Yes..THAT weed: "Weed As Surprise Driver For Mass Cryptoproficiency"

[dixiegrrrrl]

Ever since the e-mail encryption PGP was created, civil liberties activists have wondered how to get people in general to care about cryptography and protecting their rights on the net. What would make them care? The answer appears to come from a totally unexpected direction.

A marketplace called Silk Road has been making headlines lately. It is a marketplace for plants and plant parts; plants that are banned, but that people still want to acquire, and quite frequently do.

Silk Road is only accessible through Tor, an anonymizing subnetwork on the net that people in Egypt used during the insurrection, and which makes the person using it practically impossible to track. (Install from here.) It routes the connection through a number of random connections throughout the world. And the only way to pay is with bitcoin, the anonymous regulation-defying cryptocurrency. The Gawker story tells us about a person who bought something and got it in the mail four days later. “It felt like I was in the future”, he is quoted as saying.

http://falkvinge.net/2011/06/07/weed-as-surprise-driver-for-mass-cryptoproficiency/

[Warren DeMontague]

1. No!!! No!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Yes Yes Yes!!!!!!!!!!!

[Warren DeMontague]

3. The internet may just spell doom for dumb-ass prohibition laws just as it has

put the kabosh on the fevered fantasies of authoritarian anti-porn zealots that somehow they'll be able to stop people from looking at pictures of other people fucking.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. not if Chuck Schumer has his way....

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Unfortunately, most of our party leadership are cowards or wrong-headed on this.

Legalize, regulate, and tax it. NOW.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. it's really not my party so much, anymore

they're only degrees different on the fascist/fahrenheit scale

all you have to do is look at the appointments, and those who he allowed to continue on once he took office

that FBI scumbag Mueller is one prime example



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5286811&mesg_id=5286828

[GeorgeGist]

11. They've seen the light ...

and are now negotiating with Big Pharma to assure that profits flow to the rich.

[ixion]

4. w00t!

:smoke:

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Boookmarked that site, have we????

:evilgrin:

[ixion]

12. hmmmm... I'll never tell.

:evilgrin:


:rofl:

[Ian David]

8. I thought this was going to be about using hemp DNA to generate encryption codes. n/t

[ngant17]

9. if it got thru the mail

either the USPS is incredibly incompetent or they are deliberately letting the package(s) go for some ulterior motive.

everything is scanned by x-ray or some other device that detects the IR signature of most narcotics. UPS and FedEx use the same machines. You can buy it and you can pay for it and you will probably avoid detection at the start, but you are going to get caught once the package is sent using normal snail mail.

The best way to avoid getting busted is to not buy your drugs directly from complete strangers. Or grow it yourself in small quantities.