Backend server information will not be revealed publicly for a myriad of reasons.However, a small team would be nice but the problem is assessing credentials then once you nail past basic principles there are several theories and schools of thought on which angle of security is the most important. A valid point raised above I am aware of is how many buyers choose not to use PGP, but this point is almost irrelavent on my side since chances are, a buyer not using PGP is probably missing a lot of other points too on their security of which I can do nothing about but the general consensus is that forum users are more secure on average than non-forum users. This tilt of more secure users on the forum means they are probably more concerned at the level of security their vendor uses and therefore this would be a more useful endeavour to them.I do talk to DPR on various matters, all of which are kept private for obvious reasons, but rest assured some of the points you've made are already being looked into and reworked to better improve the security of the site in general. Let us not forget though, at the end of the day, the biggest security problem of SilkRoad, is vendors with poor security.