This thread reeks of disillusionment. Of course there is a risk you can be arrested if you do illegal things. I thought that would have been obvious to people. The best you can ever hope to do is use security to lower your risk and try to minimize your priority by limiting your impact (or increase your impact to increase your profits). This is true for anyone, IRL or on the internet. Tell me when you find an IRL dealer you can talk to over Tor and use encryption with. Also let me know when you have a massive index of reviews left on the quality of their service and products. IRL vendors tend to be much less secure, and LE could monitor their customers just as easily or plant undercovers almost as easily as online. Online LE does have a human intelligence benefit over IRL though, because they can do nym flooding attacks with single agents managing huge networks of cheap to create nyms.