Remember the Key Bridge collapse? With as eventful a year as 2025 has been, we wouldn’t blame anyone for forgetting that in March of 2024, container ship MV Dali plowed into the bridge across Baltimore Harbor, turning it into 18,000 tons of scrap metal in about four seconds, while taking the lives of six very unlucky Maryland transportation workers in the process. Now, more than a year and a half after the disaster, we finally have an idea of what caused the accident. According to the National Transportation Safety Board’s report, a loss of electrical power at just the wrong moment resulted in a cascade of failures, leaving the huge vessel without steerage. However, it was the root cause of the power outage that really got us: a wire with an incorrectly applied label.
Sal Mercogliano, our go-to guy for anything to do with shipping, has a great rundown of the entire cascade of failures, with the electrically interesting part starting around the 8:30 mark. The NTSB apparently examined a control cabinet on the Dali and found one wire with a heat-shrink label overlapping the plastic body of its terminating ferrule. This prevented the wire from being properly inserted into a terminal block, leading to poor electrical contact. Over time, the connection got worse, eventually leading to an undervoltage condition that tripped a circuit breaker and kicked off everything else that led to the collision. It’s a sobering thought that something so mundane and easily overlooked could result in such a tragedy, but there it is.
We’ve been harping a bit on the Flock situation in this space over the last month or so, but for good reason, or at least it seems to us. Flock’s 80,000-strong network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), while understandably attractive from a law-and-order perspective, is a little hard to swallow for anyone interested in privacy and against pervasive surveillance. And maybe all of that wouldn’t be so bad if we had an inkling that the security start-up had at least paid passing attention to cybersecurity basics.
But alas, Benn Jordan and a few of his cybersecurity pals have taken a look inside a Flock camera, and the news isn’t good. Granted, this appears to be a first-pass effort, but given that the “hack” is a simple as pressing the button on the back of the camera a few times. Doing so creates a WiFi hotspot on the camera, and from there it’s off to the races. There are plenty of other disturbing findings in the video, so check it out.
Sufficiently annuated readers will no doubt recall classic toys of the ’60s and ’70s, such as Lite-Brite and Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, and games like Mouse Trap and Toss Across. We recall owning all of those at one time or another, and surprisingly, they all sprang from the inventive mind of the same man: Burt Meyer, who died on October 30 at the age of 99. We have many fond memories of his inventions, but truth be told, we never much cared for Mouse Trap as a game; we just set up the Rube Goldberg-esque trap and played with that. The rest, though? Quality fun. RIP, Burt.
Last week, we featured the unfortunate story about a Russian humanoid robot that drunk-walked its way into “demo hell” history. And while it’s perhaps a bit too easy to poke fun at something like this, it’s a simple fact of life that the upright human form is inherently unstable, and that any mechanism designed to mimic that form is bound to fall once in a while. With that in mind, Disney Research engineers are teaching their humanoid bots to fall with style. The idea is for the robots to protect their vital parts in the event of a fall, which is something humans (usually) do instinctively. They first did hundreds of falls with virtual robots, rewarding them for correctly ending up in the target pose, and eventually worked the algorithms into real, albeit diminutive, robots. The video in the article shows them all sticking the landing, and even if some of the end poses don’t seem entirely practical, it’s pretty cool tech.
And finally, this week on the Hackaday Podcast was discussed the infuriating story of an EV-enthusiast who had trouble servicing the brakes on his Hyundai Ioniq. Check out the podcast if you want the full rant and the color commentary, but the TL;DL version is that Hyundai has the functions needed to unlock the parking brakes stuck behind a very expensive paywall. Luckily for our hacker hero, a $399 Harbor Freight bidirectional scan tool was up to the task, and the job was completed for far less than what the officially sanctioned tools would have cost. But it turns out there may have been a cheaper and more delightfully hackish way to do the job, with nothing but a 12-volt battery pack and a couple of jumper wires. Lots of vehicles with electric parking brakes use two-wire systems, so i’s a good tip for the shade tree mechanic to keep in mind.
We make no claims to be an expert on anything, but we do know that rule number one of working with big, expensive, mission-critical equipment is: Don’t break the big, expensive, mission-critical equipment. Unfortunately, though, that’s just what happened to the Deep Space Network’s 70-meter dish antenna at Goldstone, California. NASA announced the outage this week, but the accident that damaged the dish occurred much earlier, in mid-September. DSS-14, as the antenna is known, is a vital part of the Deep Space Network, which uses huge antennas at three sites (Goldstone, Madrid, and Canberra) to stay in touch with satellites and probes from the Moon to the edge of the solar system. The three sites are located roughly 120 degrees apart on the globe, which gives the network full coverage of the sky regardless of the local time.
