Recent comments in /f/DarknetNews

Rambler wrote (edited )

I've not really followed Dark Web news / drama / happenings outside of what maintainers of code like Tor, I2P, etc actually publish and of course they never comment on things like this. Just bug fixes, improvements, plans, and discussion about the network itself and not the content on it.

So what's the consensus on this guy? A Fed? Lucky? Too smart to get caught so he's back to do it 'right'? I had never heard of AlphaBay until recently when I saw on /r/i2p that the site was supposed to be on the I2P network this time instead of Tor. Is that true?

And yeah, Thai prison isn't anyplace a foreigner would want to wind up... South East Asia isn't really a place anyone should go to fuck around with drugs or anything trafficking related. Your stay at the "Bangkok Hilton" isn't going to be very comfortable.

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awdrifter wrote

Doesn't sound like they actually took much then. If DoubleVPN accepted anonymous payment methods, the personal information they have is probably fake. The logs are a bit concerning, but from the wording it doesn't sound like IP were logged, if it's only usage statistics, there's not really anything EuroPol can do with it, except for maybe track the people who happens to be connected at the time of the server seizure.

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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote

I would recommend Twiiit to randomly redirect to a Nitter instance that's not dead/rate-limited, but it looks like it can select instances which are dead, redirect somewhere else, or are Clownflared. It's possible I'll have to message the owner about this, so for now, check the instance list to find an instance that's not slow or Clownflared. It might still eventually get rate-limited, though.

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