CCC,
Im not paranoid, and most certainly lost out on nothing.
I didnt lose my bitcoins, I did not have any info seized in the take down.
Realistically, the writing was on the wall, the sites days were numbered no matter how
far down the darknet hole the site resided. The guy ran the site from the US, which gave the feds
all they needed to take him down. The US feds can and do take down international sites all of the time
just because they were registered with a dot com or one of the other domain extensions they claim ownership of.
Transmission, storage and domain extensions are easy targets for the feds.
Im well educated with computers, websites, programing and web security, that is why I stay away from sites like that
and try to help others see the potential and ease of getting busted.
There are too many injection points for LEO to get any information they want, it could be at the ISP office, (Which they are already doing and have been for a long time), it could be
intercepted anywhere between you and the ISP and routed directly to the police.
It could be malware injected to either the site, your pc, phone etc. It could also be in your modem or router, there are far too many variables for me to risk my freedom
by making transactions on a notorious website that is guaranteed to be watched.