Losing the “Mars Antenna,” as DSS-14 is informally known, is a blow to the DSN, a network that was already stretched to the limit of its capabilities, and is likely to be further challenged as the race back to the Moon heats up. As for the cause of the accident, NASA explains that the antenna was “over-rotated, causing stress on the cabling and piping in the center of the structure.” It’s not clear which axis was over-rotated, but based on some specs we found that say the azimuth travel range is ±265 degrees “from wrap center,” we suspect it was the vertical axis in the base. It sounds like the azimuth went past that limit, which wrapped the swags of cables and hoses that run the antenna tightly, causing the damage. We’d have thought there would be a physical stop of some sort to prevent over-rotation, but then again, running a structure that big up against a stop would be very much an “irresistible force, immovable object” scenario. Here’s hoping they can get DSS-14 patched up quickly and back in service.
Speaking of having a bad day on the job, we have to take pity on these Russian engineers for the “demo hell” they went through while revealing the country’s first AI-powered humanoid robot. AIdol, as the bot is known, seemed to struggle from the start, doddering from behind some curtains like a nursing home patient with a couple of nervous-looking fellows flanking it. The bot paused briefly before continuing its drunk-walk, pausing again to deliver a somewhat feeble wave to the crowd before entering the terminal stumble and face-plant part of the demo. The bot’s attendants quickly dragged it away, leaving a pile of parts on the stage while more helpers tried — and failed — to deploy a curtain to hide the scene. It was a pretty sad scene to behold, made worse by the choice of walk-out music (Bill Conti’s iconic “Gonna Fly Now,” better known as the theme from Rocky).
We just noticed that pretty much everything we have to write about this week has a “bad day at work” vibe to it, so to continue on with that theme, witness this absolutely disgusting restoration of a GPU that spent way too many years in a smoker’s house. The card, an Asus 9800GT Matrix, is from 2008, so it may have spent the last 17 years getting caked with tar and nicotine, along with a fair amount of dust and perhaps cat hair, from the look of it. Having spent way too much time cleaning TVs similarly caked with grossness most foul, we couldn’t stomach watching the video of the restoration process, but it’s available in the article if you dare.
And the final entry in our “So you think your job sucks?” roundup, behold the poor saps who have to generate training data for AI-powered domestic robots. The story details the travails of Naveen Kumar, who spends his workday on simple chores such as folding towels, with the twist of doing it with a GoPro strapped to his forehead to capture all the action. The videos are then sent to a U.S. client, who uses them to develop a training model so that humanoid robots can eventually copy the surprisingly complex physical movements needed to perform such a mundane task. Training a robot is all well and good, but how about training them how to move around inside a house made for humans? That’s where it gets really creepy, as an AI startup has partnered with a big real estate company to share video footage captured from those “walk-through” videos real estate agents are so fond of. So if your house has recently been on the market, there’s a non-zero chance that it’s being used to train an army of domestic robots.
And finally, we guess this one fits the rough-day-at-work theme, but only if your job is being a European astronaut, who may someday be chowing down on protein powder made from their own urine. The product is known as Solein — sorry, but have they never seen the movie Soylent Green? — and is made via a gas fermentation process using microbes, electricity, and air. The Earth-based process uses ammonia as a nitrogen source, but in orbit or on long-duration deep-space missions, urea harvested from astronaut pee would be used instead. There’s no word on what Solein tastes like, but from the look of it, and considering the source, we’d be a bit reluctant to dig in.
Ahh, today is that glorious day when I realize that my plan to write one or even two articles a month on my wonderful blog is failing. And then I remind myself that my worth checking series is not only there to share knowledge and interesting material but also to save my ass in just such situations. To
I hope you haven’t forgotten about the Worth Checking series. Here you can check out the latest one. I thought I’d post monthly in this format, but it would turn out that I’d have more entries like this than my own :) If there were maybe 10 articles a month, it would make as much sense as possible.
AlphaBay market is an auction-style darknet marketplace for drugs and other black market items. You can obtain a seller account and put listings for the community.
NO harming others (hitman service, murders etc.). We do not conduct or condone any violence through Alphabay market website.
NO guns/guns discussions (even for self-defense). Reinforces rule #1.
NO terrorism related products, services or propaganda. Regardless of what you think or feel about a topic or country or anything, this is not the place for it especially if it involves hate or violence. We are a place of business, constructive community discussions and opportunities. Reinforces rule #1 and #2.
NO erotica/porn/softcore of any sorts (logins for major sites are okay). Child porn, animal abuse videos cover this rule – we have never previously allowed anything like this and we will not start doing now as it is something we strongly oppose that on Alphabay Market.
NO fentanyl or fentanyl-laced/based substances (even if it is done ‘correctly’). We no longer allow fentanyl or substances laced/based on it due to buyer safety. Greedy & amateur vendors have ruined this for everyone on Alphabay Market.
Interesting fact, in the US street-dealing and DNMs have been blamed by mainstream media for the opioid crises while ignoring the companies which create OxyCodone and the likes, which not only amount for the majority of deaths but also unfortunately are the start journey for many addicts.
NO Covid-19 vaccines/cures or vaccines of any sorts. There is no real way for Staff to check these products as the effects of taking it can vary person to person.
NO any Russia/Belarus/Kazakhstan/Armenia/Kyrgyzstan-related activity (people, organizations, companies, critical infrastructure, non-profits, governments) or citizens data. We are now specifying which other CIS countries can NOT have activity of any sorts or data related on this website.
