Quote from: Old lady driver on October 28, 2012, 12:52 am What is the problem with using the same name for both? ;)It's a case of insurance, essentially. Let me illustrate by way of scenario: Let's assume that I use the user-id Little_Guy on Silk Road proper, and that I use the very same user-id here on the Forum. In the worst case scenario, the vendor may be an idiot and doing stuff like selling locally and attracting the attention of the neighbors who then inform the police. This is how the vendor Trojan was busted in Calgary earlier in the year. If the vendor was careless, and kept copies of customer addresses, even temporarily, and the police got their hands on these, they might be able to learn that Little_Guy is actually Jean Chretien, who lives at: Jean Chretien,123 Maple Street,Edmonton, Alberta,CanadaH0H 0H0Any defense attorney worth his salt is going to use the argument that anyone could have ordered some drugs to have sent to his client Jean Chretien. That argument completely falls apart when the police do a search on the Forums for Little_Guy and they see any number of posts describing drugs they have purchased on Silk Road from this or that vendor, talking about their quality, etc. So, in a nutshell, that is why it is a good idea to have two separate user-ids.