what is your guy's thoughts on using privnote

what is your guy's thoughts on using privnote to receive addresses? to me it doesn't seem so smart but i don't know really.


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[7 Points] GrandWizardsLair:

The Grand Wizard encourages buyers to use PGP but does not require it. If you feel safe handing your security over to a third party that is on you. The Grand Wizard takes care of the Grand Wizard's OpSec and trusts his customers to take care of their own.

As a practical matter Privnote and its ilk are almost certainly sufficient for personal use buyers. No, it is not a good idea to trust strangers with your privacy: yes, there is a chance these services are run by or open to one government agency or another. But those agencies have pretty full dance cards right now and probably won't send out a SWAT team because Joe Blow from Kokomo ordered some mushrooms and a half-dozen Vicodins.

That being said, PGP is not rocket science. Encrypting your own messages is much safer and it's not a great effort. So for the Grand Wizard Privnote is like jarred spaghetti sauce -- it will suffice in a pinch but a minute or two of work will give you a much superior experience.


[4 Points] holecloud:

My thought is that if you don't have 15 minutes to learn proper PGP, then you shouldn't be doing it. Good vendors stopped even accepting privnote a year ago, I used it once or twice, but never again. PGP IS SUPER EASY

EDIT: Sorry you said receive, but the vendors I used over a year ago rejected my privnote, something about not being able to access it correctly...........


[6 Points] CocaineNose:

I've seen vendors use it to send tracking numbers. If you're sending an address to a vendor don't be lazy. Gpg4win takes seconds.


[2 Points] thesilksheet:

No substitution for proper opsec.


[1 Points] Yourconscious69:

I quit using it for that purpose a looong time ago when it became questionable whether the messages could be saved on their servers. I use temp.pm for text messages now to my good friends


[1 Points] procowtipper:

I used SMS4TOR once and it turned out alright. Basically, you load a message and get a link for it. When the link is used once it allegedly deletes it forever.


[1 Points] WhereIsMyLSD:

I don't really know much about privnote, other than the fact that most vendors won't accept/use it at all. And that says enough to me that privnote is a bad idea


[1 Points] wrapyourwilly:

I use privnote for communication with IRL dealers sometimes. They perfer it to text messaging. It comes in handy if your trying to get some bud after work or something but cant call about it and dont want to text obvious shit.