As you say there's no way to be certain.I work as a Paralegal though and I have to tell you this would be considered textbook entrapment. The very nature of SR means that a Law Enforcement Agent would be placing themselves in an extremely compromising position by having an account on here in the first place, even in the name of ostensibly policing the internet for illegal activity.If we ignore the first issue and assume your District Attorney's office in America, or my Crown Prosecution Service in England would overlook the issue of entrapment, there is also the issue of the burden of proof.It is indeed a crime to attempt to buy drugs but how would the Prosecution go about proving a connection between you and an attempted buyer? There is no IP address to link to you to the account you created through SR, nor the e-mail address with which it is associated. Bitcoin transactions are difficult enough to trace at the best of times and as memory serves SR uses a mixer to obfuscate the transaction history further.Even if a clear transfer of funds could be established from a particular buyer account and yours, this is a far cry from the burden of evidence necessary to lay out before a jury - in reality all they would have is your address, which could have been written by anyone with access to a phone book.I wouldn't be surprised if Police monitor SR when possible but setting themselves up as established vendors would get them nowhere.V.Quote from: Dirtyduke on March 30, 2012, 04:46 amIt's not paranoia, it's simple fact that LE has used selling drugs as a way to bust users, not just sellers. Another fact is that some of the people that are buying stuff on SR are buying large enough amounts to be reselling whatever it is they are buying on SR. At the end of the day, they can do whatever the hell they want. It may not hold up in court, but no one here wants to sit through the stress of a trial. It would only take a few busts of some of the more frequent buyers on here to start a shit load of real paranoia.