• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    just acquire poison for themselves

    … which they may well do on the darknet, to some vendor who at least will keep the transaction private.

    Seriously bad OpSec just bothers me. “We sell hot sauce (and booze, ask for ‘Mr Fields’)” sort of barely worked at physical speakeasies in the 1920s. Not on the 2020’s Internet FFS.

    Reminds me of the gang bangas who hold up a liquor store… then post themselves on Facebook with the booze and money.

    I don’t want people to commit shade-tree suicide. I want social systems with mental and physical health care that people can really trust even about end-of-life decisions and that will respect rational consistent level-headed choices.

    But absent such a system or in the cases where it breaks down, there is a utility in these markets. People should at least be aware the privacy technology exists.

    • morto@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      16 hours ago

      Judging by the hints in the article, the lethal substance isn’t something that one needs to go to the darknet to find, but a quite common substance

      • HubertManne@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 hours ago

        I don’t see these hints. It says he sold other culinary things but not in a way that suggests the substance was a culinary thing or anything. Sure it gives some symptoms and sounds like a depressent of some kind.