First legal shop I stopped in the clerk asked me, “what kind do you usually get?” My response: “whatever the guy has.”

You've convinced me to properly take the plunge into security. Just wanted to let you know your podcasts convinced me. Thanks dude.

Just throwing this out there, from tne TOR project website "Generally speaking, we don't recommend using a VPN with Tor unless you're an advanced user who knows how to configure both in a way that doesn't compromise your privacy."

I always wanted to start a podcast like this but I am glad I didn't because now I just get to enjoy the stories without putting in the research haha. I hope you do well! I love the visuals too.

A+++ content! You should add video to the KZfaq uploads. Even just a slide show of Alex while you're describing him is worth 1,000 additional words

I moved from Kansas where weed is still very illegal to Oregon where it's the opposite. I still get anxiety buying it at a shop and having it on me. Don't feel comfortable until it's in my house and even then I try to hide it even though it's not a big deal here. In Kansas they will ruin your life if you're caught with any amount.

As soon as I realized the servers had been cloned I would have instantly closed shop and jumped on the first plane to Antigua or Cypress. In fact I would already have been living somehwere with no Canadian or American extradition treaty. It blows my mind that all they did was move the "not so hidden services" servers.

This is so accurate I was surfing every one of these markets at some point and everything here is very accurate and it makes me giddy to hear the stories I watched unravel in life told to the masses.

NEVER USE A VPN WHEN USING TOR 1:15, please update this into the description or comments or somewhere

The way you tell these stories from life is just, so oddly soothing to listen to. Also, not only should you have a separate computer, that computer shall never ever be connected to the same network as any network you work on and preferably only to a non GPS equipped GSM router and only used far far away from where you live and never go that secret place with anything that can be tracked in any sort of way. And regarding social engineering, I know of a few hackers having done some odd stuff that is only possible in the country I live in... And they might be interested talking about it to you. Caught and sentenced served for it so no secret, but still quite an amazing way of social engineering...

I appreciate how you mention the laws in different areas, and don't just assume we all live in USA and know all the rules at there. Great podcast and channel.

I love your aesthetic. For years I've been trying to achieve something I like with black and red. You nailed it.

this is the best channel on youtube, i find myself here every night

Thank you for this episode.

Just found your channel recently, love the content and the amount you upload!

So many unnecessary mistakes were made, unbelievable. They should really step up their op sec and/or hire propper software engineers.. one can just hope, that other people learned from these mistakes.

Thank you for continuing to produce such amazing content. Your awesome!

Great work keep it up! Lots more tales from the Darknet deserve to be heard such as the mysterious death of Barnaby Jack

Idk who does the artwork for this channel but props to them. Scrolling through the episodes I am blown away.

Just found your channel. Amazing content! Hope you gets all the subscribers

Yoo I planned on shopping on aphabay but backed out last minute,crazy to see the behind the scenes

This is a really good video man!

Ts is my fuel man, thanks for the motivation and stimulating my brain

Any one eles get weirdly paranoid listening to this at night? I'm such a chicken 🤣

Also the ytcracker episodes pretty dope ...im diggin his music thank you for showing me nerdcore!

So glad I stumbled on this channel, I wonder if it’s on Spotify

Ep. 104 referred me back to here, and this was incredible. I feel sad for the lady and her child.

hell yea! another episode!

