GPG isn't going to help you much when a firefox vulnerability is exploited and you are rooted. Then they will just steal your private key or spy on your plaintexts. We were using pecunix and liberty reserve with exchanger chaining and anonymous ATM cards / fake ID wires for cashing in/out drug money long before Bitcoin + financial mixes were the standard, or even around. Eventually the online free market community will be highly redundant and fully decentralized. Having centralized targets like SR and BMR is a bad idea that needs to be fixed. Sooner or later it will be. e a Well the US government would have absolutely no problem pwning the shit out of SR if they put their military and intelligence agencies on it. But the feds are not so l33t. True but then again you are paying for your own enslavement thanks to taxation. These projects are required, and they are slowly attracting attention from people who can make them a reality. Using hacked or open WiFi in addition to Tor is probably a good idea for vendors. Customers probably don't need to be doing this. Even if you are behind 9,000 proxies you will be pwnt if the attacker can passively watch you at your ISP and passively or actively watch your traffic arrive at its destination. Traffic confirmation for the win. Well first they use intelligence (this person uses Tor and lives within twenty miles of where a known vendor shipped product from. Only ten other people in this radius use Tor) to narrow in on evidence (let's inspect these ten peoples mail extra close looking for drugs). They don't ask for an arrest warrant until they have enough evidence. Confusing evidence with intelligence is common and dangerous. Yeah hacking is scary because it can be used to go around encryption and anonymity systems. And it is very difficult to protect from. And even moderately protecting from it requires a lot of technical know how and a lot of time into system configuration. Although just using Linux or BSD and the tor browser bundle will put you significantly ahead of the bell curve. Isn't that for getting a lot of bridges to the Tor network? Not sure. It is probably a lot easier to bust buyers than sellers, but most sellers are putting way too much faith in Tor keeping them anonymous without understanding the limitations of the Tor network. The most dangerous thing they are not understanding is that Tor doesn't hide the fact that you use Tor unless you use a bridge, and the postal network doesn't hide the rough location a package was sent from. When these two data bits are combined vendors may be in serious trouble (who all uses Tor and lives within X radius of where this package was shipped from? One of them is probably the vendor. And there are not that many of them.) It is in LE interests to do whatever makes them money and justifies their expanding budgets It amazes me that people see small time drug dealers being caught with 10k of drugs and called multi million dollar drug traffickers, but they still think LE wont do the same shit to them when their small order is intercepted. LE lie. And the laws on the books are much much harsher than many people here seem to realize. Plus drugs in mail is always a federal offense.