You guys don't know the actual story and this is a thread exclusive...
t0mcheck is actually the bad guy here he is a by far one of the biggest black hat players in the game and he has top 5 bitcoin out of the black hat scene out there. His biggest and most irresistible targets on the internet are BY far the DNM scene.
Easiest money in the universe for anyone in the security world.
Anyways, t0mcheck is playing the 'good guy' here and is 'trying to help improve the security of the DNM markets'. That could be further from the truth. People are feeding him extremely sensitive information, and with that he is rooting DNM markets, taking their money, and shutting them down. I refuse to mention any of the other markets he took down but HE HAS done it before. You may think that some markets 'exit scam' but in fact an external entity has taken them out.
He is playing the good boy card by posting vulns on reddit so it looks like he is doing DNM users a favor. The kid knows what he is doing!
Heed my warning only the best hackers in the world would run this game and t0mcheck is a master social engineer.
edit: a few things - https://www.reddit.com/user/t0mcheck he deleted most of his search history an hour after this post presumably specifically for this post
At this place point, who cares? Look at us for fuck sake. The uncertainty and lack of trust and really lack of community has allowed LE to break us. No one knows what the fuck is going on; markets are getting busted or disappearing or getting owned or being exposed; vendors are scamming to recoup losses from AB/Hansa; PGP keys are changing without warning; we got subterfuge and disinformation out the ass; buyers are scared of either getting busted in a lot of or honey or just getting burned; we have vigilantes pen testing markets for the safety of the community OR we have terrorist conmen disrupting everything for their own benefit OR we have both.
I don't have the answers or solutions but I am also not giving up. Idk, I guess it is just frustration being vented. Shit went from being so simple (and taken for granted, to speak for myself) to a complete and utter nightmare. The more homework I do trying figure the next moves, the fucking further away I become from the truth it feels like.