1:50 To be fair its been said multiple times that they believe Alex was just the fall guy for the operation and people had always elluded to the fact of them being russian based. Alex got caught but he was also not the sole fouder. There was another admin who was on the team and had an online presence on the forums and some of the subreddits who goes by the name of DeSnake. Who also happens to be of russian orgin after diggin into his persona and if not from russian he is from a soviet union era country lol. Not only do i believe the fall story as alex made quite a few opsec mistakes that a true market operator wouldnt be making. There is also a reason DeSnake didnt get picked up when they went after alphabay and if you notice they seem to kinda leave his name out when talking about alphabay its like they are downplaying his role and hoping that people forget about him something. Not only does he have great opsec he is also an incredible market programmer and it was because of him that alphabay was where it was. He was able to make sure the markets were always online and running smooth and efficent he even helped program or maybe even just him but eitther way they created an anti ddos program which allowed the market to be online during a time when markets were being knocked offline multiple times a day and some were completely unaccessable for days or weeks at a time and the only way they were able to have some up time was to pay the hackers an insane amount weekly ( we are talking north of 15-20k a WEEK for a market to operate and he had multiple under attack) until they developed that work around and then other markets even began to employ their ddos shield. So not only did he make sure the markets run smooth he was also the one that coded the market from the ground up which was another reason alphabay was harder to attack and hack then other markets as most at that time used kind of a cookie cutter setup so when they were able to exploit one market they could then use that attack against mulitple others that were just rearranged clones. Also a few months back DeSnake redid alphabay from the ground up and literally started from a fresh slate and introduced the market both as an onion address and he coded the market to also be able to run on the more secure ip2 network as well. the market also still has the same rules that apply to any hacking or malware as they did before. The rules dont allow any products or services that would attack any countries that are in the russian federation if thats the right organisation i may be wrong on that name but basically Russia and any of its currents buddies (old USSR and still wish they were). Between him being a key individual in the market behind the scenes (they were aware of how much DeSnake did and how key he was for the market to run they had tons of communications between them when they siezed all of alex things) and he was never really investigated and as far as i can remeber and tell they dont even actually know who the person behind the screen name even is and all that leads be to believe that they are fully aware that connection pathway if they followed it would terminate straight in Russia. DeSnake was smart and let Alex think he had the reigns and played off his want to be CHAD persona thinking he was player and pimp and shit he knew that alex craved attention so why not let him. its the same thing El Mayo did with El Chapo... let everyone sing his name and praise him and dont mention me because they are going to go after the one making the news and rumors. Once they were getting close Desnake backed off and they were on to alex. Once they siezed the site and got alex im sure Desnake was sitting in russia laughing to himself. He took a few million and went on vacation for several months while the media was having a frenzy with alphabay and its "creator" or its "leader" who was captured and then eventually commited sucidide. He knew the people he was partnered with are serious people and they would go after his family if they thought he snitched so he took his life to protect the life of his wife. All the media buzz dies down and some other markets broken up through being busted or exit scamming and once the heat has finally cooled off we get a notice on Dread with desnake confirming his identity (some still think its fishy and he might be law enforcement but he make a new market from the ground up and he was also never picked up or anything and with him being in russia he has absolutly no worries about outside Law) and saying that he was restarting alphabay and he would be recoding it from the ground up. So as of this moment [May 5,2022] Alphabay is fully functional and chugging along, You can create an account in a matter of a few minutes and be ording in under 10min if you know how to setup PGP. So im confortable believing the story that Alex was basically a paid fall guy, killed himself to protect his wife and kid and probably have them taken care of for life, real owners let the source code go said fuck it and took a vaction until all the heat died down and the world moved on from alphabay. Came back and programmed a whole new market from the ground up completely in house and its deployed both on TOR as well as ip2 and chugging along like nothing had happened. Law enforcement arrested exactly who they were supposed to. Its all part of an extremely well thought out plan. Shows how good the person that organized the program is and shows hes playing chess while LEO is still trying to figure out how to set up checkers.

@JackRhysider Hey man, just wanted to say that you are hands down my favorite youtube channel. I love the subject matter, the artwork, your excellent radio voice, etc. I am extremely picky when it comes to consuming anything on the internet so thank you for making something good enough for the picky ones.

"If you do wanna be anonymous and conduct massive illegal activities online..." I stg, I thought he was gonna break into a surfshark ad.

very underrated channel.

love the intro.. great videos

Brilliant!! Thanks Jack 🙏❤️

Good content, thank you

When people thought bitcoin was untraceable....on a public ledger.

That’s what I get from this also . These guys don’t know when to quit when your ahead .

How do I get the job of being the guy who gets to think of witty op names for the government

Agora- from Greek meaning "gathering place" or "assembly"; the Greek equivalent of the Roman forum, a public gathering place which often served as the main market in a Greek or Roman city. Also a Portuguese word meaning "now".

Random comment, but there's an amazing 3D effect with the video visual.

Super underrated channel

Keep your OPSEC list handy

When I first started listening to your podcast, I thought your name was, “jackry cider” lol

I love these stories. It brings me back to my hacking days. I hacked games and software when I ran a BBS.

Love ya jack!

Dopest intro ever 👏

Great vid

Op-Sec has no downtime, it's everywhere, any time, always, towards everybody

Mad respect the person who decided to ban Panthenol

Yeah; the fact the dispensaries in CT expect you to know the type, potency, hybrid, etc., as a Gen Xer, I’m like “I’m used to getting whatever is in the little baggie for $20 when I was in high school and college.

