why worry about LE if you followed basic security protocol and manually encrypted your messages instead of being a dummy and using sites auto encryption?

I have always accessed tor through a VPN first before ordering anything from the deepweb. I never bought into alphabays "auto encrypt" bullshit. I manually PGP my own messages. Can someone please explain to me how i could possibly get in trouble if i had ordered something from hansa in the past month? (never actually made a purchase but i did create an account). Im no legendary computer hacker, but it seems to me if you practice basic security protocol you should be fine, unless LE has somehow developed a way to decode PGP. Just curious


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[6 Points] fu_onion:

If you didn't purchase anything, fear not.

I manually PGP my own messages

Depending on where you got the vendor key and whether the vendor has been pwned by LE and thus had their key changed without you noticing, /r/Dream_Market/comments/6osdlk/list_of_vendors_whove_had_their_public_key/dkjv3fg/ may be relevant.


[1 Points] BertrandRipleis:

I guess if LE changed the vendors PGP, that's the only way? Or busted the vendor and got him to give out addresses (assuming he kept them which of course he shouldn't)?

But yeah if you didn't order anything you're obviously fine.

Good OPSEC definitely drastically reduces your chance of getting busted but I don't think it can eliminate it completely.

Edit: Does anyone know if any vendors or buyers have been successfully prosecuted WITHOUT being found in possession? I know admins have of course.


[1 Points] EnigmaMarket:

Probably nothing will happen to you unless they flip your vendor and get their key.


[1 Points] Morph96070:

Very simply, just because you followed perfect opsec doesn't mean that your vendor did, or that every other person that vendor communicated with did. If someone did use auto-encryption, and that encryption was broken, then they potentially have a direct line to the vendor, who may have broken opsec and stored customer information.

It's like unprotected sex with a hooker, you may be clean but you're also having sex with every other customer.