Re: [DIYbio] Re: Silk Road

Just an FYI folks: it should be obvious that ordering from the Silk Road is anything BUT 100% safe. All it takes is a fake seller to get your Address and you're in trouble.

Also, I fail to see the relevance of this entire thread to DIYbio.

Also (2), a nitpick on the original article-paste this was replying to: while there's no "Weapons Grade Plutonium" on Silk Road, I did see a handgun, drugs used almost exclusively for date-rape, and yellowcake uranium being sold in the forums when I visited months ago to look around. The latter was purchased offlist by someone claiming to have a diplomatic courier. It's anything but the benign free-love-and-harm-to-none hippy-land its proponents make it out to be.

On 25 November 2012 00:16, German Kraut <jb38440@gmail.com> wrote:
How To join the "Silk Road Anonymous Marketplace"
-- Deutsche Anleitung weiter unten -- german translation down below--

1.Download Tor Vidalia Bundle here:
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

2.Install TOR

3. Open TOR and go to this NEW "Silk Road" adress:
http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/index.php/silkroad/home
Down below of the empty login field just press on the green words "click here to join". Than you come to the registration site.

4.Go to "Register" and create account

5.To buy something at Silk Road you neet Bitcoins, so go to any shop in your region and exchange money into Bitcoins,for example here: https://mtgox.com/
For european users this site is better:  https://www.bitcoin.de/en

7.Before you buy any item read the Silk Road Buyer's Guide.
Buyer´s Guide Silk Road Facebook (you need a Facebook account to add the site): http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=215422721877319

8.If you want to be "100% Safe" you have to encrypt your delivery adress with PGP Encryption
PGP Download: http://www.gpg4win.org/index.html
How to use PGP Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SywCI91kfq0
Or this video on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=181222318666631&set=vb.21540082187950...
Very Good Silk Road Guide: http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road
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To order from Silk Road is 100% SAFE because
the system of Silk Road exists of these 3 components:
1. TOR ( anonymous browser)
2. Bitcoin (Anonymous method to payment)
3. PGP (Program to encode delivery adress)
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"Like" Silk Road on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SilkRoadMarketplace


How to access the Silk Road Anonymous Marketplace through TOR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVY1WAGzfyE


Silk Road Buyer´s Guide´s:
http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road
http://www.tumblr.com/blog/mainstreamlos
http://mainstreamlos.blogspot.de/
http://vimeo.com/groups/silkroad
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nicolasc/publications/TR-CMU-CyLab-12-018.pdf
Silk Road Podcast (mp3 download): http://bitly.com/Ur9SPc
Silk Road Tutorial (PDF file download): http://bitly.com/Qfb1uJ
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SilkRoadAnonymousMarketplace
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=215422721877319

Am Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2011 09:27:14 UTC-4 schrieb Bryan Bishop:
finally a use of those bitcoins you've been stashing up.. or a model for anonymous biohacking. (Sorry for the gawker link. Nobody likes them.)

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From: Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org>
Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM
Subject: [tt] The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable
To: t...@postbiota.org, in...@postbiota.org, cyphe...@al-qaeda.net

http://gawker.com/5805928/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imaginable

The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable

 Adrian Chen — Making small talk with your pot dealer sucks. Buying cocaine
can get you shot. What if you could buy and sell drugs online like books or
light bulbs? Now you can: Welcome to Silk Road.

About three weeks ago, the U.S. Postal Service delivered an ordinary envelope
to Mark's door. Inside was a tiny plastic bag containing 10 tabs of LSD. "If
you had opened it, unless you were looking for it, you wouldn't have even
noticed," Mark told us in a phone interview.

Mark, a software developer, had ordered the 100 micrograms of acid through a
listing on the online marketplace Silk Road. He found a seller with lots of
good feedback who seemed to know what they were talking about, added the acid
to his digital shopping cart and hit "check out." He entered his address and
paid the seller 50 Bitcoins—untraceable digital currency—worth around $150.
Four days later the drugs, sent from Canada, arrived at his house.

"It kind of felt like I was in the future," Mark said.


View the gallery

Silk Road, a digital black market that sits just below most internet users'
purview, does resemble something from a cyberpunk novel. Through a
combination of anonymity technology and a sophisticated user-feedback system,
Silk Road makes buying and selling illegal drugs as easy as buying used
electronics—and seemingly as safe. It's Amazon—if Amazon sold mind-altering
chemicals.

Here is just a small selection of the 340 items available for purchase on
Silk Road by anyone, right now: a gram of Afghani hash; 1/8th ounce of "sour
13" weed; 14 grams of ecstasy; .1 grams tar heroin. A listing for "Avatar"
LSD includes a picture of blotter paper with big blue faces from the James
Cameron movie on it. The sellers are located all over the world, a large
portion from the U.S. and Canada.

