[dublinben]

>One would assume

One would be quite foolish to assume strong OpSec from drug seekers and their enablers. We've seen case after case resulting from these busts with absolutely trivial investigations necessary to locate the defendants.

[cwkoss]

Not a /r/DarkNetMarket customer, but I read it to keep the pulse on that section of the Bitcoin economy. You're very right. Every few months someone posts a "tails is overkill, here's my (misconfigured insecure) mobile TOR setup that is just as good". I'd wager many darknetmarkets customers aren't keeping tor properly up to date either.

[vonklaus]

Right, you are certainly correct about security, I personally pay it pretty loose. As a consumer, I assume that it is possible (and even probable) i am being monitored at some points. However, the people who have the level of technology to do the monitoring are probably not the people who make arrests for $30 of narcotics.

[dublinben]

Security is hard and not fun. Especially when you're high.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

And you need only slip up once. If you were sloppy at the start and straightened up later, too bad, the feds know who you are now.

[jjulius]

Touché. I'd hope that people in that "industry" would learn from the failure(s) of their peers, but that certainly doesn't appear to be the case.