Quote from: Guru on August 04, 2012, 04:03 amAnd they say the Feds have no sense of humour...GuruNone at all Agent Guru! 8)-- Agent PineActually that was a good thread, these two comments deserve to be copypasta forever:QuoteQuote from: joeblow2 on July 25, 2011, 04:26 pmImagine you decided to sell drugs on a public drug forum. You spend 8 hours a day answered pm's and packing orders. You like to get high before you go online because it makes the busy work of answering the messages seem like more fun. Time flies, you're doing great! You ship a lot of orders, your customers like the product, feedback is all positive. You start to plan your retirement to Cabo and start buying your super hot model gf jewelry so she'll be amenable to moving with you to a third world country. You do more drugs, live virtually 24/7 in the ether, shipping all day and answering messages all night. You are a budding kingpin. Little by little though, you get sloppy. You stop wearing gloves when handling product or packages. You tell a lot of your friends who come over to party how much money you are making on the Internet. You sell off your excess product to "friends of friends" who stop by occasionally. You sell your BTC to people on Ebay using your real name. You leave fingerprints, personal information, and tracks all over the Internet and real life.If you do this correctly, everyone will say "damn, he had good product, but what an idiot!".Don't get high on your own supply. Protect your precious life from your own destructive tendencies.Quote from: un1v4c222 on July 24, 2011, 01:11 pmImagine someone offered you a job buying drugs on SR and posting to the forum 8 hours a day working with their money. (and getting paid for it) This undercover agent would be highly knowledgeable about routes of administration, local trends, prices etc. They would discuss their many purchases, and give the impression they were a big fish with plenty of disposable income who wasn't too worried about losing a dollar here or there. Slowly but surely they would gain the trust of forum members through their consistent and voluminous postings. They would be confidant, sociable and act like a leading authority on drugs and their use. They would eventually gain the trust of the community, and have a rock solid reputation. Once reputation was established they would elicit certain behaviors through PM, in an effort to gain privileged information. Then a sting would go down, probably on multiple sellers simultaneously. They'd probably want to establish criminal conspiracy as well as trafficking. It's social engineering, and spys have been using it since the beginning of time.If this is done correctly, people will say "I never would have suspected it was him"Trust no one.tldr; 1. Don't get overconfident. Get proper sleep/food and strictly regulate any use of product, ideally don't take any at all.2. Trust nobody. Not even Agent Pine or DPR. Doesn't mean being unfriendly, it means use your brain.I'll add a third one: that is paralysis by being indecisive. You cannot allow FUD to get to you.I've had people send me their private keys and pass-phrases. Don't do that. Your trust should be in cryptographic strength and over nyan thousand proxies, things that can be double checked and verified to be true.