But even Silk Road has limits: You won't find any weapons-grade plutonium,
for example. Its terms of service ban the sale of "anything who's purpose is
to harm or defraud, such as stolen credit cards, assassinations, and weapons
of mass destruction."

Getting to Silk Road is tricky. The URL seems made to be forgotten. But don't
point your browser there yet. It's only accessible through the anonymizing
network TOR, which requires a bit of technical skill to configure.

Once you're there, it's hard to believe that Silk Road isn't simply a scam.
Such brazenness is usually displayed only by those fake "online pharmacies"
that dupe the dumb and flaccid. There's no sly, Craigslist-style code names
here. But while scammers do use the site, most of the listings are legit.
Mark's acid worked as advertised. "It was quite enjoyable, to be honest," he
said. We spoke to one Connecticut engineer who enjoyed sampling some "silver
haze" pot purchased off Silk Road. "It was legit," he said. "It was better
than anything I've seen."

Silk Road cuts down on scams with a reputation-based trading system familiar
to anyone who's used Amazon or eBay. The user Bloomingcolor appears to be an
especially trusted vendor, specializing in psychedelics. One happy customer
wrote on his profile: "Excellent quality. Packing, and communication. Arrived
exactly as described." They gave the transaction five points out of five.

"Our community is amazing," Silk Road's anonymous administrator, known on
forums as "Silk Road," told us in an email. "They are generally bright,
honest and fair people, very understanding, and willing to cooperate with
each other."

Sellers feel comfortable openly trading hardcore drugs because the real
identities of those involved in Silk Road transactions are utterly obscured.
If the authorities wanted to ID Silk Road's users with computer forensics,
they'd have nowhere to look. TOR masks a user's tracks on the site. The site
urges sellers to "creatively disguise" their shipments and vacuum seal any
drugs that could be detected through smell. As for transactions, Silk Road
doesn't accept credit cards, PayPal , or any other form of payment that can
be traced or blocked. The only money good here is Bitcoins.

Bitcoins have been called a "crypto-currency," the online equivalent of a
brown paper bag of cash. Bitcoins are a peer-to-peer currency, not issued by
banks or governments, but created and regulated by a network of other bitcoin
holders' computers. (The name "Bitcoin" is derived from the pioneering
file-sharing technology Bittorrent.) They are purportedly untraceable and
have been championed by cyberpunks, libertarians and anarchists who dream of
a distributed digital economy outside the law, one where money flows across
borders as free as bits.

To purchase something on Silk Road, you need first to buy some Bitcoins using
a service like Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchange. Then, create an account on Silk
Road, deposit some bitcoins, and start buying drugs. One bitcoin is worth
about $8.67, though the exchange rate fluctuates wildly every day. Right now
you can buy an 1/8th of pot on Silk Road for 7.63 Bitcoins. That's probably
more than you would pay on the street, but most Silk Road users seem happy to
pay a premium for convenience.

Since it launched this February, Silk Road has represented the most complete
implementation of the Bitcoin vision. Many of its users come from Bitcoin's
utopian geek community and see Silk Road as more than just a place to buy
drugs. Silk Road's administrator cites the anarcho-libertarian philosophy of
Agorism. "The state is the primary source of violence, oppression, theft and
all forms of coercion," Silk Road wrote to us. "Stop funding the state with
your tax dollars and direct your productive energies into the black market."

Mark, the LSD buyer, had similar views. "I'm a libertarian anarchist and I
believe that anything that's not violent should not be criminalized," he
said.

But not all Bitcoin enthusiasts embrace Silk Road. Some think the association
with drugs will tarnish the young technology, or might draw the attention of
federal authorities. "The real story with Silk Road is the quantity of people
anxious to escape a centralized currency and trade," a longtime bitcoin user
named Maiya told us in a chat. "Some of us view Bitcoin as a real currency,
not drug barter tokens."

Silk Road and Bitcoins could herald a black market eCommerce revolution. But
anonymity cuts both ways. How long until a DEA agent sets up a fake Silk Road
account and starts sending SWAT teams instead of LSD to the addresses she
gets? As Silk Road inevitably spills out of the bitcoin bubble, its
drug-swapping utopians will meet a harsh reality no anonymizing network can
blur.

Update: Jeff Garzik, a member of the Bitcoin core development team, says in
an email that bitcoin is not as anonymous as the denizens of Silk Road would
like to believe. He explains that because all Bitcoin transactions are
recorded in a public log, though the identities of all the parties are
anonymous, law enforcement could use sophisticated network analysis
techniques to parse the transaction flow and track down individual Bitcoin
users.

"Attempting major illicit transactions with bitcoin, given existing
statistical analysis techniques deployed in the field by law enforcement, is
pretty damned dumb," he says.
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