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New 'Google' For the Dark Web Makes Buying Dope and Guns Easy
First time accepted submitter turkeydance (1266624) writes "The dark web just got a little less dark with the launch of a new search engine that lets you easily find illicit drugs and other contraband online. Grams, which launched last week and is patterned after Google, is accessible only through the Tor anonymizing browser (the address for Grams is: grams7enufi7jmdl.onion) but fills a niche for anyone seeking quick access to sites selling drugs, guns, stolen credit card numbers, counterfeit cash and fake IDs — sites that previously only could be found by users who knew the exact URL for the site."
Remember back in the day when we had other search engines? Yeah, most of them were kinda terrible in comparison to Google. Every time I hear someone refer to their search engine as "Google for..." they've also been terrible. Google became king of search because they were so much better than everyone else.
...it'll let the Feds find them just as easily....
Or does anyone seriously think the NSA can't use this service just as well as Random Internet Idiot?
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Must be the textual form of that secret masonic handshake. Of course, must keep the dope and guns among us brothers!
Ezekiel 23:20
If people think the NSA isn't all over the dark web, they be dummies.
(n/t)
Now the FBI and the Sheriff would be able to set up stings more efficiently. If they ever got around to learning how the tubes connecting the computers work.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
what he said. While countermeasures can mediate the risk, you should assume that anything you send out electronically can be intercepted, decrypted and traced back to you. You can take steps to make this extremely difficult (hopefully more difficult than catching you is worth), you can certainly take steps I personally couldn't overcome without too much effort; but beating the intelligence gathering capabilities of one or more governments is at best an uncertain proposition (IMHO).
i accept your accolade to return yours.
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Take off that mask Alpha Charlie, we welcome your traitorous ass back in the fold.
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...sites that previously only could be found by users who knew the exact URL for the site.
Isn't that kinda how the Internet works. If your don't know the exact URL for a site and no one has posted a link to it on another site your do know, you're not going to reach it. It's only thanks to searching the indexing systems people can find stuff any other way.
Bar hoppers? What's wrong with those of us who like to drink at many watering holes?
Its not hard in real life, and you have a better chance of not getting caught buying it.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Llaw enforcement will be lloving this new devellllopment, they'llll have yet another way to llook at the dark web.
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
Wow... rationalize much?
I bet you are the AC you are responding to.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
Food for thought. Would you really want to live in Venezuela? Hitler made a lot of improvements in Nazi Germany before he became the man we love to hate. Somehow I'm not sure that making the trains run on time by making it so people no longer want to ride them is a good thing. But hey, to each their own.
Venezuela enacted a country wide gun ban, and violent firearm crime dropped by 1/1000.
So it's at 999/1000ths the level it was before?
Sure seems "effective".
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet
Kermet was just a terminal emulator
Kermit allowed for file transfers.
Wikipedia entry for Kermit, as of 23:20, 28 January 2014.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Tor was created by the Naval Research Lab; Tor was created by the United States Government. Should we believe what we are told about it's invincibility. I've read personal opinions online that basically say that even though it was created by the Navy, they were doing it for themselves and made it really unbreakable. With all events being taken into account, during the past months, I am not so sure I really trust anything concerning government any longer. A program like TrueCrypt is more safe feeling to me, now. It is not known who created it other than the True Crypt Foundation. It has successful records against the alphabets who were unable to break True Crypt hard-drives after years of trying. This fact alone leads one to believe that True Crypt is not government affiliated in any way.
National Security Letters work if the person receiving them is subject to US law.
The "bully stick of diplomacy" may work of the person is subject to the law of a country that wants to stay on friendly terms with the USA.
If this site is hosted in a country like North Korea (which we can probably rule out to to their self-imposed Internet near-exile), Iran, or one of a small number of other countries openly hostile with the US Government, it's highly unlikely that the US Government will be able to use "the force of law" to compromise the site itself. Far more likely is that they will have to sneak in covertly to compromise either it or the pipe leading to it, or they will find a way of "taking over" the URL without taking over the site itself.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
I'm sure there's a secret message hidden in your gaseous emmissions, but due to the inherent hazards of internet-stink-bombs my router refuses to pass odor packets into my network.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
... there wasn't any search engine for TOR?
How were the Chinese dissidents supposed to find the tor-based hidden services on how to combat the Chinese government? After all, that's why the US Government invented TOR, right? Right???
