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dobbsbob
13y ago
The gateway monitoring argument is also pretty feeble since how are they going to extract ID scans or other info from worldwide gateways or p2p sales. Sure bitcoin is risky if using a major exchange in a western country but good luck getti
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13y ago
Plenty of people on the cryptography mailing list mined the first coins like Hal Finney who wrote he is leaving them for his kids which is why they havent moved. Satoshi buggered off the day Gavin announced he was presenting BTC to the CIA
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13y ago
Their biggest source was Manning, who only had access to US intel. Hence a disproportionate amount of US leaks. If you go through their archives from before the Manning leaks theres plenty of Russia, Canada, Aus, UK and other countries inte
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13y ago
There's a border court where you can appeal the idiotic decisions of any customs agent. The trick is finding out when they are in session, which is once a week at the Canada/US border but all points of entry have this same court b
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13y ago
The intelligence court can if wants dish out secret punishment, so according to the Washington Post if they find you in contempt you will be held in a communications management unit, which is basically max security where they put terrorists
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13y ago
The only way to stop this is to dismantle the police state. We have no chance of keeping up with their anti-privacy arms race
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13y ago
Die Antwoord was a band nobody wanted or heard of until they uploaded this video to youtube http://youtu.be/cegdR0GiJl4 10 years ago they would've remained in obscurity in South Africa unable to tour because nobody wou
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13y ago
The local indie acts do fine where I live. They all rent a place together and work at coffee shops or, longshoremen some of them because they can take off whenever they want to. I know plenty of bands like Hooded Fang, Gold & Youth, and
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13y ago
I think it's because of what Bruce Schneier notes about crime. Most criminals don't use mathematical probability on their actions or threat modelling. If they did they wouldn't even start in the first place after figuring out
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13y ago
We don't know how DPR handled opsec. There could be a file sitting on the server of every withdrawal pasted into his php app since day 1. He kept a record of a lot of things he claimed he didn't (PMs, transactions). The blockchain
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13y ago
If they have the private keys they can go back in time 2yrs ago and match up every transaction on the blockchain by asking major exchanges like mtgox, bitstamp ect for records. I'm sure there's a few who directly pulled out bitcoi
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13y ago
Satoshi - creator of bitcoin Purposely remained anonymous because he knew they would target him. Bitcoin foundation claims that as creator of Bitcoin, he is liable for every transaction under new FinCen laws being considered. https:/&
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13y ago
Or spend the money to hire somebody who knows what they are doing. Whatsapp has 300 million monthly users and charges $0.99 per year I'm sure they can afford somebody.
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13y ago
I could see Adobe and Microsoft sicking their army of lawyers on this site. I also see it is US domain/hosted which could be yoinked regardless of German law. I would recommend a more bulletproof domain, and hosting in Germany or with
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13y ago
http://www.priorbank.by/e/ or infobank. Min deposit was 25,000 Euros but I was told other banks it's a lot smaller, like 5,000 Euros but this is the best bank. Be aware this is Belarus, and it's a dictatorshi
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13y ago
You could always try an informal payment scheme. Find existing storefronts that have MSB licenses that do currency exchange, ask them to take payments for you. End of the day they deposit to your business account. Now you can have cash acce
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13y ago
Fees all depend on volume of course, so you have to weasel around with sales guys to lock them down. For Inpay I was paying 7% or so fees, and it was free to receive wires in my Okpay account because I am an exchanger with them. To become a
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13y ago
Payment gateways all take Skrill or Paypal. Just find one that doesn't charge a minimum fee per month (there's a few left that don't). You sign contracts directly with Paypal and the gateway accepts the payment, then drop it
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13y ago
It's legal as long as you report any income you make from it personally. There's nothing stopping you from incorporating in the Seychelles, and getting a bank account in Latvia, Belize, or Panama/St Vincent. Just so long as y
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13y ago
Rietumu Bank in Latvia will take any corporation anywhere except blacklisted states. In fact you can apply online you don't even have to visit in person. This guy could've also used Okpay, or dropped in a payment gateway like Glob
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13y ago
True, but other crews pay for intel on competitor delivery driver operations because that's their ATM machine: robbing and taxing weak criminals. Especially the pill customers, it's likely they have other delivery drivers since th
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13y ago
Atlantis market disappeared probably because they didn't make any money and risk didn't equal reward, they claimed agents were messaging them looking to find informants but it's likely they just scammed all their users of a l
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13y ago
He was living with people I think he found on craigslist, and gave them a fake name so I guess thought he could disappear from there at anytime. He would've been nailed going to a drop anyways they would have just waited for him. Why d
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13y ago
I laughed out loud when I read that idiotic part about "this will be my last hit" too. I do like John McAfee's take on chronic weed use though: “Marijuana is the drug of illusion. It creates the the illusion that you’re think
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13y ago
It would also be nice if my company could print it's own money, and I could pick up a gun and jack the company next door and steal all their resources or extort them without any legal repercussions. It would also be great if my employe
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13y ago
Unfortunately it's politcians in 6 countries who try to dismantle the now totalitarian levels of surveillance who end up on this shit list too. Then soon it will be you and me.
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Indeed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent Some slides on a way to do this: http://prezi.com/p5et9yawg2c6/ip-packet-staining/ Their solution was to re-route traffic to a package managemen
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I would imagine it's like all criminal cases where if they find cash lying around during an arrest they seize it.
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13y ago
you left out sitting in a public library and logging into your online cartel that anybody could watch and get the IP you ssh into
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13y ago
FriendlyChemist was a vendor who somehow had a falling out, and decided to try and extort DPR who probably yanked his account. He said he would release all the information he kept on people he shipped drugs to, for the sole purpose of creat
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