So.... Crazy week, huh everybody? Ag is looking a bit sketchy, seems like we have a sudden influx of scammers capitalizing on the order flooding from Agoras "Up 4 days a week" operating policy. And then these controlled buys going on with Colorado and Australia... Man... Got a dude watching the street for an hour after checking the mail.
But in all seriousness, it reminds me that I need to start taking my OpSec a little more seriously. Getting comfortable makes you complacent. Thought I'd bounce a few things off of you guys and get some input:
1) Scrubbing your trail. I used to use a VM that ran Kali to use Tor. But after I got a VPN I had a hard time getting it configured on Kali, so instead of using a different build, I just got lazy and ran Tor on my desktop through my VPN. I've also been fucked up and forgot to turn off my VPN before logging onto personal accounts.
In terms of security, how exposed am I really? My VPN claims that they don't log and will shut down before handing anything over, but come on, lets be real. And as far as tracing data back to me from using Tor, how do they go about doing that. Isn't it just your IP registering as using Tor?
And lets say for arguments sake that I want to wipe my trail. Do I need to go for a full on drive wipe, or are there just specific directories I can target?
2) Cleaning house:
My place is not spic and span by any means. I really have to get my place tightened up. Scales need to get the fuck gone when I have stuff in the mail, I know that. I also have other things that would be pretty serious, and they need to go as well.
But what about my not so serious stuff?
Pot is still Schedule I, but there is never more than 1oz in the house at any point in time. Is there any way they could trump that up from a misdemeanor possession? And how about the paraphernalia? Is it time to sell the bong and switch to papers? All of my stuff is glass, so does cleaning it save my ass on a technicality?
Oh and bootlegs. How much worry do I have with that? I can get the hard drives out of the house but I'm not sure if thats going too far...
3) Customs and controlled buys.
So my only experience with ordering anything from Canada has been seeds, back before DNMs. I never had any problems with getting them, and the only stories I ever heard about were people getting letters saying that customs seized their stuff. Never heard of anyone getting a knock on the door over some seeds. But what if its something other than seeds?
If they find a small amount of a controlled substance do they do the same thing or do they set up a CD?
I'm probably just being over-paranoid, I am so small time I probably don't even register. But I rely a little too much on the idea that the cost-benefit of coming after me isn't worth it. Gotta tighten up. Thanks if you made it this far
(PS. No meth, just know that someone, somewhere is after me.)
Just FE and you'll be fine