NO ransomware selling, recruiting for access to deploy ransomware or ransomware discussions.
NO hate-speech against any religion, culture, skin colour, profession. Try being polite and respectful of others. When you are not towards another user, specify a constructive, logical & preferrably fact-based reason(s) why that is the case.
On Alphabay Market no doxing of any kind regardless if you are buyer or seller. Releasing other peoples’ information is strictly forbidden and it will result in an immediate ban on Alphabay Market.
NO outside escrow sales on Alphabay Market. For safety of both buyers and sellers we warn you that making a transaction outside of our secure escrow is 100% your responsibility. If a vendor/buyer is asking you to do that he might be attempting to scam you, immediately report that user.
NO advertising for non-approved off-market services or websites. Non-vetted and especially off-market services or websites can not be advertised under any circumstances. You MUST seek approval by Administration before linking your website (on your listing, forum profile signature etc.)
We may change, add, remove or otherwise alter in any sort, shape or form the Rules and Terms of Service without the need to notify any user. It is the responsibility of the user to keep an eye of the global website rules at any given time and Staff will not accept excuses such as ‘not being up to update’ with rules when e.g. placing warnings via our warning system for breaking of certain rules.
Global Buyer Rules / Terms of Service on Alphabay Market
Adhere to all global AlphaBay market rules. No exceptions.
Attempts to scam other users or vendors can result in being given warning points, account limitation or permanent ban – all on a case-by-case basis and per discretion of Staff.
NO sending spam, unwanted messages or links through Conversations (Private Messages) on the platform. To prevent abuse & spam as a new buyer you will have a limit of 12 conversations (excluding dispute/escrow conversations or conversations started by another user).
As your account ages, you are more active and most importantly your Trust Level (TL) increases that limit will become higher. For true conversations experience, use the Forum to contact vendors/other users. Marketplace conversations are meant to be short and they self-delete if inactive.
NO Trust/Distrust begging. Trust Level works by taking into account many factors but most importantly what is the trust factor of a user who has clicked Trust or Distrust on a given profile. As a buyer you can politely ask vendors to rate you ‘Trust’ if they feel like it.
Harassing them or other users on the platform for this is NOT ALLOWED. Revenge ‘Distrust’ by one or multiple individuals against one or several individuals is also NOT ALLOWED on Alphabay Market.
Disputes require any buyer to respond within 3 days (72 hours). If buyer does not respond, the ADR will be cancelled, a live moderator will be assigned to the dispute and most likely rule in vendors favour.
NO hacking or abusing the platform whatever the reason. Security testing, hacking, attempting to manipulate the system is NOT ALLOWED unless a permission has been obtained from Administration. We encourage bug testing and have our own bug bounty program but only to those who apply beforehand and request permission are eligble for rewards.
Dispute decisions by Staff are final. If you believe Staff has mistreated you or rulled incorrectly you can always create a ticket and encrypt your message with PGP only available to members of Administration. While we can not reverse the decision of that specific dispute, we can take a look into the Staff members to ensure our high quality standars are met and applied fairly for everyone.
If your account becomes limited you can ask Staff for reasoning. It should be reflected through warning points in your profile. You will not be able to buy listings etc. Most notably you will have your wallet access frozen until your account limitation is removed or you get banned.
If your account is banned in almost all cases you will receive nothing. All of your funds will be forfeited. Rare cases where you will be allowed to withdraw funds would be where you would prefer account ban instead of account deletion etc.
Global Vendor Rules / Terms of Service
Adhere to all global AlphaBay market rules. No exceptions on Alphabay Market.
Attempts to scam users or other vendors can result in being given warning points, account limitation or permanent ban – all on a case-by-case basis and per discretion of Staff.
NO sending spam, unwanted messages or links through Conversations (Private Messages) on the platform. To prevent abuse & spam as a new vendor you will have a limit of 1000 conversations (excluding dispute/escrow conversations or conversations started by another user).
As your account ages, you are more active and most importantly your Trust Level (TL) increases that limit will become higher. For true conversations experience, use the Forum to contact buyers/other users. Marketplace conversations are meant to be short and they self-delete if inactive.
NO feedback padding of any sorts. If our systems alert Staff such actions are being taken it can result in being given warning points, account limitation or permanent ban – all on a case-by-case basis and per discretion of Staff.
Becoming a vendor requires few easy steps and a vendor bond. Only very established vendors can request bond waiver as we do not have much trust in feedback by other marketplaces.
NO Trust/Distrust begging. Trust Level works by taking into account many factors but most importantly what is the trust factor of a user who has clicked Trust or Distrust on a given profile. As a vendor you can politely ask buyers to rate you ‘Trust’ if they feel like it. Harassing them or other users on the platform for this is NOT ALLOWED. Revenge ‘Distrust’ by one or multiple individuals against one or several individuals is also NOT ALLOWED on Alphabay Market.
Disputes require any vendor to respond within 3 days (72 hours). If vendor does not respond, the ADR will be cancelled, a live moderator will be assigned to the dispute and most likely rule in buyers favour.
