[Serious OPSEC] Coming to my senses and hoping to clean out the computer that I USED to surf DNM on using Windows 7.

Was conflicted as to whether to put this to noobs or not, but I was total this was not the most noobish questions, as many are guilty of it, and many of them are no longer noobs, so I put it here, but it can be moved if the mods thing it should.

So I used to follow a broke dick guide I got from the early SR2 days that said basically a trusted VPN and the TBB over the Windows OS was safe play with DNM.

Now while it comes to light more and more now-a-days that the first steps LE takes to come after you is to identify you as a Tor user (right from a long time FBI agents lips), which makes a "trusted" (and they do exist), VPN, which provides protection from you ISP (aka LE's filing cabinets) a logical way to go about your OPSEC (I know I will get pulled apart for this comment, but read on a little.)

However, through much research, learning more about the Windows OS, having a good friend that works for the FBI, and of course the knowledge of these rooms, I have learned that there is no way I can make the argument that the VPN > Windows 7 > TBB > Illegal activity, is a better way to go then someone just running a verified, latest updated, and properly configured Tails OS, even if my ISP can see I am using Tor. Windows (as the many techs, including the author of the DNM Noobs section points out) has too many back doors and is just a joke of a way to surf the Markets. So I get that now.

My current system is one that I, as well as many, have told me is impressive, but I am not going to get into that now, as it's off topic.

My reason for this post, is to ask you gurus if there is a way to rid my the computer I used to run Windows on to surf the Markets of any, most of, or all traces of it.

It's still a newer machine, it runs great, and I would like to use it for totally legit things. I just want to remove all, or most of the taint that I have put on it over about a 6 month span of ignorance.

I assume that just deleting TBB and going about my life is not ideal. Are there ways to find those little hidden patches of things I do not want found by those backdoors? Can my integrity on that machine be restored or is there always going to be taint there?

*Also, it should be noted that LE never got wise to me. I am not on crazy lists, addresses are not flagged, men not hiding in bushes, house not being watched. I have a good source of intel on this, so everything is about what happens from this point on, and if I can continue to safely use the machine in a legit way that would be excellent.

One final note, is that I do have a backup system image for that machine, right before my DNM activity. But it would require me to lose a serious amount of work I have put into it since then, but it is one option if I wanted to be sure, but I really would rather see if there are some out there much smarter than myself that might be able to help me first.

Remember, this is going to be a totally legit machine. Not even a Matthew McConaughey movie will be watched on it from this point on.

Anyone?


Comments


[2 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

Don't clean it.

Leave TOR installed in case you want to browse reddit. If youre a vendor and its full of product listing photos its another matter. Easiest to buy a new hard drive and keep that one hidden somewhere for emergencies.

The police arent going to arrest you for using tor browser.


[2 Points] None:

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[2 Points] DancingWindAway:

Here is what you do:

  1. Download Rufus to create a bootable usb-stick on which you put a nuke program. DBAN should suffice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darik%27s_Boot_and_Nuke). That should take care of any root kits your machine might have caught and makes data recovery impossible.

  2. Decide which CryptoOS you want to use: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Comparison_with_Others . If you want to go for Tails just make a Tails-USB-Stick to use for dnm activity. If you choose whonix you can use a VM for it, in both cases you can keep windows as a main system. I highly recommand to never surf the darknet from anything but Tails, Whonix or LPS MilitaryOS.


[1 Points] None:

You are what we in the hacking community like to call "a tinfoil hatter" government doesn't get updates from ISPs every time someone connects to Tor, they need a subpoena for that. Local LE certainly doesn't have a list of every single Tor user in their city.

As far as VPN vs Tor, anyone can set up a Tor relay, anyone can set up a VPN and/or paid VPN. Easy way for government to track hackers imo, and double case building etc. Seriously though if you are just a buyer, you are worrying way too much, no one is interested in spending resources trying to fuck you over.


[1 Points] None:

TLDR, what a fucking wall of text.

Also you're a small fish nobody gives a fuck about your purchases or browsing or whatever. In the future get tails just to be safe.


[1 Points] dawgiee:

So you talked to your FBI friend about using Dark Net Markets? Nobody has 'good friends at the FBI' my man. And you even have access to some supposed 'intel' that assures that you're not on 'Crazy lists' and 'LE is not wise to you.'

I'm surprised noone has said this yet, but

You're full of shit.


[0 Points] None:

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