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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: ninjaman on March 14, 2012, 09:24 pm

Title: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: ninjaman on March 14, 2012, 09:24 pm
Another thread had me thinking about this. Do you tell any of your friends, girlfriend or family that you use this site?

Personally, I've told no one except my significant other. The only reason I have is because she checks the mail around 50% of the time. It would be hard to explain the mystery packages from all around the country coming in.

I have friends who use drugs. Friends who I trust, but for some reason, I feel that it is better to keep this one close to the chest.

What do you think?
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Mistersketch on March 14, 2012, 09:32 pm
im right there with you friend

there is no reason for anyone to know about this type of thing, In all honesty the way I see it is If I cant keep a secret, I doubt the person I just told will be able to as well, so if things go accordingly that 1 person you told could spread to 100 over time,

a small problem could come back to bite you in the ass later on so I figure that If my friends talk about it Ill say something but as of right now I am happy enough to have found this site and consider it like a present for being on the computer for a majority of my time

Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: chiefrogan on March 14, 2012, 09:39 pm
I have friends who use drugs. Friends who I trust, but for some reason, I feel that it is better to keep this one close to the chest.

What do you think?

Agreed. I even have had a friend tell me about this place with some detail but mostly wrong and I just stood there and nodded "wow, cool" (you have no idea man) haha

It's a bit counter-intuitive because I definitely feel like shouting from the tops of mountains to all the drones below... SILK ROAD!! FREEDOM!!

But, I'm a bit on the cautious side cause I think if I'm getting busted it's gonna be from something in the physical and not cyber space. Who knows though right
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Oldtoker on March 14, 2012, 09:49 pm
I completely agree.  Absolutely no one knows I buy from the Road.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: ninjaman on March 14, 2012, 09:50 pm
It's a bit counter-intuitive because I definitely feel like shouting from the tops of mountains to all the drones below... SILK ROAD!! FREEDOM!!

Oh man, EXACTLY!

I have an acquaintance in particular who very much shares my libertarian views and is a 'tech guy'. I would love to share it with him, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

We all really have to make a distinct effort to separate our true identities from our SR identity. No exceptions. There are a lot of people who would like to take this beautiful creation and shove it up our collective ass.

Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Trinitron421 on March 14, 2012, 09:53 pm
Only my brother, because you would not believe how close we are, and we live together. We share everything else, so why not SR?
He isn't tech savvy, and not knowledgeable enough about security to keep himself safe, so that is my job.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Helliz4heroes on March 14, 2012, 10:06 pm
Yes, one friend very close who I have known since I was about 6 and he introduced me to SR. Other than that no one and it's best kept that way I think. The more people who know the more chances you have to get fucked over in some way, I am ultra paranoid about security when using SR and that can only be a good thing.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: shoophaha on March 14, 2012, 11:03 pm
Wow, are people so secretive? I've told all my friends about it. But then I live on a college campus and my friends are liberal and not judgey and often do drugs with me so it's a different circumstance...
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: brutusk on March 14, 2012, 11:05 pm
Only my sig. other who wouldn't be able to find the place without my help.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: ninjaman on March 14, 2012, 11:13 pm
Wow, are people so secretive? I've told all my friends about it. But then I live on a college campus and my friends are liberal and not judgey and often do drugs with me so it's a different circumstance...


Wait about 10 more years when you have a career, mortgage, et cetera. More to lose. If I was 18, 19, 20... then I think I would probably be much more open about it like you.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: jackstraw on March 14, 2012, 11:29 pm
First RULE of Fight Club applies to SR imo
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: greatgreatgrandpa on March 14, 2012, 11:49 pm
It's a bit counter-intuitive because I definitely feel like shouting from the tops of mountains to all the drones below... SILK ROAD!! FREEDOM!!

Oh man, EXACTLY!

I have an acquaintance in particular who very much shares my libertarian views and is a 'tech guy'. I would love to share it with him, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

We all really have to make a distinct effort to separate our true identities from our SR identity. No exceptions. There are a lot of people who would like to take this beautiful creation and shove it up our collective ass.

it took me 6 months to learn how to do this properly, i can imagine how long it would take other people, people need to creep in slowly, be educated early, and learn often.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: matada1125 on March 15, 2012, 12:04 am
Both of my roommates know I'm on it, They've asked me to buy from them. I found about SR from my now ex.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: OldGuard on March 15, 2012, 12:31 am
I completely agree.  Absolutely no one knows I buy from the Road.

