Also I still have not fully ruled out the possibility that SR is run by a federal agency for the purposes of intelligence gathering, however I am leaning against this idea because of the technologies used and the techniques suggested. As long as SR allows Tor and GPG and Bitcoin I think it is trust worthy, although to be fair almost all of the users here are using bitcoin incorrectly and can probably be deanonymized by financial network analysis. DEA might have realized that more people would use bitcoin incorrectly than correctly. However security is in the hands of the user no matter what. It is also possible the FBI or another agency found a zero day exploit in Tor or some other program and decided to launch a massive intelligence gathering operation against the drug using and dealing community (ability to identify 100k drug users and dealers around the world would be a world record setting law enforcement intelligence operation...people would be put in the law enforcement hall of fame). I know of one Tor zero day vulnerability and there is some research team that is claiming to have another although I think they have made extremely overstated claims in the past and are not being taken very seriously as they have not yet disclosed it in technical detail. I don't think LE are smart enough to do these things though, although users on SR really need to start anonymizing their bitcoins and not by using SR's mix either.