Opsec is incredibly difficult to get correct - especially in the long term. Many of the people who need to be getting it correct do not and the only reason they

Opsec is incredibly difficult to get correct - especially in the long term. Many of the people who need to be getting it correct do not and the only reason they are not in front of a judge or serving time is simply because their government hasn't given a shit to so much as glance their way. Because if their government actually gave a crap to investigate they'd be found almost instantly. From doing stupid things like sharing photos of their pets to more mundane things like having very obvious hours of activity and using vocabulary that varies spelling regionally (eg: how you spell color/colour suddenly matters) or even worse using regional slang like a bunch of Australian slang. If you want to be a darknet drug lord my advice is of a different flavor: Don't let yourself become too big. Once a (or multiple) governments are after you it is very likely only a matter of time before you get caught. Not because the government is particularly good at tracking people down or somehow nearly omniscient but simply because you likely had or have terrible opsec and finding you is more trivial than you've led yourself to believe. If you believe they are already looking for you it's time to abandon everything and disappear. Live your life like it never happened and whatever you do don't pass on the torch. Let your work die and be buried and someone else build on top of the grave.