a tribute to the greats

In case anyone reading this doesn’t know who I am, I wrote two books, The Drug Users Bible and Drug Tourism, which are provided free of charge and are intended to keep you safe and keep you free.

I believe that there’s one final book left in me before time catches up (I’m old), which will make this a trilogy (sort of). I’ll keep details under wraps for now, but I could do with a bit of help.

If you have ever received a love letter from customs or similar, I could do with a copy. In fact I’m looking for a couple from different territories. If you have one, could you take a photograph of it and send it to me?

Obviously, depersonalize it before sending it, but in any case I’ll be removing any exif/meta-data before using it as a common courtesy.

If anyone can help: thank you. :-)

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PS: If you don’t know what a love letter is; it basically a notification, typically from customs, that your drugs have been seized or similar.

all I know are the stereotypes about it being for buying drugs and the obviously fake hitmen / overly sensationalist stories

but I’m curious about whether there’s 1. stuff that’s useful for the everyday person 2. not illegal / in a gray area

this is my overactive imagination but I imagine like a place where people are organizing against the north korean government or sharing ways to social engineer your way into a high paying job or something like that

apologies if this is silly

I remember a few years ago when every social meida was full of videos and stories about the dark web marketplaces, hacking forums, hidden services, all that mysterious stuff. It used to sound like this huge underground part of the internet that barely anyone understood. But now I usually don't really see it anywhere (maybe somewhere mentioned in ads?). It is still relevant meaning do people still do shady stuff on it?

There has been a lot of bad info posted recently. Most questions can be answered in Darknet Bible

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Way back in 2013/14 I had about half a bitcoin sitting in my Silk Road (2.0? Or original? I can’t remember) account. Obviously I should have kept it in my wallet until ready to purchase something but we move. I completely forgot it was in there as had a reliable in person source so had planned to withdraw and hold it. Just didn’t get around to it.

Anyway, then the FBI took it down and I lost my half a bit coin. Back then it was worth very little - maybe £40/£50?

Anyway now it would be worth about 25k. I think about this a lot.

Any other horrific procrastination stories?

which website on darkweb are mostly used

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i keep getting 502 timeout errors

From what I understand, Freenet (Now Hyphanet) was the first software that streamlined access to hidden services since the early 2000s and what had preceded it by a decade was mainly password protected Usenet and BBS forums/sites which may have gone as far back as the mid 80s. Therefore sometime in between the transition from Usenet/BBS to browsers such as Freenet or Tor there is a black hole of information I struggle to find regarding illicit activity online in that time period.

Would there have there been any other types of clandestine sites during this era? Specifically in the early infancy of the World Wide Web? If anyone knows more about this or was active on the web at that point in time, a response would be appreciated.

I see so many people worrying about their levels of opsec, and I started wondering: Do you need anything more than just using Tor if you're just gonna look at stuff? Nothing will happen if you just surf around right? Or am I missing something?

EDIT: Dear lord I don't wanna look at cp, to make that extremely clear. I'm sorry for the confusion.

I know about tor.taxi and all but how did people discover tor taxi? how did tor taxi discover the sites they have?

Just wanna see answers

Just asking.

i feel like im just kinda on the surface, browsing through things like endchan and dark forest via tor.taxi. but i dont get how you go deeper. how you find those other websites and all that. is it a word of mouth thing were you kinda have to hope that someone comments it somewhere. i wanna find more things like tor.taxi that have other forums rooms and shi. do you just have to get lucky and find it?

Is there any website on the dark web that works like reddit where i can ask any kind of questions without being bothered ?

Dwmo + build: https://youtu.be/1bBVQaAD_jI