[ConspiracyTheory] Why I no longer trust Cloud 9?

The OP of this thread, http://www.reddit.com/r/c9marketplace/comments/2lvztq/c9marketplace_take_down_info_request/, never got an answer.

tl;dr
missy76 is acting like leo by not giving us info leo already has. leo has benefits to give back all coins (since they could have total control of all addresses), especially to vendors to track them.

I could be just paranoid.


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[16 Points] None:

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[6 Points] None:

I am over C9. As a general rule, I do not go back to markets once their predecessor has been seized. I didn't use SR2, and I'm not going to use C9 again.

What really confirmed to me that it's the right choice is when Missy admitted vendor tracking information was not encrypted. I had an order that had been shipped with money in escrow and I have no way of knowing if the vendor inputted the tracking number which is now potentially in LE's hands. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty zen about the whole thing but it is a careless mistake on Missy's part to store such information in cleartext. Had defcon done exactly the same thing, he would find very little of the support Missy is receiving.

But then Missy is supposedly female, and women are inherently more trustworthy than men, right?

As for all this shit about transparency, just because something appears transparent doesn't mean that it is. I'm extremely cynical and consider this faux transparency as a brilliantly successful marketing strategy. If he was genuinely attempting to be honest, he'd have mentioned about the tracking info several days ago before /u/ciphersexual asked which would give buyers and vendors the opportunity to clean house if that's what they choose.

At the end of the day, we only have Missy's word for everything and in the anonymous environment of a DNM where people are committing multiple crimes, that isn't enough. His word, after the seizure of a server, is not enough for me to trust C9 again.

I do not know if I think the account is compromised. It's absolutely possible, but if it isn't then it is extremely irresponsible to be posting on reddit about how he's going to resurrect C9. Surely, one can not be so arrogant to assume LE are not after the person behind the server? Lying low, right now would be the smart thing to do.

After all, it is arrogance and stupidity that started this mess in the first place.


[4 Points] 0085046:

People hopping back on C9 have just as little common sense as the ones that went on SR1 after DPR's bust. SR2 was infiltrated by the feds the very moment the market re-launched. In the same manner C9 should be considered compromised and not to be trusted. But I am pretty sure nobody will care; still read a dozen OPSEC guides, complain about stealth and populate C9 again as if nothing ever happened. Marketplaces should die with their seizures to not allow feds to insert them into the community.


[2 Points] sapiophile:

I mean, or she just didn't see that thread...