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Re: Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece

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I wonder what those "triangle crackers" were and what was so risky about them.

Firecrackers from Poland, glad they didn't ship explosives in the regular mail often it is shipped on passenger aircraft in the cargo hold. You would go from petty smuggler to interpol's most wanted terrorist really fast if something happened. IIRC the darknet exhibit also shows the packaging, maybe the firecracker guy didn't want that on display.

Oh, THOSE kind of crackers. I was thinking rice cakes...

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A 1oz [Counterfeit] Canadian Gold Coin for $30 The description doesn’t indicate it was sold as a counterfeit, but no way you can buy an oz of gold for $30 on the dark web... https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/r/021-canadian-gol...

That's a lot of "w."

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I loved the "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" book. I mean it must something subversive to be sold on the darkweb. Edit: the other object are interesting: credit card, spy camera...

The Darknet has many recipe books for cannibals, often with disturbing (but almost delicious) photos of the resulting meals.

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I honestly expected it to be 90% drugs, but I was pleasantly surprised to see the diversity of the items.

It makes sense; people interested in drugs are presumably also interested in other things, and ordering drugs online somewhat implies a certain level of expendable income, so it'd be a decent marketplace for not-drugs. And I imagine drug-hobbyists probably have more diverse interests than the average person, as they've already expressed interests in the not-publicly safe hobbies (but likely still also have safe hobbies as well)

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The dark web/deep web/dark net/whateveryouwannacallit has many legal things sold on it. My favorite story was a few years back, a vendor there was selling drugs. However, they also had their own coffee blend, and they would send a bag of their coffee with every purchase. Turns out the coffee was phenomenal. The vendor started getting so many requests to buy the coffee directly that they were able to just start selling coffee. I don't remember if that got them to stop selling their illegal merchandise, but at least they had one avenue of semi-ethical income.

Re: Random Darknet Shopper: A Live Mail Art Piece

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firecrackers from Poland, glad they didn't ship explosives in the regular mail often it is shipped on passenger aircraft in the cargo hold. You would go from petty smuggler to interpol's most wanted terrorist really fast if something happened. IIRC the darknet exhibit also shows the packaging, maybe the firecracker guy didn't want that on display.

Oh, THOSE kind of crackers. I was thinking rice cakes...

Rip-off doritos anyone?
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