No Place To Hide Americans Are Living in an Orwellian State

[General of Darkness]

Film director Brian de Palma has become an expert in voicing people’s frustration with the shortcomings of the US government. RT caught up with the celebrated Hollywood filmmaker and screenwriter to ask him political and apolitical questions.

*Known best for his suspense and crime thriller movies, such as Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible, de Palma has also made a number of films that challenge the political establishment such as Casualties of War.

In his 2007 picture, Redacted, de Palma tells a story of a US soldier in the Iraq War trying to shoot an amateur documentary. Through the eyes of this soldier de Palma exposes what he considers to be the hypocrisy inherent in the US war machine.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nOZX051tZyM#!

[Ares]

Sure there is, you can hide in the Dark net pretty easily. Get whatever you want, guns, drugs, woman or other "services".

Just download Tor, set yourself up a tormail account learn how PGP works and you're good to go.

Granted it's a lot to do but once those are implemented you truly are anonymous and hidden.

[Hillbilly]

Sure there is, you can hide in the Dark net pretty easily. Get whatever you want, guns, drugs, woman or other "services".

Just download Tor, set yourself up a tormail account learn how PGP works and you're good to go.

Granted it's a lot to do but once those are implemented you truly are anonymous and hidden.

I'm sure the NSA monitors the Dark Net too.

[Ares]

I'm sure the NSA monitors the Dark Net too.

I'm sure they do, but good luck trying to trace whose doing what. Tor was designed to hide you. If you are hopping 4-5 different nodes (typical Tor Circuit length) one router only knows next router. Doesn't know the destination, or who sent the packet to begin with.

So I wish em luck lol

Let's say this, if they knew how to track them. Silk Road would of been off-line a while ago. Black Market Reloaded, also gone. Down there, it really is the wild west.

[Twisted Titan]

What is silk road?

[Santa]

What is silk road?

That's where you go to buy drugs and pedo-porn straight from CIA and SPLC sting operatives.

[Ares]

That's where you go to buy drugs and pedo-porn straight from CIA and SPLC sting operatives.

Eh not really. The place works like eBay with user reviews of quality and if their shipment got stopped by customs or not. If CIA or SPLC were taking part there would be word on the user forums about so and so getting busted etc. etc.

TT -

Here's Wiki's take on what the modern day silk road is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_%28marketplace%29

[NOOB]

Another gun grabber that makes his living off of violent gun filled movies.

[madfranks]

Sure there is, you can hide in the Dark net pretty easily. Get whatever you want, guns, drugs, woman or other "services".

Just download Tor, set yourself up a tormail account learn how PGP works and you're good to go.

Granted it's a lot to do but once those are implemented you truly are anonymous and hidden.

Don't know too much about it, but apparently Tor gets most of it's funding from the US Gov't.

Tor gets about 80% of its $2 million annual budget from branches of the U.S. government that support free speech and scientific research (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324677204578185382377144280.html)

[Ares]

Don't know too much about it, but apparently Tor gets most of it's funding from the US Gov't.

Tor gets about 80% of its $2 million annual budget from branches of the U.S. government that support free speech and scientific research (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324677204578185382377144280.html)

Yep, I know that. Tor was developed by the U.S. Navy. But Silk Road and Black Market Reloaded among many many other sites use what's called Tor Hidden Services.

Hidden services

Tor can also provide anonymity to servers in the form of location-hidden services, which are Tor clients or relays running specially configured server software. Rather than revealing the server's IP address (and therefore its network location), hidden services are accessed through Tor-specific .onion pseudo top-level domain (TLD), or "pseudomain," making it one realm of the so-called darknet.[23] The Tor network understands this TLD and routes data anonymously both to and from the hidden service. Due to this lack of reliance on a public address, hidden services may be hosted behind firewalls or network address translators (NAT). A Tor client is necessary in order to access a hidden service.[24]

Hidden services have been deployed on the Tor network beginning in 2004.[25] Other than the database that stores the hidden-service descriptors,[26] Tor is decentralized by design; there is no direct readable list of hidden services. There are a number of independent hidden services that serve this purpose.

Because location-hidden services do not use exit nodes, they are not subject to exit node eavesdropping. There are, however, a number of security issues involving Tor hidden services. For example, services that are reachable through Tor hidden services and the public Internet are susceptible to correlation attacks and thus not perfectly hidden. Other pitfalls include misconfigured services (e.g. identifying information included by default in web server error responses),[24] uptime and downtime statistics, intersection attacks, and user error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29

I will say I am no where near brave enough to run an exit node. But I do use the service to browse and serf anonymously. If any of you guys do decide to download and use Tor. I definitely recommend checking out the Silk Road and Black Market Reloaded, just for the shock and humor value alone.

[Hillbilly]

Don't know too much about it, but apparently Tor gets most of it's funding from the US Gov't.

Tor gets about 80% of its $2 million annual budget from branches of the U.S. government that support free speech and scientific research (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324677204578185382377144280.html)

If the Government is funding it, Then I can guarantee you that they know everything that is going on.

[Ares]

If the Government is funding it, Then I can guarantee you that they know everything that is going on.

Without knowing the protocol that is being used or how it works. You can't make the guarantee.

[Santa]

Eh not really. The place works like eBay with user reviews of quality and if their shipment got stopped by customs or not. If CIA or SPLC were taking part there would be word on the user forums about so and so getting busted etc. etc.


"But the site may not be as secure as it thinks it is. Although Tor masks users' tracks on the website, and the website advises its dealers to disguise shipments, all Bitcoin transactions are recorded in a public log, already well-known to both FBI and CIA.

"Attempting major illicit transactions with Bitcoin, given existing statistical analysis techniques deployed in the field by law enforcement, is pretty damned dumb," commented Jeff Garzik, a member of Bitcoin's development team. "The CIA likely already classifies Bitcoin as open-source intelligence."

Additionally, anyone ordering goods needs to provide their address. "Sooner or later," writes Curtis Cartier in the Seattle Weekly blog. "Folks who buy drugs on the site will be seeing something other than a friendly UPS man at their door." ·

[Santa]

Think about it. Every Bitcoin transaction is recorded and every buyer and sellers address is recorded and kept on file by .Gov.....

Yeah, that sounds perfectly anonymous. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[Ares]

Think about it. Every Bitcoin transaction is recorded and every buyer and sellers address is recorded and kept on file by .Gov.....

Yeah, that sounds perfectly anonymous. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

You do know you can have more than one Bitcoin wallet right? There are ways to "launder" the coins to make them virtually untraceable. There's how to's in the hidden services area of Tor.

The transaction log is for purposes of making sure that the coins aren't forged / fraudulent. It doesn't tie an identity to them the wallet ID. Even the person who ended up stealing a couple hundred thousand dollars worth stole bitcoins from Mt. Gox hasn't been caught or prosecuted. Will he/she? Who knows. They just have it narrowed down to a particular network the party belonged too.