It would seem in this case the site allowed payment to be made by Paypal and Western Union which are not anonymous.They also relied on Hushmail, the defective brainchild of the great Phil Zimmerman, inventor of the original PGP software. In the nature of things Hushmail retained copies of users' private keys and in the face of legal action, they meekly handed them over.Needless to say Silk Road doesn't store your Private Keys - although I did speak to a Tor Mail user the other day who keeps a copy of his private key in his inbox and uses it to decrypt messages he's been sent using an online decryption tool in the belief this was safer.No, no, a thousand times no. Your private key never needs to leave your computer - just ask the people at the Farmer's Market if they agree :-)V. Quote from: randomOVDB#2 on May 16, 2012, 12:19 pmQuote from: dmtdoodeelsd on May 15, 2012, 04:15 amwell SR say they don't keep your details logged whether you use PGP or not (understandably), and you would have to be a shit vendor if you kept a written log of addresses (obviously this could be dont by any vendor whether you use PGP encryption or not) - so the whole thing seems to me to be alot of bother for very little added security. Yeah, we saw how trusting the board takes care of all the problems - http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=19162.msg192761#msg192761Encrypting a message takes less than 30 seconds. Additionally in regards to your "who will they go after", low-hanging fruit -> targets or goals which are easily achievable and which do not require a lot of effort AKA buyers.