NO hacking or abusing on Alphabay Market whatever the reason. Security testing, hacking, attempting to manipulate the system is NOT ALLOWED unless a permission has been obtained from Administration. We encourage bug testing and have our own bug bounty program but only to those who apply beforehand and request permission are eligble for rewards.
Dispute decisions by Staff are final. If you believe Staff has mistreated you or rulled incorrectly you can always create a ticket and encrypt your message with PGP only available to members of Administration. While we can not reverse the decision of that specific dispute, we can take a look into the Staff members to ensure our high quality standars are met and applied fairly for everyone.
If your Alphabay Market account becomes limited you can ask Staff for reasoning. It should be reflected through warning points in your profile. You will not be able to create new listings, edit listings, all your listings will be deactivated, no new orders etc. Most notably you will have your wallet access frozen until your account limitation is removed or you get banned.
If your Alphabay Market account is banned in almost all cases you will receive nothing. All of your funds will be forfeited and if there have been victims of a scam, the funds will be equally divided between them. Rare cases where you will be allowed to withdraw funds would be something like your products being inferior or you getting rejected by the market etc.
Purchasing Rules / How It Works / Safety Guidelines
All purchases you make within our marketplace are through our Escrow System. When you click ‘Confirm Purchase’ your money will go into an escrow for protection of both the buyer and the seller. Neither party can withdraw the money until the sale is finalized.
The money stays safe in escrow until you confirm you have received the goods to the advertised standard and you are satisfied with it. Once you release escrow the money goes to the seller and the sale is finalized. This means you can not dispute or get your money back once the sale is finalized.
If for some reason the goods are not satisfactory or there is another issue then you can choose to dispute.
Unlike other marketplaces we have the Automatic Dispute Resolver (ADR) system to speed-up the dispute process. When you dispute first the ADR system will be available to you to instantly work out a solution with the vendor directly, no waiting for moderators, no delays.
It is basically a proposition system between buyer and seller involving extending escrow time, full refund, percentage refund or replacement options. Both parties can accept or deny proposition(s) from the other side.
We STRONGLY RECOMMEND using ADR because it is exactly the same steps a moderator would take during a dispute without the need to babysit both parties. Even if you do not reach an agreement with the vendor, you would know where you stand or you would have tried certain options like reshipping/replacement of goods.
The system has been designed to ensure quick resolution if needed by moderator by looking at what has already happened. Our experience previously has shown us over the years that a system like ADR is the future of how marketplaces will handle their disputes.
If for some reason, at any given time ADR does not work for you and you can not reach an agreement or simply refuse to use it at all, there is always an available moderator to look into it in less than 24 hours.
Disputing a sale can damage your reputation as a buyer if your reason for disputing is not good. Some small issues can be simply reflected on the rating you give the vendor at the end of the sale. Reasons like ‘I changed my mind’, ‘I miscliked’, ‘I didn’t read listing refund policy’ are NOT ACCEPTABLE
Escrow will auto-finalize after a certain period. Please release escrow as soon as you have received and are satisfied with the goods. Always delaying until the last minute to release escrow or always leaving it up to auto-finalize will hurt your reputation as a user (Trust Level).
Sales of digital items auto-finalize in 2 days (48 hours).
Sales of physical items auto-finalize in 7 days (168 hours).
If you have not received your goods before the auto-finalize time then dispute the order and using ADR select to extend escrow time. Doing that ensures moderators do not get clogged up with disputes where basically they have to wait until the first package arrives and everyone can get fair and fast dispute resolution.
If a seller asks you to send coins outside Escrow system DO NOT SEND IT. Transactions outside of Escrow are NOT PROTECTED and it is at your own risk
If you have not received the goods or the goods are not what you expected/other issue and the seller asks you to finalize the sale regardless of what he/she is promising DO NOT FINALIZE IT. Raise a dispute and deal with it there. If you finalize a sale prematurely and get scammed for some reason you can raise a report against the vendor but your funds are not recoverable.
Sellers which have been verified with a good track record can have on rare cases Finalize Early (FE) listings. FE means you bypass escrow and you directly pay the seller. FE is given only to trusted and vetted sellers but it is entirely up to you to do your research and are completely certain you trust the seller.
If you feel the seller has scammed you and the listing is FE instead of Escrow mode then quickly create a report on the user and the listing. If the vendor decides to run off with your money and a lot of buyers have created reports, it will get flagged to ScamWatch/Staff to quickly limit sellers account and stop the scam from occuring.
We highly recommend you PGP encrypt your shipping address on your own. This small but important step can stand between you and getting a knock on the door by Law Enforcement (LE).
You can find the sellers PGP key on their profile or shown just before you purchase. We have an automatic function to encrypt address/buyer notes but it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED you PGP encrypt notes on your own.
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Save the following recovery key. Once you have submitted that you accept the rules of the website, your account will be bound to that wallet recovery key. The wallet recovery key is the only way to access and recover your funds in case of attack or raid on our servers, network, infrastructure or detention/arrest of administrators.
