Or that people continue to try and do business on it?
Everybody who's ever touched this RPG with a 10 foot pole in the last 3 years knows the situation right now and knows the obvious, logical, sane response. Not necessarily the BELIZE response, but definitely SOMETHING.
Pull up a chair, youngsters, and hear a metaphorical tale... a tale about the King of the Darkwebs.
You're King of the Darkwebs. You live in the mighty unassailable Tower of Tor. Despite Darkwebz being a lawless and occasionally dangerous land, everybody gets along relatively okay. Then, one day, you receive word from a breathless courier that the enemy has invaded suddenly, with great planning and subterfuge, and your two biggest, richest castles have already fallen to their lightning assault. Large numbers of your loyal subjects are believed to have been captured and thousands more have been driven into the wilderness with the tracking dogs hot on their heels.
The kingdom descends into chaos. Confused, contradictory messages arrive every few minutes, as the kingdom's wisest remaining luminaries do their best to calm the ever-increasing crowds of panicked refugees. It doesn't work very well, because not even they have any idea what's really going on.
In the midst of this, you find out your third biggest castle (now the biggest target) has gone dark. The Duke who runs the place (and all his staff) refuse to reply to your increasingly strident demands for explanation; nobody knows who's in control of the place, but the merchants and villagers continue to come and go freely, and nobody's even bothered to pull up the damn drawbridge and put out a little sign saying "Closed due to invasion - please come back next week".
Either the Duke of Dream is the greediest, stupidest bastard ever to live, or he's directly under the control of the enemy.
I am sorry, but even if I knew the owners of Dream had their balls in a LE vise, I wouldn't stop conducting limited business through there based on the current facts.
If LE had access to Dream a month ago, as with Hansa, what would that mean for me? They could collect metadata like login times and my password specifically for Dream, and they could watch some bitcoins move around in a way that does not connect to me. They also find a bunch of PGP messages. None of this concerns me. There hasn't been a bust of anyone so far that hasn't made an OPSEC error as far as we know.
The biggest risk from Dream is that they may get busted/exit scam, and that you lose some coin. That would suck, and I won't deny that it would be number one on my list of "next markets to go dark", but still, all business conducted over DNMs should be done AS THOUGH LE ALREADY DOES HAVE CONTROL OF THE SITE. THe lessons learned so far from the people that have been burned by this whole mess:
1) Encrypt shit yo' self
2) Use unique passwords for every site
3) If using bitcoin, tumble yo shit/don't contaminate any wallets/tx chains with anything leading to your IRL persona
4) Do not click/copy any phising links
5) Never allow javascript to run on a TOR site
6) Keep a local copy of your vendor's PGP key, as it could get swapped out and cause you to have communication directly with LE/scammers.
Between these tips and the general OPSEC rules already posted in this sub, I can't seem to see what the big fuss is about, other than LE scare tactics are working.
Edit: As suggested by a couple smart folks below, I added number six. And P.S.: I don't mean to sound arrogant about my safety or dismissive of the events that have cost us all a lot lately, I am just not going to bow to scare tactics. What these developments do for me is to remind me of how fucking dangerous it is to be dealing drugs right under LE's noses, and that the only thing keeping me from handcuffs is strict adherence to proper OPSEC. Stay vigilant, but don't lose your nerve.