I have never tumbled my coins. I just looked into Helix light and the page is down. Seems simple enough to protect yourself. Since I have never tumbled b4 on prior purchases, I gotta admit, I just got a bit paranoid. Ill look around for tumblers or try Helix light later and see if the site is up.
I'm not sure who our LE pals are, but assume they are conducting btc exchanges poorly.
The bootable tails devices you sell sound neat (after I googled it) but, I would not know how to do it. I'm honestly trying to stay away from TOR cause I hear it draws attention to ones self.
TOR is a blessing and a curse - Its main problem, like mine, is that it is getting older. It's gotten so bad that ISPs log how much tim e you spend on a TOR circuit just in case LE asks for it - Which is the beauty of Tails, it is so proxified that the ISP never sees TOR traffic...And with some free tools like 'Change MAC Address', 'IP Hider Pro', 'CCleaner', 'Unhack Me', 'Tracks Eraser Pro', 'Windows Repair Pro (All In One)', 'Destroy Windows 10 Spying', 'Destroy Windows 10 Spying', and a cheap lUbuntu DMZ laptop between your router and the rest of your network, a Windows 8 / 10 PC can be made just as secure as a Tails boot - But who has time for all of that? I'm a big believer in taking the safest, easiest route available to me, and honestly, my tiny orders would not likely even raise an eyebrow at CBP.
BTC, on the other hand, can be tumbled, laundered, middle-manned, and then stored in offline wallets such as Armory or Electrum, on different USB sticks or Cell phones (Burner phones of course, they can be had for $100 for a model with 250 minutes of talk and data - Cheap enough to avoid a trip to the pokey). LE is still hopelessly lost with cryptocurrencies - Look what Snowden did with a Tails USB stick. I've worked with our friends in Alexandria for almost 30 years now, and there's still no appointee who takes digital crime seriously enough to do anything about it - They'd rather chase Cartels and Organized Crime.
Anyway, don't want to bore anyone - But with a few weeks of study, a few bucks spent, and careful observation of the rules of online anonymity EVERY time you connect to the 'net, You're likely as safe as you could possibly be. Add to that drops and physical security (to where you never touch the mail first), and you'd be invisible...But I don't spend THAT much time thinking about it!
NOTE FOR ADMIN AND MODS - I have a list of labor of love software I'd be happy to make available to the membership if you are amenable to it. Linux, Win, MacOS, iOS, Android, and a Smaug's vault of BTC data. Also a large cache of eBooks on how to get it all working ;-)
Regards!
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