Jack Recider

And Sam was already really busy making moonshine, growing cannabis, and packaging everything up and dealing with the orders.

And Sam was already really busy making moonshine, growing cannabis, and packaging everything up and dealing with the orders.

Okay, so I want to pause here and just do a little fact check. It's true that printers typically put some dots on every page they print. These are almost invisible, and these dots mainly go unnoticed by most people. And this is presumably to track the paper back to which printer printed it. But it's not exactly certain what information is encoded in those little dots.

Okay, so I want to pause here and just do a little fact check. It's true that printers typically put some dots on every page they print. These are almost invisible, and these dots mainly go unnoticed by most people. And this is presumably to track the paper back to which printer printed it. But it's not exactly certain what information is encoded in those little dots.

I don't think your IP address shows up in it, but it's more like a little signature of which printer it came from. And I think this is to help law enforcement trace counterfeit money to see if it came from the same origin. So while it's probably smart to not use a printer that does this, I'm not sure how effective this step was to actually hide his tracks.

I don't think your IP address shows up in it, but it's more like a little signature of which printer it came from. And I think this is to help law enforcement trace counterfeit money to see if it came from the same origin. So while it's probably smart to not use a printer that does this, I'm not sure how effective this step was to actually hide his tracks.

Now, this is when he'd hand over the packages to his cousin, and he told her to ship these out. But there were certain rules that he told her to follow.

Now, this is when he'd hand over the packages to his cousin, and he told her to ship these out. But there were certain rules that he told her to follow.

It's always fascinating to me to see what moral lines people draw in the sand and don't cross. You'd think being a criminal just means fuck the rules, be all punk about it. But you just heard Sam talk about a lot of the rules that he follows to stay safe and secure. But adding rules just for moral reasons is interesting to me.

It's always fascinating to me to see what moral lines people draw in the sand and don't cross. You'd think being a criminal just means fuck the rules, be all punk about it. But you just heard Sam talk about a lot of the rules that he follows to stay safe and secure. But adding rules just for moral reasons is interesting to me.

One was that Sam would only use registered level three sex offenders as his return addresses because he thought it would be wrong to put a good citizen down as a return address. Another was that while Sam sold a lot of different drugs, there were some that he wouldn't sell, the ones that took your soul away from you. And he also didn't want to sell to kids, but he had no way of checking that.

One was that Sam would only use registered level three sex offenders as his return addresses because he thought it would be wrong to put a good citizen down as a return address. Another was that while Sam sold a lot of different drugs, there were some that he wouldn't sell, the ones that took your soul away from you. And he also didn't want to sell to kids, but he had no way of checking that.

And that's the thing. Doing this as your job, you really do need a moral code because the stuff you see on these sites gets dark fast. And some things that are for sale will really make you question where you stand on a lot of stuff. Like, should there even be a market where you can buy and sell anything? Stolen items, counterfeits, forbidden items, poisons, weapons, and of course drugs?

And that's the thing. Doing this as your job, you really do need a moral code because the stuff you see on these sites gets dark fast. And some things that are for sale will really make you question where you stand on a lot of stuff. Like, should there even be a market where you can buy and sell anything? Stolen items, counterfeits, forbidden items, poisons, weapons, and of course drugs?

Sam was only involved with the drugs part.

Sam was only involved with the drugs part.

This is a libertarian way of looking at the world. Libertarians want to maximize autonomy and minimize the government's involvement in your life. Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the first big darknet marketplace, Silk Road, was a libertarian too. He had to be in order to run a marketplace like Silk Road.

This is a libertarian way of looking at the world. Libertarians want to maximize autonomy and minimize the government's involvement in your life. Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the first big darknet marketplace, Silk Road, was a libertarian too. He had to be in order to run a marketplace like Silk Road.

He thought people should be allowed to make their own choices of what drugs they can buy, even if they're illegal drugs. But then weapons started showing up on Silk Road. And it really made Ross take a long, hard look into his soul to figure out what rules should be around weapons. And he ultimately decided that it's going to be prohibited to sell anything whose purpose was to harm or defraud.

He thought people should be allowed to make their own choices of what drugs they can buy, even if they're illegal drugs. But then weapons started showing up on Silk Road. And it really made Ross take a long, hard look into his soul to figure out what rules should be around weapons. And he ultimately decided that it's going to be prohibited to sell anything whose purpose was to harm or defraud.