We badly require a book, SR for Dummies or something.In general, there's a bizarre combination of paranoia and laxity. Too much focus on tech security and not enough on the human element.Here's a non-exhaustive list of 10 peculiar things I've seen. Check it for your sins...1. Many people are actually using the same handles or avatars on the clearweb. I couldn't believe it. Including some of the most paranoid people on here. Without using a single 'hack', I could easily ID 25% - 50% of the people on here. No, that's not me boasting, that's you being insecure.2. Too lazy to use PGP encryption.3. Mentioning they were at specific locations and dates, or worst yet, that you will be in the future.4. Using colloquial slang.5. Mentioning specific clearweb sites that they have accounts on.6. Indirectly or directly referring to the time. e.g. This afternoon I... etc7. Mentioning you're going to purchase, or have purchased, certain items from Ebay or Amazon.8. Imagining that using Tor doesn't influence how banks, exchanges, email providers and others could profile you. You use Tor to access proxies which are ideally private and located in your geographical region. Unless you think it's not weird for your bank to see you're accessing your account from Bermuda, and then Belize ten minutes later. See: "I have my rights" section below ->9. Mentioning your jobs past, present or future, and people you know.10. Mentioning any government controlled data relevant to your person. e.g. prescription drugs you've taken, when and for how long, how long you've been unemployed, your crazy bitch ex-wife, how much tax you paid, and unbelievably: that you have a criminal record etc.Some General Rules:Never, never believe that just because something is legal, that means that it can't be used against you in some way. Enough with this "I have my rights" bullshit already. It's called circumstantial evidence and prosecutors use it all the time.Many Nos make a Yes. It's a combination of both additive and subtractive knowledge that builds an investigative case. Tor allows you to give a detective the universal set of 7 billion people to extract you from. Why narrow the field?Remember Occum's Razor. The simplest model that fits the known facts is usually true. For example: some of you were proposing that SR itself was colluding with scammers. But why would they even do that when they could more easily simply embezzle all your money in the first place? Similarly, intelligence agencies like the NSA and CIA do not have mandates to find drug dealers. It's not in their jurisdiction. The local police, FBI and DEA do have such mandates and it is in their jurisdiction. Simple!If you have committed security sins, or even if you haven't, then you had better start putting down some red herrings. It's just good practice to drop the occasional white lie as a matter of principal. -- Agent SuperPine