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  • [h=1]Silk Road Reloaded launches, but not on Tor[/h]

    [h=2]Uses a lesser-known anonymity network and accepts Dogecoin.[/h]

    by James Temperton

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    A new version of Silk Road has appeared on the darkweb, but it doesn’t rely on Tor or Bitcoin. Silk Road Reloaded uses the little-known I2P anonymity network and accepts a range of cryptocurrencies including the meme-inspired Dogecoin.

    The site, which has no relation to the two previous versions of Silk Road, is one of a series of copycat marketplaces trying to tap into the lucrative online trade in drugs and other illegal items. Silk Road Reloaded has been in development for a year and can only be accessed using the I2P anonymity software.

    I2P, which has been around since 2003, works in a similar way to the more widely used Tor network and hides what people are looking at online. Unlike conventional websites, all I2P sites ends in .i2p. A “clearnet” version of Silk Road Reloaded can also be accessed from normal browsers.

    Unlike many online marketplaces that only accept Bitcoin or a limited range of cryptocurrencies, Silk Road Reloaded claims to accept pretty much any form of payment. Bitcoin, Anoncoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin are all accepted, with transactions being converted into Bitcoin before being processed.

    Dozens of copycat marketplaces have cropped up on the darknet trying to cash in on Silk Road’s success. The alleged founder of the original Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, AKA Dread Pirate Roberts, is soon to face trial in New York. During the site’s lifespan, more than one million transactions were made, totaling $1.2 billion. It is estimated that Dread Pirate Roberts took $80 million in commissions from these transactions. Both Silk Road and Silk Road 2.0 have been shut down by the FBI.

    The founder of Silk Road Reloaded has been promoting the new site on reddit, but people have criticized the site for trying to cash in on the Silk Road name. One user said that nobody would touch a website named Silk Road “with a ten foot pole.”

    This story originally appeared on Wired UK.

    Snapchat ‘hack’ pics mostly clothed user snaps, odd bits of legacy pr0n – report.

    Probably doesn’t have underage nudes, says analyst.

    Last week’s SnapChat image leak has turned out to be a damp squib rather than the serious privacy breach anticipated by many in the wake of the “Fappening”.

    As previously reported, 200,0000 private photos and videos sent using the SnapChat application and archived using the unofficial (and now defunct) SnapSaved.com site leaked onto the web last week.

    The 12.6 GB archive of the so-called Snappening leak was later made available for all and sundry to download via BitTorrent.
    But the actual leak only consists of a handful of videos, very few of which contain compromising material, according to Andrew Conway, a security researcher at messaging security firm Cloudmark.

    The collection available on BitTorrent does contain leaked SnapChat images and movies. Yet these are mostly innocuous junk, rather than the sort of sensitive material leaked through the recent nude celeb iCloud leaks with which the SnapChat privacy flap was initially compared, as Conway explains in a blog post.

    There is a fair amount of hype about the seriousness of the leak. I examined a sample of these, which I have since deleted.The vast majority of them do not contain nudity. Many are just a text message on a black background, or photos of people pulling faces or showing their day to day activities. Of those that do contain nudity, most do not show a face.

    There were no photos in the sample I examined featuring nudes of obviously under age subjects. Of the photos that did feature nudity and a recognizable face, several were of professional models, and one had a Playboy logo in the corner.

    Conway notes there are plenty of fake links claiming to be to the stolen SnapChat images but which are actually designed to trick users into downloading adware for malicious sites or getting hoodwinked into participating in survey scams.

    SnapChatted material is supposed to self-destruct seconds after viewing. However the distribution of SnapChats well past their destruct-by date is not new and may well reoccur in future despite SnapChat’s best efforts to improve its security. SnapChat maintains it isn’t responsible for the latest leak, which it blames on the “use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our ToU [Terms of Use]”.

    The firm added:

    Mark James, security specialist at security software firm ESET, added: “The very concept of Snapchat leads the user to believe that their photos or videos are deleted very quickly after they have been shared. In 2013 a complaint with the federal trade commission stated this was not the case and this info could in fact be retrieved after the time limit expired.”

    “The user, having installed these third party apps or using these websites, may or may not be aware that these images have been saved and still believe that they are instantly deleted. Sadly as more than half of Snapchat users are believed to be between 13 and 17, the potential for underage indecent material is extremely high,” he added.

    Slap for SnapChat web app in SNAP mishap flap: ‘200,000’ snaps sapped

    This is what occurs if you hand your username and password to a 3rd-party

    Tens of thousands of stolen private SnapChat photos and videos are today being plastered across the internet for perverts to download and ogle, it’s claimed. SnapChat says it isn’t to blame.

    When word spread on 4chan’s notorious /b/ board that someone had allegedly swiped as many as 200,000 SnapChat files from strangers, it was feared the official SnapChat phone app or its servers had been hacked.

