that sucks. they wouldnt do that for Rcs would they? mostly for actual scheduled drugs right? or maybe they would, but im sure they worry about other drugs more than rare psychedelics.
They'll start with scheduled drugs and get to the RCs eventually. This whole thing of being able to easily order some drugs online will end all too soon.
So do you think this could have been prevented if the now accused had been using prevention like Tor and GPG?
No, not if the vendor is the informant. It might have made things harder, but he still had to give an address for them to ship to.
If you get drugs mailed to your address with your name on it, what do you expect. IMO, the safest thing you could ever do is get a PO box with somebody elses name on it.
It was the customer who was the informant in this case, and the vendor would almost certainly not have gotten busted if he was using GPG and Tor I would say. I am not sure how they found his address to start doing surveillance on him, but I am going to take a guess and say he used Hushmail with out Tor or anon WiFi and they merely did an IP trace on him, had the undercover place an order, followed him to the post office and saw the DCN on the packs he sent out then when the informant got the packs they opened em saw it was drugs and busted the dude. The customer doesn't even need to be an informant for this situation to happen, the feds just need to find a vendors E-mail who isn't using GPG and monitor the E-mails for customers addresses and trace back the vendor who isn't using Tor and do surveillance on him. I predict this is going to start happening pretty frequently with vendors and customers who are not taking the most basic security measures. Analogs you have less to worry about but its really in the hands of fate, if they want to get you they will get you and occasionally they do get small time analog people although it isn't their #1 priority most people messing with analogs are so easy to bust they will prob eventually just say fuck it and go after a bunch of them. USE SECURITY