+1
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: koolkev on March 15, 2012, 12:37 am
i told lots of people that are close to me and also into smoking weed / doing other shit, but only the tech-savy ones that understand what this is about and how to keep it (almost). the few non techy people i told about were all like "oh yeah this is awesome" but didn't put in any effort in learning the whole process; and that's good imho :)
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Rassu322 on March 15, 2012, 01:52 am
A mums friend of mine who I sometimes buy and send packages to from here obviously but never seen it herself

My mum... she would have noticed anyway all the packages of weed turning up haha

and my best friend
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: wretched on March 15, 2012, 02:04 am
I haven't told anyone I know IRL directly about it, but I have put a couple of them in touch with this cat named wretched who I met online. he seems like a cool dude. I give "his email" to them, and then wretched tells em a little about the darknet. now that I think about it, posting it here might clue them in. we'll see if any of em figure it out
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: etal on March 15, 2012, 02:24 am
I mostly use SR to move harder-to-find psychoactives around my group of friends. Three of them know where I get them from, but they know that it's important to keep it a secret. Others just know that I can obtain these sorts of things and are happy not asking questions. I'm also younger and have fewer responsibilities than most people on SR it seems, so I don't need to be as strict in my secrecy. Regardless, I've taken care in seeing that there are no trails leading back to me.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: faceface on March 15, 2012, 03:54 am
First RULE of Fight Club applies to SR imo

I pretty much feel the same way. The only person that I've told to about SR is my significant other, as we both differ on choosing either indica or sativa dominant weed strains. For the few close friends that I sell weed to here and there, they know that I pick up from a mail order from California, or I had to drive 'a few states away' to get some dank. I've used mail orders that were not SR affiliated in the past, and whenever anyone asked how can I do that/where did you find that? I just told them to go and do research on google, same thing goes for SR.

Someone actually mentioned silk road IRL when I was at a party the other night, and started chiming on about it but said he never actually figured out how to get on it. First time anyone has ever mentioned it IRL.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: sons of vipers on March 15, 2012, 06:56 am
only 2 people... two of my closest friends, who also use SR  ;D
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: ExtraSheets on March 15, 2012, 08:07 am
Just a homeless friend of mine that has no idea how to use the internet.

I'm not joking.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: dankology on March 15, 2012, 08:45 am
My girl knows, and a couple of close friends which I kind of regret.  I started having other friends who i'd rather not tell anything about it bothering me to show them how to access it, which I never did.  I had such an exclusive thing to myself :(  Nobody knows I'm a vendor however.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: genial on March 15, 2012, 10:05 am
I think I told my cat once while I was tripping hard. I'm certain she won't meow.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: J4M136 on March 15, 2012, 10:20 am
Only my wife knows.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: tororo on March 15, 2012, 10:27 am
In my opinion, trying to pull some fight club shit is completely redundant as there's a wikipedia article (with working links, I always go there if I lose the link lol) and if you google "buy drugs online" the first result is a detailed article about how to get on here. Personally I've told a few of my friends and offered them to buy stuff for them just because I can and I try to be a nice guy. They're not as into drugs as me anyway so I've only ordered for them once or twice.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: indignado on March 16, 2012, 03:38 pm
The two guys I live with both know about SR, one of them even uses SR along with a few of his friends. The other guy isn't a drug taker but has a pretty liberal mindset, I'd trust  both of them not to go blabbing about it to anybody. Most of my friends know as well. However as previously mentioned this could just be due to the age gap - maybe if we had a wife, kids, mortgage, career etc we might be a bit more inconspicuous. I definitely wouldn't tell anyone outside my close circle of friends though. The only thing I'm worried about is that a few of these guys insist on using SR with essentially no tech security - they do things like browse Tor with Firefox extensions on their main OS with no antivirus, and don't bother with encryption. They think that simply using a Tor extension makes them technologically invincible. If any of them were ever caught it would probably compromise the rest of us as well. Oh well, fuck it, LE probably have better things to do than chase down a couple students buying weed over the internet, so I'm just gonna hope for the best.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: wowzers on March 16, 2012, 04:59 pm
Only my partner, she's on a hiatus from drugs but is pretty tolerant of my hobbies.  :D

Haven't told many friends other than those who are already on here, I'd end up becoming the go-to guy for my extended social group's drug needs.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: The Romantic Era on March 16, 2012, 05:14 pm
Wow, are people so secretive? I've told all my friends about it. But then I live on a college campus and my friends are liberal and not judgey and often do drugs with me so it's a different circumstance...

im right there with you, man. unfortunately, i was kicked out or 'asked to leave' for a semester (completely unrelated to SR) and to come back if i wanted to :P but, seriously, i do not tell all my friends and i ask myself before telling someone, 'can i really trust this guy/gal?', because i do not want this coming back to me in some sort of awful chain  :-\ i would recommend telling only those you live with/have to or have complete trust in, or better yet, not telling anyone at all...

