TOR throwaway and modified details for obvious reasons: I may or may not have repeatedly purchased large amounts of bitcoins from a bitcoin ATM this last fall and managed a small business from that. After Onymous and a mishap where my delightful mailman delivered a huge amount of weed to the incorrect address, as well as a stern talking to from some friends who didn't want to see me go to prison, I decided to scale things back and supply only in person (goodbye 100% profits). An aside: the misdelivery was never opened and was eventually redelivered to my place after the residents noticed the address was incorrect. I wasn't moving heroin or pounds of blow, just white suburban college drugs, and every order was domestic other than one SSB speed order that never showed around the same time, but it was only a gram for my cat.
All seemed well and good on my path to being a contributing member of society being forever fucked by student loans until some weird things occurred recently. My last two round trips through US airports, three of the security checks have resulted in my laptop and phone being taken for additional hush-hush screening for an extra minute or two before I was released on my merry way. Basically, at the carry-on screening point my shit gets taken aside and an extra TSA employee comes over and they mutter to each other before releasing my stuff and nothing else is said. I know this sounds paranoid, but I had kinda thought I was in the clear and had hoped to continue using darknetmarkets on a smaller capacity for personal orders of lucy, dope, and other hard-to-acquire IRL items for little asian boys.
When I started out, I wasn't very careful with OPSEC; I always used encryption, but I ordered from at least one vendor suspected of having legal troubles (unconfirmed and at this point highly unlikely) and wasn't initially using TAILS or covering my tracks completely while moving the coins. I had a blockchain wallet I never touched outside of TOR that I sent coins to from the ATM before moving them into my market wallets, but that was about it, and I used a burner for the phone verification when purchasing, but obviously my face was on camera with the other 500 drug dealers using that machine.
It's safe to say my days of dealing are over, and I accept that. I also understand I should have been more careful with OPSEC, so there's no need to point that out, though I'm sure fuuuckckc face and the others would happily pile on for his honeypot subreddit and some sick drug karma. Should I be concerned about being monitored, or is this just typical TSA bullshit?
You bought speed for your cat?