I would like to listen a story from you about HYDRA - the most popular darknet drug store in post USSR countries, which was recently shutdown

This my 2nd fav episode ...cam the carder my #1

Should we have a true free market where alphabay products can be available for purchase by anyone, in store?

Sounds like the feds where having fun with all the dope in the beginning... Lol

I love that the message of the video is, maintain opsec + get out while you can. Because people are gonna people anyways.

Did you say fire up a VPN and then connect to tor are you trying to get people arrested

Told you cripto isn't anonymous...and if we all start to use it it's easy to then know everything and control everything about the ppl ...your anonymous until you get one connection and poof

Is there a Tor apk?

I use a Tor Browser within a virtual machine. So used to Kali Linux being my vm. This and Joe Rogan are my favorite podcasts. Also, never use a VPN while using Tor Browser.

States do have the right to rule themselves.

Awesome

Funny how 230 applies to Twitter but not Silk Road or Alpha Bay. I wonder why they don't use that as a defense.

Banger vid

You would have to live in a siberian forest with a laptop to successfully run a dark market. Lol

I dont think he killed himself. He was swapped with someone else and hes free now. he blatantly had 1/4 of a billion dollars minimum, that could buy every guard in the whole prison, what would the govenor say if confronted with 10 million.. >? lol, you know that guy hangin by a towel was a lookalike.

Dutch High Tech Crime Unit (DHTCU) could actually spell “Dutch”. Sadly the acronym wouldn’t work, would’ve been a great name.

just watched mobman

Yes

Arguably, using a VPN with tor is actually less safe than using tor alone.

You know that alphabay is back. From one of the old admins. Thought u fight wanna know.

BRO VPN IS ONLY GOOD IF YOU IP IS ALSO CHANGING. I think it’s a dynamic IP addresses but not for sure.

What happened to evolution owner? Did he/she ran away with the money scot-free?

Some one as Hack my stuff a d keeps doing across phone can anyone help or advise

The first part of this podcast has aged well, since the federal hemp farm bill essentially legalized THC-a but NOT THC, so now you can transact illicit cannabis on the regular internet. LOL

Even his name sounds cool!!!

Heres what i dont get, why dont these people operate from countries that cant extradite?

its addressable public infrustructure.....no one can stop breathing in each others breath and farts, not even fish.

Can you tell me a good site that is working now ?

I think it was totally worth it! On a death bed, when it’s time to ponder on what you achieved in your life, what will your answer be?

Alphebay is still the go to for drugs fym

I know these dark web guys like to think that they're super smart, but they're really kind of dumb. You have multiple server problems at the same time that they're just happens to be this ridiculously over the top accident outside of your house? It's like a badly written spy movie. I'd be out the back door in a heartbeat and I would have everyone of my devices set up for self-destruction

his 2% comission is worth nearly half a billion dollars at the moment

Using a VPN before connecting to TOR will allow the VPN to see everything you do. Unless you made and hoste the VPN don't use one.

Damn alex

This story is sad, but there more to it u should have focused a Lil bit on how he was obsessed with pickup culture and being a "alfa male" that's why it was called alfabay

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Money corrupts everyone.

He got Epstiened!!

Use tails

You ever do a show name Radiolab?

13:37 and then they finally chilled for the first time with all the bought stuff

Bro, that introduction, the last sentence was brutal 😮

♡dread and dark fail ♡

Yo quit snitching jabronie!

Stick and move!

he used the computer once?

Bruh, the admin had a txt file with all passwords.

getting relax with drugs is bad

I am digitally completely handicapped. In my youth there were no computers yet and I never got access to any of them nor did I learn anything beyond using a mobile device. I have a question for any of you who would know a bit more: that piece of software that the Dutch cops tried to get users (especially sellers) of Hansa to download, software that was disguised as if it were something that would allow for cashing out BTC '(even) when the site might be down', 'as a security measure for your comfort' but that in fact would try to send the actual IP address of the computer it would be installed on to the cops that by then weren't just running Hansa (and I believe Dream as well?) but did so in an attempt to identify as many as its users (and of course, again, especially sellers)... what security measures would have effectively protected those among the Hansa users who would have inadvertently gotten convinced by all the slick stories of the cops during the time they were posing as the admins of Hansa (this being only one more or less final trick after several other ones had already been tried by them during the span of only a few weeks) and indeed would have installed that so treacherous bit of software? What could have protected those darknet users nonetheless?? TY in advance!

Dude, that Ross guy got life in prison because he was guilty on intending and successfully killing someone with an assassin he hired, which both the assassin and target never existed