I've often wondered about this and I've come to the conclusion that such products must exist if you're plugged deep enough into the criminal market.
Medical services, dental plans, concierge services, one-off insurances, etc ..
These are all markets that criminals need and no doubt they exist.
If you are forced to decrypt a veracrypt volume on your siezed computer, the very fact that you are using veracrypt is probably enough for law enforcement to presume the existence of a hidden volume.
You can deny it, sure, but it's definitely no longer plausible.
If you are using veracrypt on a siezed computer, that fact is probably enough for law enforcement to presume the existence of a hidden volume.
You can deny it, sure, but it's no longer plausible.
Also looks like the community has chosen Simplex for instant messaging.
Great to see it being used this way.
Trad-Fi is a feeding trough right now.
Honestly, it's not that normies disagree with Monero's goals, it''s just still way too complicated for most normies to bootstrap into getting, let alone using. And I've tried showing people.
In the end local people resort to anything that is useful as a currency - fish, meat, eggs, veggies, skill--swaps - I'm down for that too.
This absolutely.
Physical off-ramp services like delivery, PO Boxes, lockers, etc.. are a weak link right now.
Sure, you can buy giftcards for mostly everything, but if you're buying a physical product, then between the giftcard broker, store and delivery service, your transactions are easily tied to your real identity and location.
As pointed out in the github thread by someone, the more useful opsec flow should have gone something like this.
And make the offline computer an offline vault-vm on a non-internet Qubes laptop .
@blake @gunnm
Excellent article.