Several dedicated and automated systems are progressively checking if the website is down, if the servers are raided, if specific network node is offline, and other hidden factors which help us determine if everything is alright and not tampered with in any way (from system files, to disk cloning, to USB injection attempts, to network sniffers, even routing attacks). We have taken many months to build and perfect the system (AlphaGuard) as well as beta test it and we are very proud of our achievement. All requests and queries are done in anonymous and decentralized way with a stealthy, custom and multiple-algorithm-changing approaches to avoid detection or being used against us in future in some form. We have additional systems to monitor the systems which monitor the websites which use totally different methods to check it.
Question: Why do you need as user wallet recovery key?
Answer: Let us take the theoretical scenario if any our systems detect an anomaly. Our systems will go into lockdown mode. Lockdown mode has to be disabled by administrators manually within 72 hours otherwise the systems launch the wallet recovery mode. Through different channels on the Internet will be posted the onion and/or i2p addresses of the withdraw pages.
The withdraw pages are standalone and require 3 pieces of identification to allow withdraw of the funds: username, password, wallet recovery key. You CAN NOT do anything without having all 3 elements. After you have entered your information you will be granted with a field for your public or internal XMR address which you must fulfill. You CAN NOT choose to withdraw small pieces of your wallet, the wallet does not give that option or specify how much you want to withdraw. You WITHDRAW ALL FUNDS AT ONCE NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SMALL THE AMOUNT IS.
Several weeks after withdraw mode has been running (we are not specifying for security reasons but it is more than 2 and less than 8), the self-destruct mode will kick-in which will ERASE ALL DATABASES, FILES, SYSTEMS AUTOMATICALLY. Once completed that will be the end of it. No way to recover anything ever again, not for customers, not for us, not for Law Enforcement (LE).
We take our and the security of our customers as top priority and we will not allow any kind of attacks to be successful in penetrating our defense layers. We are prepared with automated and tested systems alongside 24/7/365 administration/security to respond and react to any type of breach or even anomaly in set of operations.
NOTICE: In the theoretical situation which we described above if the password you are entering is not working, a very likely solution will be that you changed your password before we made a backup or the system can not reach one of the latest backups so it reverts to an older one. Ensure you save at least your previous password to avoid such scenario. All passwords are hashed in accordance to security language best practices and techniques, we rely on proven and tested methods plus crypto and do not roll our own mechanisms for obvious reasons.
DO NOT lose the key above or you will NEVER BE ABLE TO ACCESS YOUR FUNDS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. NEVER EVER disclose your wallet recovery not to other users, not to even staff or administrators. The key is for your eyes only.
Question: Why do you need account recovery phrase?
Answer: The account recovery phrase is used to recover/reset your password. It is used in case forgot your password and you need to proof account ownership. Accounts which have PGP 2-FA (two-factor authentication) enabled will only be able to recover account by accessing their PGP key and decrypting a message to prove they are indeed the owner.
Your account recovery phrase on Alphabay Market is:
DO NOT lose the phrase above or you will NEVER BE ABLE TO ACCESS YOUR ACCOUNT AGAIN. That phrase is the only way to reset your password if you do not have PGP 2-FA enabled. We STRONGLY RECOMMEND enabling PGP 2-FA (two-factor authentication) to ensure highest level of security.
If you DO NOT agree to these rules CLOSE THIS PAGE AND LEAVE THIS WEBSITE. You CAN accept the rules and disagree with them at the same time BUT you MUST FOLLOW THE RULES AT ALL TIMES NO EXCEPTIONS regardless of how you feel about them. Any time you feel the rules are not fair you can either engage in constructive conversation with community members and staff or LEAVE THIS WEBSITE if no change is possible at that time.
The rules/terms of service are available at any time by adding to the URL /rules once authenticated. There is a link in My Cabinet too under Misc / Other section.
By clicking the button below you acknowledge that breaking any of the aforementioned Global AlphaBay Rules/Terms of Service WILL RESULT IN A PERMANENT BAN WITHOUT NOTIFICATION.
Mega Darknet Market is a new market developed in Russia. Mega Darknet Market currently supports multiple languages and does not require vendor bonds when applying for a vendor account or an invite to register to the Mega darknet market. Mega Darknet market supports 2FA, Pgp encryption, and accepts multiple cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Monero.
Incognito Market is a simultaneously secure and simple to use darkweb market. Incognito market was built to remove the danger of buying drugs on the streets.
Incognito Market is a market built to make the danger of buying drugs on the streets almost non-existent. To build a safer market for our users, we implement these rules. Anyone found breaking these rules will be penalized according to moderators’ discretion, usually involving a ban and blacklisting from the market. The allowed products on this market are mainstream narcotics of the Stimulant, Psychedelic, Dissociative, Benzodiazepine, Research Chemical, Entactogen, Opioid, or Cannabinoid classes, as well as alcohol and tobacco products, and assorted paraphernalia for growing, synthesis, manufacture, consumption, or similar activity related to these substances.
1: No sale or offer of gore or pornographic materials. In this context, “gore” is defined as any media (be it picture, video, or other, electronic or physical) that involves the abuse or harm of any person or animal, whether living or dead, and “pornographic materials” is identified as any media (be it picture, video or other, electronic or physical) designed to be sexually appealing to a certain group. The ban on pornography also includes child, animal, or harm-based media.
