Quote from: BlackIris on May 17, 2013, 11:28 amI must confess that the first time I've entered the SR and contacted a vendor (I entered the SR explicitly to buy the listing in there at the time) I idiotically sent him/her a clearnet e-mail as a contact.In my defense that e-mail was anyway not linked even remotely to myself but still it was a complete idiocy on my part and a bad mistake; I was searching around for something specific and when I found the listing I just contacted the vendor without looking first at these forums or the wiki or informing myself etc. and hence committing a grave mistake.I have no problems admitting my mistake and from that time I've read everything about security here and I have setup everything correctly. I think that when a vendor sees something like that s/he should inform the buyer about the risk s/he is taking and to please correct them for the good of all the community here (nobody can know about everything and everybody must start from beginning in some field).I write this so that newcomers as myself can understand from the stupid errors we commit when we are new to the system and learn how to overcome them.This is an incident where you learn from your mistakes because we do all make small slip ups from time to time (hell, I've accidentally signed off an encrypted message with my real first name once, that spooked me even though I trust the person isn't a cop given their SR reputation) and whilst we'd like it if they didn't happen, truthfully we'll never have a flawless system since we humans are the biggest security risk in the whole process. However, for vendors to be making such trivial errors is extremely concerning. I didn't even dream of becoming a vendor until I had made at least a few orders from other vendors and learned the full amount of required information on operating PGP and general tips to ensure safe vending and only after then did I open a vendor account on a fresh account. Buying with your vendors account is completely suicidal unless you know the other vendor very well and have worked with them before. The only other vendor I partially trust is one I work reshipping for and also change his bitcoins into cash.