met Police Minister Liza Harvey yesterday to discuss the growing problem of internet drug trafficking.

Rod Bridge said he was heartened by the first success in targeting the site's activities, but wanted authorities to go after those running the so-called "eBay for drugs".

"I don't want to hear another person tell me you can't shut that site down or chase the organised crime people behind it," Mr Bridge said. "Find the server, the client list because it's being used to kill people."

In February, Mr Bridge's son leapt from a Scarborough hotel balcony after having a "tab" of a synthetic chemical believed to be 25I-NBOMe. A sheet of tabs was bought on Silk Road by another teenager for about $20.

A Sydney teenager, Henry Kwan, died in June after taking the chemical compound and leaping over his parents' apartment balcony.

Police want Silk Road users to know they are being monitored and can be caught.

"Parents who do not actively monitor what sites their children use on computers and smart phones shouldn't be surprised when police execute a search warrant or charge their son with serious offences," Det-Sen. Sgt Troy Douglas said.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/18437383/first-wa-convictions-for-silk-road-trades/
 
mister said:
the reason freedom hosting was mentioned in the SR thread is because Tormail was hosted by freedom hosting and a lot of vendors and buyers from SR use Tormail to communicate.
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Hopefully people will now go to that extra effort to use GPG Tools or PGP to encrypt their email themselves, rather than trusting a third party.
 
poledriver said:
The juveniles were jailed by the Perth Children's Court for a maximum of 12 months on more than a dozen charges of possessing 6.8g of cannabis, 0.7g of cocaine and seven ecstasy pills with intent to sell and supply.
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is this a typo?
 
I guess the thing with those two articles is that it states about the two teens for possession of the drugs then it states directly after (in your link) that a A 26-year-old man was later charged over the seizure and fined $1000, that seems kind of weird.

Whats your thoughts mooms? Am I missing something?
 
it seems the 2 teens have convictions for an undisclosed substance(s)+intent. the 26yo is the last SR arrest by WA police, and is used as an example. he's the one with the weed, coke and extacy.

edit: actually, they may have busted the 2 teens, and found their customer list and transaction record. the 26yo customer received product form the vendors, matching the orders made, was raided, and subsequently fined $1000.
 
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Silk Road as a Self-Regulating Black Market


The last place you might expect to find a singular cultural dedication to high quality products and killer customer service is the digital den of drug-dealers known as Silk Road. The Deep Web black market is among the farthest from the reach of the state. It facilitates an estimated $30 million worth of illegal transactions each year, with impunity, using the concealing tools and ethos of the cypherpunks. It is Chuck Schumer’s worst nightmare. It is also a great case study of a self-regulating black market in action.

It is remarkable that Silk Road was able to overcome its significant coordination challenges to begin with. While traditional black markets rely on intricate in-person trust networks to survive outside of the law, Silk Road is founded on pseudonymity. Merchants know that their property rights will be respected by no formal court. Customers know they can get easily ripped off by an anonymous online dealer, to say nothing of the mysterious chemicals that may lurk in their purchases. Both must initially engage in an iterated dance of blind trust: that neither is a police officer, that promises will be kept, and that neither will snitch. A game theorist might declare this solution concept untenable from the start.

Somehow, Silk Road overcame the odds. Whether due to a strong shared belief in the benefits of peaceful voluntary exchange or for the mere sake of filthy lucre, the community overcame Metcalfe’s dreaded corollary and developed credible trust mechanisms. Some of these perform functions that are widely thought to be only possible through government.

The market’s popular nickname, the “Amazon of illegal drugs,” is apt; Silk Road’s feedback mechanisms and customer services rival that of its more polite relative. Like on Amazon, merchants on Silk Road are subject to constant feedback and ratings from their customers. The standards are as high as the stakes: An improperly packaged shipment from Amazon might be an inconvenience, but on Silk Road they could spell an indictment. Product quality of everything from boutique strands of marijuana to, yes, black tar heroin, is meticulously conveyed in the comment sections of each merchant’s page. Merchants compete for the best ratings and feedback by providing stellar products and delivery to their customers; to fall behind your competitors’ rankings is to succumb to the downward spiral of digital sketchiness and dwindling sales. On Silk Road, service and integrity pay handsomely.

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http://theumlaut.com/2013/08/13/silk-road-as-a-self-regulating-black-market/
 
poledriver said:
Silk Road as a Self-Regulating Black Market


The last place you might expect to find a singular cultural dedication to high quality products and killer customer service is the digital den of drug-dealers known as Silk Road. The Deep Web black market is among the farthest from the reach of the state. It facilitates an estimated $30 million worth of illegal transactions each year, with impunity, using the concealing tools and ethos of the cypherpunks. It is Chuck Schumer’s worst nightmare. It is also a great case study of a self-regulating black market in action.

