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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: SilentVoice on May 24, 2012, 05:49 pm
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Hey all! I just wanna ease a bit off of my mind, is Tor enough, how do people get caught?? Ta!
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You want your TOR browser located somewhere hard to find. Not just sitting on your desktop.
You need to think about how the BTC are making their way into your SR account (and out of it if you're a vendor).
You need to encrypt your communications with others on SR using PGP.
You need to research vendors before you enter into a transaction.
You need to ensure the address you're sending your goods to is a secure one.
You need to ensure that any people who know you're an SR user are people you can trust. This includes talking about the site online or IRL, and it also includes ensuring no-one's looking over your shoulder when you're browsing the site!
There. You have several things to start looking into and learning about. Good luck, and stay safe!
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Some more things that came to my mind:
You need to either block History Writes or History Reads in both Tor and Non-Tor-mode (Torbutton settings)
You shouldn't keep your GPG keys where people with access to your computer can find them (like the %appdata% folder), i made a post somewhere about how to move them on windows.
There is also a difference between Firefox with Tor and TorBrowser, the latter contains additional security fixes, but average SR users probably don't have to worry about that.
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Frank, Qwert, thank you very much for the very informative and useful info, i appreciate your help!
I will use the info to further safeguard myself.
Thanks again, stay safe,
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