Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-03 Thread Ahmed Hassan
One question is still remain unanswered. How did they locate Silkroad server before locating him? They had full image of the server before his arrest. On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:26 PM, shadowOps07 shadow.uni...@gmail.com wrote: No, it was a rookie fuck-up that enabled old-fashioned detective

Re: [tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

2013-10-02 Thread Ahmed Hassan
Go to page 24 here, and read how was caught: http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf He was caught because of this post - stackoverflow.com/questions/15445285/how-can-i-connect-to-a-tor-hidden-service-using-curl-in-php On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:33 PM,

Re: [tor-talk] Let's make Onion Addresses Meaningful To Humans

2012-02-25 Thread Ahmed Hassan
and store that file where? How that encrypted file will be updated? On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 04:09 -0500, eliaz wrote: Why not just collect onion addresses in an encrypted file? ... On 2/24/2012 5:36 AM, Ahmed Hassan wrote: Hello Folks, I have a cool idea to make onion addresses memorable

Re: [tor-talk] Let's make Onion Addresses Meaningful To Humans

2012-02-25 Thread Ahmed Hassan
OK, here are some real examples I got from a dictionary that has a 67843 words. I collected most of the words from the Bible and Gutenberg project. I used Python to convert to decimal from base 32. DuckDuckGo 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion = cowboys-slipt-pisanio-utgar-spinnt.onion Official Tor

Re: [tor-talk] Let's make Onion Addresses Meaningful To Humans

2012-02-24 Thread Ahmed Hassan
Well,.. The according to the onion wiki, the length of the onion address is 80 bits. The largest number the onion address can get is: 1208925819614629174706175 That's because FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is the largest number (unsigned) in hex for 80 bits key length. If we assume we have a