It is JUST YOU. There has been NO BUST because of SR...NONE. In fact, the last one reported in here yesterday is great advertisement for Silk Road. And if that pot dealer would have used Silk Road they would still be in business. There was actually two Tv stations from Sacramento(could be more, I only saw two) that did an online report. The reporter for one of them does a really shitty job of reporting about the case from the unsealed court order. The other stations reporter does a better job of telling the story but still does a shitty job of reporting the facts. Here is a Clear-net link to a news story and video about it--http://www.kcra.com/news/mailorder-marijuana-postal-inspectors-link-operation-to-sac-region/-/11797728/21156348/-/nv5v6u/-/index.html The truth, as it is written in the court document that was unsealed yesterday, is that they caught the pot dealers because they were receiving large amounts of cash to a post office in Rocklin Ca and fictitious businesses in two other small towns within Sacramento California. That is how and why they got caught. Over 400 packages of money being sent to them in this small post office and to the phoney businesses. They did not get busted from sending the drugs, or dogs smelling the money or from them using btc or from them not using pgp or from the dogs smelling the weed or from them going into the post office or from them using anything that has to do with Silk Road. In fact all the things that the crazies in here love to talk about as high risk and very dangerous had nothing to do with why these people got busted. THEY GOT BUSTED BECAUSE THEY DID NOT USE SILK ROAD. PERIOD!! Even Astor would have to agree that this bust had NOTHING to do with a vendor on Silk road not using pgp or with Silk Road at all. The real problem is that people like you report in these forums about a bust and they put a title on their thread that makes it look like a SR vendor got busted yet again. When in fact it is simply not true. And NO vendor got busted. But a lot of forum members will not read the article or try and read the whole document. They will instantly just start typing a post about security on Silk Road and they will start speculating on the what if's and they will all talk as if it was a vendor that got busted. This used to happen all the time in the forums. So in fact OP there is a lot less of these reports then before ...so it is just you! I really believe that there are some members that want a vendor to get busted so they can say " See we told you". One day it could happen. But it will not be because of silk road. It will be because someone will be lazy or plain stupid and get caught. Or some girlfriend or wife will RAT them out. In fact this bust had a lot to do with a RAT. There is actually a lot of good info in the court document that was unsealed and would be a great read for any vendor or anyone that wants to know the truth about things and way's that LE catch drug dealers. This totally sucks as no matter what, I hate when someone gets busted for selling drugs. But the good news, if you want to call it that, is that when s document like this get's unsealed it is a GREAT OPPORTUNITY to learn more about LE and their practices. It is really priceless information and it is a lot better then the info some of the computer nerds talk about as facts when in fact the truth is they know nothing and are just speculating and hiding behind the ole " better safe then sorry" theory. The great news is the more times the media reports about Silk Road the more members we get! More people come here that want and need drugs that would have never found this place unless there was a news story. I know there will be some people that say "that is bad" it brings more attention from LE. That is simply not true. They already know about us and have for 2 years. So who cares about them. Getting new buyers and more GOOD vendors is a great thing for everyone. It brings in more options and that lowers prices and that makes it more competitive that in turns makes vendors work harder at being great! it is a win win. No press is bad press ... of course the crazies will disagree. But they also have 20 gallons of water and five 10oz bars of silver so that when a solar flair comes they can survive. We need more great vendors and buyers. And for stupid people, hopefully that article will scare them away. As they will misread it like most people and think that the pot dealers got busted because of Silk Road and they will believe this is a bad place to sell drugs. The one thing we do not need is bad vendors. Everyone here should read the unsealed document.