    But the startup has denied its systems were ransacked, and instead pointed the finger of blame at a third-party. Indeed, it’s believed the material was obtained from a website called SnapSaved.com, which has been dormant for the past few months and is apparently independent of the official SnapChat.

    SnapSaved, it appears, allowed people to view and save their SnapChats: users entered their usernames and passwords for the official phone app, and the site used the software’s reverse-engineered API to extract stills and short vids on their behalf. This website is not to be confused with the SnapSave app – which has also denied any involvement in today’s pic dump.

    SnapChatted material is supposed to self-destruct after viewing rather than hang around forever on the internet.

    But on Friday, it was alleged on 4chan that the files had been harvested from SnapSaved by a person or persons unknown – and dumped into a 13GB archive that’s now being torrented across the internet by thousands of morons.

    We have been unable to contact SnapSaved’s administrators. It’s assumed today’s leaked material is distributed without people’s permission or knowledge.

    Anonymous poster on 4chan’s /b/ shows off what he or she has downloaded already from the leak dump.

    A website called The Snappening claims to have all or some of the leaked SnapChat pics: we’re told that while most of the alleged swiped material is rather insipid (think blurry America’s Funniest Home Videos sans the funny) a lot of it apparently includes racy footage recorded by sexting underage teens. Which is bad.

    The Snappening is named after The Fappening, 4chan anons’ term for this year’s theft and torrenting of celebs’ nude selfies.

    It’s worth pointing out that the distribution of SnapChats well past their destruct-by-date is nothing new – there’s at least one other site El Reg is aware of that boasts it has thousands of archived stills and vids from SnapChat users; we can’t imagine they’re all legitimately shared.

    SnapChat denies hack rumor

    “We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks,” a spokesperson for the upstart told The Register today.

    “Snapchatters were allegedly victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users’ security. We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed.”

    The 4chan chatter about this week’s leak was first spotted by blogger and online marketing bod Kenny Withers, who published an article about it on his website complete with some SnapChatted pics; his blog was soon noticed by journalists. It was feared the whole thing was a hoax – a viral marketing stunt – but Withers denied claims the pic dump was bogus.

    “I do not believe this is a hoax because I saw the list of pictures that were put up before they got pulled down. My article was not intended to ‘shit’ on /b/. I actually really love those guys,” Withers insisted in a Reddit thread. His comment has since disappeared.

    in reply to: Coming off Benzodiazepines. Help please.

    Took my first dose today which didn’t just relax me it knocked me out. Is that expected?

    @General Lighting 555769 wrote:

    If it’s a legit script from a healthcare professional for an otherwise healthy young patient, they should be monitoring the dosage and for any signs of addiction, and working out a plan to minimise harm. They may have made the decision that the anxiety and sleep deprivation is reducing your quality of life more than addiction might!

    After the the super nintendo and sega mega drive, I peaked on the first generation playstation as far as consoles go.

    in reply to: Coming off Benzodiazepines. Help please.

    What’s the reality of taking these everyday? I was prescribed Ativan yesterday for anxiety because of sleep deprivation but I’m not overwhelmed with anticipation after reading wikipedia…

    in reply to: City Art

    Hadn’t seen any snow in a while we until took the kids on holiday to New Zealand earlier this year.

    in reply to: HELP I’m Afraid of Being Drugged!

    Were you anxious like this before being drugged? This sounds like you may be suffering from a form of PTSD which is anxiety as a resilt of a traumatic event…

    @usseeernamee 554667 wrote:

    I am in therapy. I’ve has loads of it, lol. I guess I should have mention that I WAS drugged at a party, although I don’t know with what, 5 years ago and that’s what started the fear. I guess it has just snowballed from there. By certain restaurants I just meant that if it looks “dirty” or is in a “bad” locations, I won’t eat there.

    Although I thank-you for the suggestion I don’t think taking LSD would help in this particular situation.

    in reply to: Best Legal Drugs for Sex?

    Is this what Cialis is about? An alternative to Viagra without those side effects?

    @Chrispydelic 554584 wrote:

    Viagra can cause a side effect in some men, which opens up arteries in the brain’s lining and causes excess pressure. It can also increase the risk of heart attacks.

    Stimulants increase BP and heart rate increasing pressure on those sensitive arteries and further increasing the risk of heart attack.

    in reply to: Two ID questions! Help, please!

    Not that old. Nothing wrong with helpful comments.

    @Tombo 554580 wrote:

    opps old tread..

    in reply to: Best Legal Drugs for Sex?

    What’s wrong with combining them?

    @Chrispydelic 554544 wrote:

    Stimulants combined with viagra is really not a good idea and in fact could be very bad indeed.

    in reply to: Best Legal Drugs for Sex?

    The best sex I ever had was on ecstasy where we were both so fucked and into each other it felt like we we communicating telepathically. I get horny as on speed though too.

    in reply to: Your favourite bellend

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    Speed, hash and acid I seem to remember. It was 20 years ago now.

    I was up for 5 days once. It was a lot of fun while it lasted but there’s always a price to pay.

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