2: No sale or offer of weaponry, arms, or toxic/explosive materials and substances, including but not limited to:
– Guns (including handguns, rifles and shotguns), even if for decorative or collecting purposes or for the purposes of hunting animals or self-defence. Ammunition and add-ons for firearms (including rifle scops, laser pointers, or modifications) are also banned.
– Bladed weapons (including machetes, swords, axes, bayonets, knives, daggers or improvised bladed weapons), even if for decorative or collecting purposes or for the purposes of hunting animals or self-defence.
– Explosives (including incendiary devices, grenades, bombs, land mines, pipe bombs, car bombs, and IEDs).
– Any chemical that has poisonous, irritant or solely harmful capabilities (such as, but not limited to, pepper spray/Mace, chlorine and similar gases and chemicals, or any poisonous compound such as ricin or cyanide).
– Non-lethal but still harmful weapons such as police batons, Tasers/stun guns, or clubs.
– Apparel such as bulletproof or stab-proof vests, riot gear, helmets, gas masks, ammo belts and pouches, bulletproof material,
– Information about the synthesis of banned chemicals and substances, or information about, blueprints for, or materials for the creation of any of the above banned items and substances is also banned.
3: No sale of malware or fraud methods or items. Fraud and malware as a whole is disallowed on this market. The term “fraud” is also used here to encompass counterfeit money or items, fake IDs/passports/driver’s licences, or the sale of items gained via carding or similar fraudulent methods.
4: We disallow any sale of fentanyl or its analogues and related chemicals, including carfentanyl or products containing fentanyl or carfentanyl. Any vendor found to be selling products containing fentanyl or carfentanyl under a different name to circumvent this rule will be promptly banned.
5: No sale of fake, underdosed, dishonestly labelled, inactive, dangerous, or low-quality product.
6: No sale of live or dead animals, in whole or in part, including both regular pets or exotic animals. This includes ivory, bone, teeth, fur, feathers, skin, claws, organs, or bodily fluids. This rule also encompasses the sale of living or dead humans or of human parts, including bones, teeth, hair, skin, organs, bodily fluids, for any reason. This is not a market for human trafficking or buying tiger-fur rugs.
7: No advertising or sale of services related to harm of another human being or animal, whether real or fake. This includes advertising or selling media of harm or abuse (see rule #1), hitman services, red rooms, torture services, mental, physical or emotional harm, stalking, etc.
8: No doxxing, extortion or blackmail. Anybody, whether vendor, buyer or other, found to be engaging in this practice will be banned immediately.
9: No scamming, whether by vendor or buyer. Our team takes this very seriously, and perpetrators will be banned.
10: No directing buyers away from the market to direct deals or other markets in their public profile. Also, vendors found to be directing buyers away from the market escrow to scam via direct deal or other method will be banned.
11: No phishing or impersonation of staff, vendors or buyers on the market to confuse, trick or steal from any users of this market.
12: No malformed inbound or outbound crypto transactions whether intentional or unintentional.
13: No spamming, including but not restricting to the following functionalities: messaging, ordering, listing and support.
14: Incognito market team reserves the right to modify these terms.
Knowledge Base
Getting Started on Incognito market
How do I sign up?
Click “Register Now” to go to the sign up page. There, you need to select your username and password, you’ll be required to re-enter your password in case of typos. After filling out the captcha field, hit “Register”.
If everything was done correctly it’ll take you a page displaying your unique secret word and your mnemonic key/phrase, please save them securely. Your account secret will be displayed to you along with your mnemonic if your signup is successful.
How do I sign in?
Buyer/Vendor: Enter your username, secret word generated on registration, and your password. Do the captcha then hit “Login”.
Employee: Enter the vendor’s username and the token given to you from the vendor. Do the captcha then hit “Login”.Deposits
How do I deposit funds?
Click the coin icon on Incognito Market the right side of the navbar, a popup will appear. Select “Deposit” to go to the deposit page. Click “Request New Address” to generate deposit addresses. Note that you should always PGP-verify your mirror to ensure you are not on a phishing site. You have six hours to confirm your funds on the blockchain network.
How long do I have to wait until the deposited funds appear on the market wallet?
We require one confirmation for Bitcoin and two confirmations for Monero on the blockchain network. Your balance will be credited within twenty minutes after the criteria is met.
Why hasn’t my balance been updated?
There are three possibilities for this. First is that the address you deposited to either has a typo or is not generated by us. Second is that the transaction has not been broadcasted or confirmed yet. The last possibility is that the confirmations failed to be done within the six hour limit as specified on the deposit page.
What will happen if I send multiple deposits?
All deposits that are received by the deposit address within the time limit will be added to your balance.Withdrawals
How do I withdraw funds?
Click the coin icon on the right side of the incognito market navbar, a popup will appear. Select “Withdraw” to go to the withdrawal page. Click “New Withdrawal” to start a new withdrawal. Select the withdrawal currency and amount then click “Withdraw” to proceed.