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Buying guns is perfectly legal. gunbroker.com, budsgunshop.com, walmart.com. Well, to be fair the last one tells you they are instore only, but the others will gladly and legally ship straight to your FFL.
You are the person that Bloomberg has spent 50 million to protect the children of the US against this year. There is a reason that parents are just getting fed up with the gun nuts. Look at Europe. Only the military and police have guns, and crime is 1/10 of what it is here. Venezuela enacted a country wide gun ban, and violent firearm crime dropped by 1/1000. People like you are why the SAFE act and other lesligation to protect children has been enacted.
Each of those European States are only 1/10 the population of all 50 of the American States. In recent times, Ireland wasn't too happy about England's police and their guns for more than a century; neither was Europe's ten million and Russia's 20 million defenseless deaths a few decades ago. Canada & Australia populations are about half that of California. Unlike the U.S., the island states of Japan and Great Britain have had centuries of unilateral culturalism--only a century or so for Canada's and Australia's 20 million white people.
Mom Protects Her Children from Armed Home Invasion
Oldster Gunman Stops Armed Cafe Robbery.
The gun deaths in the States, most were suicides, self defense and some stupid accidents. Stop blaming others for not taking care of your children.
True forward anonymity is a useful thing and it served the myriad dissidents escaping opression which is good. Being involved in it also meant facilitating the use of others involved in slavery, abuse of minors, and so on. On balance I decided that I could not justify facilitating the downside, no matter how important the upside was. There has to be a better way than dancing with the devil. If you dance with the devil, you will pay his fee.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Well some of the ones listed in the link are. Or near enough to make no never mind. Pity thought because I'd be aallll over that Skorpion...
OK, so the US government has been recently shown conclusively to lie and spy on its own citizens, not to mention sending them to die on useless faraway wars, overtaxing them and maintaining a worrisome inequality regime for the benefit of only a few rich citizen. Clearly the US gov seems to be evil. Where are the righteous citizens taking up arms and bringing down that evil government?
Which well-armed milicia do you belong to?
even hack.box.sk before that
Technophile
In the United States you have a right, and a duty to train and learn how to use firearms effectively.
Well, if D&N taught me anything it's that throwing all your experience into one specialzation is folly. Civilian firearms are literally kids play. I looked at the export controll list, then became a crypographer.
Dam... the opposite of breathing and being alive is not breathing and being dead :(
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Venezuela has a murder rate of 45.1 per 100,000 post gun-ban. Are you really trying to suggest that their murder rate pre gun-ban was 45,100 per 100,000?
It should also be noted that the current 45.1 per 100K murder rate is ten times the US murder rate (4.5 per 100K)....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
The same one all the rest of the US citizens belong to. Read the Militia Act sometime.
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Yeah, and now that it is newsworthy, a whole bunch of cops and agencies are going to expend as many tax dollars as they can toward doing the Silk Road bit to this Grams. Of course, someone else will start one somewhere else and more tax dollars will disappear into the aether. Done often enough, this could cut funding to Repubmocrat programs which buy them votes, while polishing the donut for the enforcement agencies. Repubmocrats, not wanting to detract from ,doing it for the children, will attempt to enact more internet control to protect their usual modus craperandi. Look for the CIA to be knee deep in Grams a la Sandinista, and the whole mess swirls round and round till it gets stuck in the plumbing and the log will have to be plunged manually.
That was the H.S.Thompson version.
Business as usual on the internet and D.C.
That was the NYT version.
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Who said anything about Italy being in Germany? Did you get confused when I didn't spell it out for you?
But if you really do think I was talking about Hitler with the trains, you can check this out and suck on it.
And, when I just tried it, it was apparently down.
It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage. - Colonel Henry Walton Jones, Jr., Ph.D.
pretty sure these are not the guns they are talking about. felons buying them black market ones that are unregistered and full autos.
if they did that there entitlement checks wont show up anymore. how do you think oboma got to stay in office welfare and entitlement..
history proves no matter how many time they overthrow whatever form of government we have sawing we will do better this time around it always brakes down into what we have now its a endless cycle. not saying are current government isn't reaching its end of life the only thing keeping them in power right now is welfare and entitlement when that come crashing down get ready for a mess. and the cycle will repeat they will be decent and small for a little wile before going right back to there old ways.
gin+C+C+ [c++]
To be fair, it was subconsciously narrated with Gandalf's voice.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Is it newsworthy enough that I should be interested?
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.