[PSA/Article] Three charged in New Zealand after "operation targeting importers of internet-sourced drugs"

Article: http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/332105/trio-serious-drug-charges

New Zealand customs continues to claim victims.

No word on the quantities involved, except for "drugs believed to be worth tens of thousands of dollars".

Edit: additional news reports

http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/police-bust-dunedin-drug-ring-2015020423

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/65784334/Three-men-arrested-over-drug-importation-to-Dunedin


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[3 Points] C4000c:

looks like they should have stayed domestic. idk if there are even many nz sellers though but sucks.


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[1 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

They will have been identified in November when the SR2 server was captured. Either it didn't erase shipping details completely, or they had large orders pending unconfirmed by vendors.

After that, anything addressed to them was opened by customs.

Assuming these customers purchased regularly from a few vendors, they should have insisted the vendors keep their shipping details. Why risk your name and address on the market again and again by insisting vendors forget them so you can tell them the same info all over again next week?

If you order every week, give your details ONCE, not 52 times. Its not the vendor you need to be afraid of having your details - hes the only person you WANT to have them and shouldn't be afraid of.

In an alternate reality, their is a reddit darknetmarketplace forum where customers complain about vendors losing or forgetting their shipping details so they had to send them a second time. Its risky. Bad Opsec

You go to all this trouble, use 25 years old encryption to make sure the vendor can have your details because you want him to know them. Then you ask him not to write it down in a book so you can practice your PGP every week

You can bet that one of those weeks your marketplace will be ceased, and a pending order will have your shipping details on it. If you are a returning customer, your details should read"same as last time". No amount of computing power can crack that encryption.


[1 Points] tobyghee:

Be careful out there boys <3


[1 Points] gwern:

Followup, sentencing was 5/7 years: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/70101651/dunedin-student-jailed-for-dark-web-drug-imports