note: man, i miss college  :'(
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Reseller on March 16, 2012, 07:48 pm
Most of my friends know I push $3k per month on SR. Hiding the wealth is too hard at my age.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Fah-Q on March 16, 2012, 07:56 pm
Silk Road ? What's Silk Road ??
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: ianfleming on March 16, 2012, 08:05 pm
A few friends do, I'm helping someone make their first order soon.
I mentioned it to a few people, but for the most part, "my personal sources are just that, my PERSONAL sources".
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: j0blo on March 17, 2012, 02:09 am
No, just like I don't give my friends phone numbers of my dealers irl.  Most of my friends are idiots and and I don't want to be responsible for them.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Sour D on March 17, 2012, 07:06 am
     I would tell absolutely nobody, NOT EVEN FAMILY. Even if you tell a close family member, they could be someone who is very reactive, and tell someone else because of the jolt of concern they have for your drug "problem". And if the secret gets around to a non-blood relative (in-law), you don't want them having that info if a divorce or falling-out were to happen, cause a grudge with the family.

   And another thing, some people in this thread mention their SIGNIFICANT other. This is a really big risk in my opinion. Say you have a fight with her or get caught cheating, her rage could provoke her to rat you out for revenge. Or if you break up with her, she could use this as leverage / black mail. I say "her" because women are more likely to act impulsively by having you arrested, even if later she was not "thinking right" at that time.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: 1toast143freak on March 17, 2012, 07:26 am
The only people who need to know are yourself and perhaps the seller.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Spedly on March 17, 2012, 04:29 pm
I've told a friend (who actively uses SR) and my wife. My teenage son knows that I'm ordering cannabis over the Internet but doesn't know the specifics.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: goofus on March 17, 2012, 04:42 pm
yeppers. The person who told me about it and another buddy. They both share the product with me, so its a tight triumvirate taking time to test Tetravort
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: jesse on March 17, 2012, 04:44 pm
no one...but my son he set it up for me...I could not even play a videogame  ;)
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Kandi on March 17, 2012, 11:28 pm
I really wanted to tell everyone when I first found it but only because I was excited about finding something most people in my life would consider a myth or something.
I keep it to myself though. People in my life aren't really into stuff like this.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: toker420 on March 17, 2012, 11:32 pm
My teenage son knows that I'm ordering cannabis over the Internet but doesn't know the specifics.

Probably the best thing you could of done for your security right there.  Just imagine how cool he thinks he is at school 'guys guess what, my dad orders weed off the internet'  Surely you could of hid it a bit better, no?
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Spedly on March 18, 2012, 05:14 am
Probably the best thing you could of done for your security right there.  Just imagine how cool he thinks he is at school 'guys guess what, my dad orders weed off the internet'  Surely you could of hid it a bit better, no?

As much as I appreciate you judging me and my family, I encourage you to stick to talking about subjects that you have experience with. My family's dynamics is not one of them.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: coptcha on March 18, 2012, 06:58 pm
My answer: Only one buddy who I share my purchases with.

My rule of thumb: Always clue in anyone you live with or is housesitting for you or whatever. If they may touch or live with your mail, you kind of owe them the knowledge so they can judge for themselves if they are taking a risk. They really are not taking a risk, but that's just not your call to make.

My curiosity: I would REALLY love to see some sort of demographic poll (it's beyond my abilities) on SR users. On one hand, one would think that younger people are more hip to the technology and whatnot, but they are also the ones who are least likely to need it (seriously, how hard is it to find a hookup when you are 19?). Older people are way way way more scared to ask around and are often more leery of any of the various pills/powders that could be contaminated, and SR provides a solution to both those problems. So is SR a bunch of young tech-savvy people, or a bunch of older users who come here for the safety? Or both?

Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: risky2 on March 18, 2012, 09:50 pm
I haven't let anyone know yet, I'm thinking about it, but saying I get drugs off the internet can come off, a little , dare I say it, "nerdy", heh. Cool, but nerdy. Friends I share with just think I have a hookup, friend of a friend of a friend kinda thing. Thing is if I tell them about it, and they start ordering, now I'm not only worried about my stuff coming thru, I would start to worry about their stuff coming thru too. And If they get scammed and all that shit. So I'm leaning towards not tellling them at the moment.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: greencrayon on March 18, 2012, 10:47 pm
The first thing I did when I discovered silk road was email my old college roommate and tell him, you gotta check this out! I'm sure he'll understand that I ordered some stuff when I invite him to do some hallucinogens. If I was a vendor maybe I would be more secretive. But plenty of people knew / have known that I have used illicit substances, so I don't think them knowing that I use silk road will add much risk. But I still probably won't broadcast it.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: oddmanoutP on March 20, 2012, 12:30 am
Just a homeless friend of mine that has no idea how to use the internet.