It is remarkable that Silk Road was able to overcome its significant coordination challenges to begin with. While traditional black markets rely on intricate in-person trust networks to survive outside of the law, Silk Road is founded on pseudonymity. Merchants know that their property rights will be respected by no formal court. Customers know they can get easily ripped off by an anonymous online dealer, to say nothing of the mysterious chemicals that may lurk in their purchases. Both must initially engage in an iterated dance of blind trust: that neither is a police officer, that promises will be kept, and that neither will snitch. A game theorist might declare this solution concept untenable from the start.

Somehow, Silk Road overcame the odds. Whether due to a strong shared belief in the benefits of peaceful voluntary exchange or for the mere sake of filthy lucre, the community overcame Metcalfe’s dreaded corollary and developed credible trust mechanisms. Some of these perform functions that are widely thought to be only possible through government.

The market’s popular nickname, the “Amazon of illegal drugs,” is apt; Silk Road’s feedback mechanisms and customer services rival that of its more polite relative. Like on Amazon, merchants on Silk Road are subject to constant feedback and ratings from their customers. The standards are as high as the stakes: An improperly packaged shipment from Amazon might be an inconvenience, but on Silk Road they could spell an indictment. Product quality of everything from boutique strands of marijuana to, yes, black tar heroin, is meticulously conveyed in the comment sections of each merchant’s page. Merchants compete for the best ratings and feedback by providing stellar products and delivery to their customers; to fall behind your competitors’ rankings is to succumb to the downward spiral of digital sketchiness and dwindling sales. On Silk Road, service and integrity pay handsomely.

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http://theumlaut.com/2013/08/13/silk-road-as-a-self-regulating-black-market/
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That's a good article. Thanks for sharing poledriver.
 
Np's :)

An Interview With A Digital Drug Lord: The Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts (Q&A)

Most black market drug lords don’t give interviews. But the Dread Pirate Roberts isn’t most drug lords. His website, the Silk Road, is designed to allow anyone to buy and sell drugs with the crypto-currency Bitcoin, using the anonymity software Tor to protect their identity. And those same anonymity protections have made Roberts confident enough in his security that he’s even been willing to write about his illicit business under his pseudonym on Silk Road’s user forums and even give short comments to reporters in the past.

Now he’s gone much further. For a magazine profile in the current issue, Roberts engaged FORBES in his first ever extended interview. Over the course of five hours on July 4th, the Dread Pirate answered my questions–all routed through Tor and the Silk Road’s messaging system–on topics ranging from the Silk Road’s history to the site’s business model to his own personal details and motivations. Though dark web entrepreneur was unsurprisingly tightlipped on any information that might even remotely help law enforcement identify him, he did offer a few new revelations: The fact that he’s not actually the founder of the Silk Road, the possibility that the Silk Road may re-introduce weapon sales to the site, and his only-half-joking asking price to acquire the business. (Don’t insult him with bids less than a billion dollars.)

Here’s the full, slightly edited transcript of our conversation.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygre...-lord-the-silk-roads-dread-pirate-roberts-qa/
 
AG: What inspired you to start the Silk Road. Not just philosophically, (that’s covered in lots of your posts on the Silk Road forums) but where did the idea come from?

DPR: I didn’t start the Silk Road, my predecessor did. From what I understand, it was an original idea to combine Bitcoin and Tor to create an anonymous market. Everything was in place, he just put the pieces together.

Oh, apologies, I didn’t know you had a predecessor. When did you take over the Road from him? Before you announced yourself as the Dread Pirate Roberts?

It’s ok, this is the first time I’ve stated that publicly. I’d rather not say exactly when, for his sake mostly, but it was a transition that took some time. I was in his corner from early on and eventually it made sense for me to take the reigns.

Can you tell me anything about the original creator of the Silk Road? How did you meet? And did you acquire the Silk Road from him in a financial deal of some kind, or simply take over the project?

He was well compensated and happy with our arrangement. It was his idea to pass the torch in fact. We met through the site. I had discovered a big vulnerability in the way he had configured the main Bitcoin wallet that was being used to process all of the deposits and withdrawals on the site. At first he ignored me, but I persisted and gained his trust by helping him secure the wallet. From there we became close friends working on Silk Road together.

The Silk Road forums are full of comments from the Dread Pirate Roberts account. Did you write those?

The most I am willing to reveal is that I am not the first administrator of Silk Road.
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well fuck me! all the speculation was right that this isnt the original DPR!!!

There was a couple of very smart SR members who posted prolifically and then just vanished.......I wonder?

Thanks for the post Poledriver
 
mister said:
well fuck me! all the speculation was right that this isnt the original DPR!!!

There was a couple of very smart SR members who posted prolifically and then just vanished.......I wonder?

Thanks for the post Poledriver
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Or... maybe it's still the same owner and he doesn't want any charges that may be filed to include all past transactions on the site. I haven't read the article, nor am I that interested - I think it will turn into a honeypot eventually, if it hasn't already, and the owner would be "smart" to sell, or at the very least, say that he/she has sold it every few years.

There are some articles out there which elude to the identity of DPR, I won't go into detail, but if I were him/her (I wish), then I'd want people to think that I'd sold it as well.
 
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