Quote from: LouisCyphre on September 03, 2012, 04:12 pmI've now made the leap to becoming an SR vendor. I'm not selling drugs, though, I'm selling software designed to help other vendors. Specifically to help them process orders and decrypt multiple encrypted addresses in order to do that.Which means that those vendors processing larger numbers of orders will no longer have to deal with that sinking feeling when they see a large number of encrypted orders.Let me get this straight.An anonymous forum poster has just offered you the opportunity to download and execute some software. This software is closed source, uses a programming language which can communicate with the OS and Networks, and it is specifically targeted at the vendors of illegal drugs on an anonymous network.Is this some kind of joke?*If* it were open source, *if* it were capable of being audited by other programmers, *if* we could be sure the code wouldn't upload as X to the first few downloaders and Y or Z to the next people who download it, then yeah, offering software services on SR of this nature might just work. Of course, it's still strange to make *sales* of software for *vendors* for economic reasons. I mean there is no market even if every vendor bought the software. He could counter by arguing he is being altruistic in trying to aid SR for philosophical reasons (hence the new logo/avatar), but if that was the case the code would be open source and capable of being audited by others, possibly with a anonymous bitcoin 'tip jar' available.But LouisCyphre *already* knows this. He has to. Nobody could be involved in IT security at any level and not know this. That means LouisCyphre is almost certainly a LE agent who has social engineered his way into SR's community with the hope that doing so will aid the delivery of a deanonymizing software exploit.There are only two options. Either Cyphre has done something incredibly naive due to blindsight/having no money, or he is a LE agent.Louis does not strike me as naive. Discuss.A final note to Louis. The platypus is a friendly, cute, comfort loving aquatic mammal, but as you recently noted, they also have poisoned spurs to defend their territory.