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Sugabearcrisp said:
You can darkweb from your phone

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Texas Honey Badger said:

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Sugabearcrisp said:
You can darkweb from your phone

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Sugabearcrisp said:
You can darkweb from your phone

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That's tough to do these days.

Typically tor is required to access these sites, which conceals the traffic initiation point.

All vendors and customers are required to send PGP encrypted messages to each other (which again conceals the message contents for anyone watching the communications).

Most of the time monetary exchange is done through monero, which has an encrypted block chain. This means that your wallet can only see that money is coming or going, but not really who its going to or for what reason, the seller has similar limits on what can be seen, and any 3rd parties trying to figure out where money is coming and going from can't see shit.

Reputable dark web exchanges also have an escrow account where money is held and not released to the seller until the buyer has a chance to receive the product and test/verify its quality, and buyers can rate sellers and even dispute transactions if anything goes wrong, which incentivizes product accuracy and quality, and allows the buyer to shop around and verify that the sellers are trustworthy.

If you're really paranoid like I am, you can install an operating system that runs from a usb thumb drive, and is fully encrypted until you boot it and log in with your password. You can set it up so that it has some persistent storage, or you can run it so that the OS boots fresh every time, and nothing (cookies, malware, etc.) is saved. The one I use is called Tails OS, and it comes pre-installed with tor, kleopatra (for PGP message encryption), and a pretty useful password manager. I'd suggest enabling persistent storage and installing your monero wallet there, and then you can use a standard cryptocurrency exchange to buy some monero.

And then if your order gets caught in the mail, you can deny that you know anything about it, because there are no records of visiting weird sites, no decryptable copies of communications, and no decryptable evidence of money transferred between parties. Most of the time for smaller amounts like that, they won't even bother to question you if they catch it in the mail system, they'll just remove the illegal stuff, pop a notification of content confiscation in the envelope, and send it to you.

I've never had a problem, all of the products arrived and reagent tested correctly, and they usually arrive earlier than stated.

Its a steep learning curve, but most anyone can do it

Oh yea and uh...CA: eggnog

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Texas Honey Badger said:
Man it was so much easier back in the day

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kreg said:
lol mentioning star gazing, I had wanted to mention any of yall ever get so high that you look up and genuinely freak out a little bit thinking about how little we know about gravity and "dark energy"?

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I do this sober. I occasionally realize that all of the stars in the sky can and in some cases are their own solar system, and that the farthest star we can see with the unaided eye is only 4000 light years away, yet our galaxy is 100k-120k light years in diameter, the nearest galaxy is roughly 20x that distance from us, and there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe.

And when I say realize, I mean beyond just knowing the numbers, its more like my brain tries to truly comprehend the scale of the universe for a few minutes, breaks, and then reboots. The scale of the universe is absolutely bonkers.

Helps keep a humble perspective on life, though.