Hi endorfin,Thanks for starting this thread - as you can see this is quite an active topic.I have had quite a strained discussion about using Truecrypt with another user last week.In my opinion it's a good idea to use the program as it will make it incredibly difficult to perform any data recovery on your drives if they're seized.Truecrypt is extremely easy to set up and has an excellent step by step guide to encrypting your whole operating system, creating an encrypted file container into which you can place programs like GPG or your Tor browser or even encrypting an entire USB stick.I would say that you should definitely store your Tor browser, wallet software and your GPG program (my personal favourite is GPG4USB as it's very easy to set up and use) in an encrypted volume.I think probably the easiest set up for newcomers is to encrypt a USB stick using Truecrypt as I said and install your software there. I have been considering offering ready made USB sticks for this purpose but of course if I did it for you, you wouldn't learn anything!What you will find though is that there are differing opinions on this matter. Some users for example think you should use a "Live CD" like TAILS Linux which you can burn to a DVD and run from your computer so that theoretically every time you shut down your machine any data produced by your Tor browser for instance will disappear (in practice it takes around fifteen minutes to degrade altogether, a fact which Law Enforcement have used to their advantage in the past).In my opinion, encrypting the volumes where you store your data, Torifying all your connections including that for your wallet software and using a strong GPG key to communicate via Tormail are your bare minimum. If you need any help getting set up with this, please feel free to ask.V.Quote from: endorfin on May 31, 2012, 04:23 pmWhat I hoped would come from this post was clarification on the degree of security that is reasonable for various member activities on SR.For example, and I'll refer to my experience on SR;For the first four months on SR, I only used TorBrowser. When I placed an order, I provided the seller my name and address unencrypted and I never had any problems. Then I decided it was time to learn about encryption and now I provide my personal information using GPG. At this point I feel fairly secure however I recently began reading about TrueCrypt.My point is; security is layered like an onion and a nubie can't pick up all of these security concepts and tools right away. For me, I was proud of myself just for getting Tor running and finding SR. On the forum I learned what security SR provides and discovered an ocean of stuff I've never heard of before.So please allow me to ask that, for this thread, we attempt to identify what constitutes a reasonable level of security for a nubie, a regular buyer, small seller, and medium and major sellers. Once a member identifies how they fit into the SR community they can then at least understand what their minimum reasonable security efforts should include and attempt to meet that standard.Please share your opinions as to what constitutes reasonable security for activities on SR.Thank youendorfin