[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.