I'm disappointed I missed the thread, I would have liked to read what people were posting. And to echo doublemint's question: People have actually been arrested from ordering online? This is the first I have heard of it and if true I am disappointed in the mod who deleted the thread...this is the kind of stuff that needs to be discussed, isn't that why we have a 'Security' board?
Well I never though nobody was arrested but I figured if you took the right precautions, no. I would love to learn from others mistakes, I think that it's awful that the moderators are censoring things just to keep profits up.
If they actually did censor it.
Likely thousands of people have been arrested for buying drugs on the internet, I know of a little over a dozen cases of people I know/knew personally. Entire drug forums have been brought down in federal operations, for example in Operation Raw Deal the DEA compromised the poorly implemented encryption system of Hushmail and harvested addresses of vendors and customers, then raided several dozen people. There was also Operation Web Tryp which targeted research chemical vendors and some customers were visited by feds but I don't think any were charged. Then there was DZF which was an FBI operated sting forum. Then there are several cases of individual vendors and customers being arrested after interceptions / being snitched on by competition etc. Many of these cases have information on them which is useful for learning from the mistakes of others. Not to mention there is a wealth of intelligence to be gathered from law enforcement documents and other things.
Keep in mind that even though I know personally over a dozen people who have been arrested for drug charges linked to the internet, that I have been involved with groups that buy/sell drugs on the internet for about a decade now. There are many many more cases of people being arrested for getting drugs in the mail without a clear link to the internet, statistics show that every year the USPI arrests around two thousand people for getting drugs in the mail (if we had an intelligence forum I would dump a few dozen USPI documents with these sorts of statistics and case studies in them). This does not include people who are arrested by the DEA or ICE. Usually these are larger orders, but many have been arrested for personal use orders also. Of course you want to learn from others mistakes, that is why almost every single forum has an intelligence or at least news section for the gathering and analysis of this sort of information (of course most forums are community oriented and not aimed at making a profit for anyone in particular). I find it very strange that when I say the only reason SR wouldn't have such a subforum is because they are worried it will scare people away from using SR and hurt their profit margins, that the entire thread almost instantly vanishes without a single reason being given. I also can not seem to get any response about adding an intelligence sub forum no matter how many times I mention it. It would be a shame if profit is more important than security, let alone free speech. I will still keep my hopes up that it was merely moved to a mod only section, but honestly if the mods here are going to delete my security posts (and the entire threads that they are made in) when people being secure is counter to SR making money, I will not be sticking around here for much longer.
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They have full time computer forensic teams just for situations like this. They are paid to do nothing but stuff like this. Hackers, not so much... don't be silly.