In case this man's life wasn't hell enough :o
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: OuterLimits on March 20, 2012, 07:53 pm
So far there has been no compelling reason for me to share SR with anyone in person yet, the people I trust enough are FAR from tech savvy so whats the point?
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: HerpMcDerp on March 20, 2012, 10:14 pm
Just my hairdresser. Not even joking.

I think it's only fair considering he always smokes me out before cutting my hair. He's a fucken legend.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: gnumagicboy on May 21, 2012, 08:14 am
No one knows so far and I aims to keep it that way.  Trust no one.  That's how good things get screwed up, imo.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Reece on May 21, 2012, 08:16 am
Nope.
Trust nobody.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: NorE on May 21, 2012, 12:05 pm
No haven't told anyone. Considering telling it to a friend of mine who used to sell E's and is thinking about going back to that profession, and i really don't want to order the amounts he needs for him. He is btw on of few persons i would trust with my life. We have known each other since kindergarten been through thick and thin together so i will probably tell him. We'll see
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: trollsquad on May 21, 2012, 04:17 pm
 Yeah my bud and i went half on a half sheet of tonys acid but we all know how that went...

Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: anatta on May 22, 2012, 02:52 pm
I've told the people I share the mailbox with because I felt it wouldn't be too smart to have one of them pick up the mail one day and just drive around town with packages i might have gotten.  I told them only what they needed to know to keep them safe.  Besides that, only two IRL friends that have previously known about the Road.  I just got to tell them I did it successfully.  It was easy for me really because I was using TOR and Truecrypt long before I got here.  Figured out bitcoins in a couple of days, and so the journey began.  But I would never tell anyone if it wasn't in person. 
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: klaaat21 on May 22, 2012, 05:18 pm
I haven't even told myself that I use silkroad. 

Tell
no
one

Stealth:  it's the thing that has kept you out of jail. 
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: Mrambulancedriver on May 22, 2012, 05:42 pm
When i first found this place i got really excited. I told just a few close friends in my circle what this place was and that i discovered it.  Although one friend i definitely did not tell, mentioned something about me getting drugs online, which i told him yeah i found some place, but it was "weird, and hard to get shit off of, and i actually got scammed"

The only people that now know i've been placing orders is my girlfriend, and my roommate, and my roommate doesnt know any kind of details, just tht i show up back at the house once every two weeks with a bag of MDMA i somehow got online. hes a really good friend tho anyways.

I've told some friends that i sell molly too, if they sort of ask, that i get it off a guy who gets it from a guy who gets in imported from Holland or Germany.
My other friends that i originally mentioned this place to I'm sure can assume that im getting my shit from here, but after that one guy mentioned something I don't tell them fucking SHIT. Bastards can't keep their mouth shut about my business.



To anyone wondering about telling people, SR should be kept on a 'need to know' kinda thing. There's usually absolutely no reason why your friends need to know your ordering drugs over the internet. No good can come from that.

Just tell them you met a dealer who only wants to deal with certain people in secrecy, and that his guy gets in super dank shit.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: the renegade on May 22, 2012, 06:34 pm
My live in girlfriend is privy to SR and a couple close connections I deal with f2f on a regular basis and have trusted for years.  They have waaay more dirt that could get me hemmed up than my business on the Road....

I do not share the amazing marketplace that I discovered on my own internet tweak session ;) , all others can do the same!
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: hyruleantoker on May 22, 2012, 08:30 pm
The guy who I first discovered TOR+SR through knows I've found it online, although he doesn't know my alias. I've also told a friend of mine who's a proven pot head, and he's expressed interest in harder shit.

I have recently been trying to fight my urge to be overly social about sensitive topics, like drugs, as I could easily get myself in trouble if I'm not careful
I'm a really social person, but I am going to be a lot more careful about who I talk to about what.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: ianfleming on August 22, 2012, 06:30 pm
Yep, fiance, mother, uncle and his wife, uncle and close friends know and sometimes join me in sampling my purchases. (I'm a social drug user (I never dose by myself))
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: psykhe on August 22, 2012, 07:31 pm
I have no friends to tell. :(


My significant other knows and thinks it's cool. He has little to no interest in participating, though.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: TheAbsurd on August 22, 2012, 07:44 pm
I used to have a friend who knew. He opened his mouth and now he is dry as fuck.

No LSD for him or anybody else. I only buy shit for me now. I feel greedy but they should shut their fucking mouth. Just because I said I can hook them up with a couple hits of something it doesn't mean their friends have the same entitlement.

If I was doing actual business I wouldn't have told anyone. Just thought I'd be able to trust my friend, but no. Don't trust your friends.
Title: Re: Does anyone in your life know you use Silk Road?
Post by: kryptoz on August 22, 2012, 08:00 pm
Few people know, but they don't go on or ask about it. They just thought it was really cool :)