OK, so let's say you aren't using tails and you are a personal use buyer. Shit goes down for some reason and the local cops confiscate your computer. We can assume they aren't going to bring in NSA-level forensics for a small-time case. Maybe they just use the local PD computer guy.
What could they really find?
First of all, I don't think they can compel you to give up your password because of the fifth amendment. If you have your disk encrypted through bitlocker or something they won't be able to get to anything. But let's assume that is not the case and they can get in and see all your stuff.
- ToR browser doesn't retain (AFAIK) history, so that is no help
- Maybe they could look at your electrum history, assuming they knew what that was. In that case, they would have to know market addresses to tie it to anything
- They could look at GPG and see the names of some dealers, assuming they knew they were dealers. But that is just a keyring and not evidence of anything in particular
- Assuming you aren't creating a diary like ross, so you have no literal transaction record on your computer
- Assuming you don't talk about drugs over email or Facebook, so they can't get anything from that
What am I missing here? I'm not trying to say people shouldn't have computer OPSEC - they should, and it is really easy. I'm just trying to understand what evidence could potentially be on someone's computer.
a folder with about 20,000 pepe pictures.