Quote from: Retro242 on May 15, 2013, 04:28 pmbut that doesnt make any sense. if the said seller is a dea agent, and i give them my address encrypted, theyll just unencrypt it. no difference than them getting it through a pm. and if your referring to them getting access to pms, then if thats the case, theyd still have access to the pgp key i sent.It makes perfect sense, but you got to think it through.The majority of buyers are going to choose vendors with positive reviews. The way for a LE agent to accumulate people's addresses is:A: Bust a vendor and obtain the private key and passphrase and impersonate the vendor, but send out nothing. Soon they get bad reviews!B: Pretend to be a vendor starting out with no reviews. They can't send out product, so soon they get bad reviews!C: Pretend to be both the vendor, and lots of 'buyers' being sockpuppets. This doesn't work either. They default on real orders and get bad reviews.--The result is that LE agents aren't getting anywhere. They're spending hundreds of dollars to just get a handful of addresses of people who want some weed or E, it's a waste of time. So they decide to hack the SR server and act as a passive adversary that we call Eve. To take down the server is pointless since it's highly unlikely any SR staff would visit such a server in person or through a non anonymized connection. So they simply decide to surveillance everything, scooping up hundreds of plaintext addresses all the time, looking for patterns, prioritizing etc.Now, if you are using PGP, you don't care about Eve. If it comes to light that Eve really exists, then all the people who used SR without PGP are going to have a bit of trouble or a lot of trouble stored up for them. Undoubtedly LEO will make an example of people.So use PGP. Help other people use PGP. PGP Club is not really part of SR, but it is indispensable to its customers. Think of PGP Club as an insurance contract. A little time down now, will save you a lot of time worrying in the future.Support PGP Club!