What are the withdrawal limits on incognito market?
There is a minimum withdrawal amount of 0.001BTC for Bitcoin and 0.0002XMR for Monero to prevent dust withdrawals on incognito market.
Why can I only withdraw once per hour?
This limit is in place to prevent load or deanonymization attacks on our crypto servers.
What are the withdrawal fees?
We do not charge withdrawal fees, only blockchain transaction fees are deducted. For Bitcoin, the transactions’ confirmation targets are set at two blocks. For Monero, we use a flat fee of 0.0001XMR incognito market.
How long do I have to wait until the withdrawals are processed?
Withdrawals are usually processed within twenty minutes by our systems on incognito market.
What does “analyze receiving address” do?
This queues the receiving address for a fund cleaness check on our blockchain analysis service: Antinalysis.Listings
How does the “random” option in listings and vendor list work?
A random seed is generated every time you sign in, and stays with you for the session until you sign out. The reason for this is that each listing gets a chance to be at the top of the list while not messing up the pagination.
What does “Finalize Early” or “FE” marked on listings mean?
This means that the vendor has good vendor history and is granted a privilege that allows their revenues to skip the escrow process. These orders are finalized automatically after the vendor marks the order as shipped. Note that FE deprives the buyer the chance of disputes, so please purchase at your own risk.
What does “AF Time” on the listings mean?
Discussed in detail in the Orders section below.
What does “Fent-Free” banner mean?
Fent-free listings mean that the vendor uploaded a photo containing a part of the item, a handwritten timestamp, and a negative fent strip in one of the listing image slots. If a listing is labelled “Fent-Free” but does not include an image as mentioned, please report it to us via ticket immediately.Checkout incognito market
How do I checkout an item?
On the individual item pages, fill in the quantity, select the currency and shippin options, and click “Checkout Now”. You will be redirected to a new page with the listing and order summary. Please fill out your shipping information and the captcha. Click “Confirm Checkout” to proceed.
What do the two payment options mean?
Deduct from incognito Market Balance: Funds will be deducted from your onsite wallet balance immediately.
Lock Order & Deposit: The order will be marked as “Unpaid” and will be available at the same total price for two hours to allow the buyer to deposit the exact amount of crypto onto the site.
Should I use the autoencrypt functionality?
No you should always manually encrypt your shipping information manually before submitting them. Auto-encryption is only there as a failsafe in case you forgot to encrypt by accident.
How do I checkout a dead drop order?
Simply send the longtitude and latitude of the reference point and the radius to the vendor. The vendor will select and send a coordinate within the range, along with an instruction on how to retrieve the item after the item is marked as Shipped.Orders
What are the order statuses and what do they mean?
Unpaid: The order on incognito market is locked and will be available for two hours after being created.
Pending: Order on incognito market is submitted successfully, but there’s no action on the vendor’s side yet. Orders in this status can be cancelled by the buyer for a full refund without a dispute.
Accepted: The vendor acknowledges the order and chooses to accept the order. Vendors most likely are getting your product ready and wrapped up before shipping at this point. Starting from this status, orders require a dispute to be refunded.
Shipped: The vendor marks this order as shipped. The order funds enter escrow, and the AF timer starts counting down when the status changes to this. Note that FE orders do not have this status since the escrow process is skipped.
Refunded: The order is terminated with the funds returned to the buyer. This can be done either by the vendor or by the moderators.
Auto-Finalized: The order is fulfilled with the funds finalized automatically to the vendor due to the AF timer exceeds.
Finalized Early: The order is a FE order and the vendor has marked the order as shipped. Funds are finalized to the vendor.
Finalized: Buyer receives the order, found no problems and releases the escrow funds to the vendor.
What is the auto-finalizing timeout or “AF Time”?
It is the timeout until the escrowed funds are released after the vendor marks the order as shipped. The timeout is between six and twenty-four days, which is set by the vendor per listing.Disputes
How do I open a dispute?
Click the “Dispute” button on the order you wish to open a dispute on. A threeway chat betweem the vendor, buyer and moderators will be opened.
What are the possible outcomes of a dispute?
The order might get unfrozen, refunded, or have it’s AF timer extended by a week.Apply Vending
How do I apply to be a vendor?
Simply register an account on the market and click the “Apply Vending” button in the navbar. Select your application type and send us your application on the market. Your PGP public key fingerprint will automatically be used to fetch your vendor history. Also, please be sure to include a PGP-signed message that includes a brief introduction about yourself, either a list of your current and former markets, what you sell, or a link to your Recon page should suffice. Applications without this will be ignored.
What is the vendor bond?
Currently, there is a 300.00USD bond for new vendors on incognito market, as displayed in the application page. Established vendors can set up shop on our market for free, while new vendors are not allowed on the market until a bond is deposited to protect our users from scammers.Vendor Panel
How does the bulk listing work?
Bulk listings allow vendors to add listings with multiple pricing options for different amounts. In other words, offer discounts for larger quantities. i.e. “if ordered more than 10 units, multiply price by 70 percent” means that when the buyer orders more than 10 units, he gets 30 percent off as a discount.
What are the limitations on the images uploaded?
Only jpeg/jpg format are allowed due to limitations on our processors that strips EXIF and resamples the images for security reasons. The total upload size for each form must not exceed 5MB.
How do I set shipping options?
You can find shipping options in the settings tab, they are set on a per-vendor basis.
How can I access Incogbot on jabber?
Currently, we only provide jabber bot service to vendors. The setup and information will be in the settings panel once you are authorized. Please follow the instructions to get your jid whitelisted.
How can I generate employee tokens?
You can find the employee settings in the settings page. Please remember to press the “Update” button to save the settings.
How can I set my account to vacation mode?
You can find the vacation mode settings in the settings page. Simply flip the switch and press save.Exchange
How do I initiate an exchange?
Simply type in the amount you want to exchange and click market order, or if you want to specific a rate range, please use the limit order functionality. These should work like normal exchanges.
What are makers and takers?
Makers are liquidity providers on incognito market, aka the orders inside the liquidity pool. Takers are the users that execute/transact with the existing orders. There is a 2% fee on makers to incentivize users to reduce the total pending exchange orders.
Are there any hidden fees?
The rates are decided by the maker, we only charge a 2% maker fee, so if you market order exchanges, you can do it for free.
Topic: Top 5 darknet market list-2022 Darknet Market Links
You wish to shop in the darknet markets. However, you can’t determine which Darkweb market would be the best for you or have the things you need. This article has written about the best five darknet market sites where you might wish to go and try shopping or marketing.
We have laid out what it contains, the goods it stores, what type of currency can be used, etc. A darknet market is a business website on the dark web that uses darknets like Tor or I2P to function.
They typically operate as black marketplaces, brokering or selling transactions involving counterfeit currencies, narcotics, guns, stolen credit card information, forged papers, unlicensed medications, and other criminal things, and the sale of legitimate ds products. In other words, it serves as a haven for unlawful operations.
1. The Vice City Market
Vice City aimed to implement all of the current popular security features, such as Escrow with Multisig, wallet-free payments, and required 2-factor authentication using Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption. Unfortunately, it does not currently take Monero or any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin.
This darknet market guarantees the best user experience for both suppliers and buyers. It states that the platform’s administration is meant to collect both consumer and vendor input to create a marketplace that meets the demands of all users, regardless of role or status. Its product selection isn’t really great.
However, they chose an “all-kind of listings” marketplace, which means you may discover all forms of narcotics, counterfeit or fraudulent items, and illegal services here.
2. ASAP Market
ASAP is a general-purpose darknet market specializing in drugs of all types. You do not need to make an account to explore the market, but you must register before purchasing. With this step, everybody can roam around the virtual market and find out all the goods for sale.
The ASAP market is divided into several categories, which are
drug-related. Stimulants, cannabis and hashish, steroids, barbiturates, ecstasy, opioids, and other substances are present. The majority of the operations of this market are illegal, and anybody caught red-handed while selling or purchasing the illegal stuff will face long terms in prison.
3. WeTheNorth Market
WeTheNorthMarket is a modern Canada-only marketplace that provides escrow services and premium support. Both English and French are the market’s official languages.
The market features a forum where Canadians may debate everything Canadian. It is compatible with two cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and Monero. Support is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and throughout the year. Their values are liberty and safety.
So, if you happen to be someone who is not a Canadian, you will be denied entry to this Darkweb market.
Features include:
– Canada Only – Bilingual – BTC & XMR Support – Support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – An integrated forum for talks about things Canada
– 2FA Authorization
– There is no multi-signature and no javascript.
4. Archetyp Market
Archetyp Market is a market that has been recently launched and is newer than the other darknet markets that we have discussed so far. It focuses solely on drugs and operates only in Europe.
So, if you happen to be from any other country, for example, the U.S or Canada, or any Asian country, you will not be allowed entry to this market. Narcotics, marijuana, and other drugs are all available. Archetyp offers one of the most extensive product arrays and complex search options that are typically unavailable on other sites in drug-specific marketplaces. This is one of the USPs of this market.
As a result, you may narrow your search by sorting ads by quantity to get the lowest rates per gram with a single search. You may also specify the vendor’s origin by country and the supported shipping locations.
5. Cypher Market
An example of the FE market and escrow would be the Cypher Market. It does not accept typical deposit wallets, and orders can be paid immediately from your purse without depositing the market.
Many other markets need an initial deposit to indicate your commitment to purchase. Therefore Cypher Market is appealing to individuals who wish to begin purchasing right away without depositing any money.
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Conclusion of Top 5 darknet market list-2022 Darknet Market Links
We have gone through five of the top darknet markets. We have looked at the goods they sell, modes of transaction, etc. The massive majority of businesses going on in these markets are illegal.
So, the readers who are thinking about purchasing something from these darknet markets must know that if they are apprehended while making a deal in these markets, there is a massive chance for them to end up in prison. It is not that the darknet markets do not sell legal products, but they are far few. With this we have concluded our topic Top 5 darknet market list-2022 Darknet Market Links
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