darkman [none/use name]

I have strong reasons to believe the shooter is already communicating with some people, but again even if they bring it up they're fedposting. If I posted where to find them, it would be removed for "fedposting". No investigation.... Shameful

Deranged

People who worked for him who "mutinied" have to either sign up with the Russian armed forces or move to Belarus with him. Not clear if people who worked for him and may not have participated have only those 2 options or if they can just walk away and do something else.

"well yeah that's the point"

Nothing of note nowadays. Sites still get DDOS'd but it's not nearly as bad as it was earlier this year. You can upgrade TAILS from within the live OS, as long as it's from >2021 you shouldn't run into any issues doing it that way. Can always install Tor Browser and download the latest version of it.

Good link source is dark dot fail, once you have a URL for a market, I'd find it on another link aggregator to have some level of security against phishing. Good ones are tor dot taxi, daunt dot link/Dread, Tor Times' list. As long as you can find matching URLs in a couple different places, you've done your best. Maybe all the link aggregators got hacked on the same day and you were super unlucky :'( or they were all actually operated by the Dread staff. But saving the market's PGP key today and then going back in a week on a different mirror and verifying the signature on the new mirror is an option for mitigating that.

Otherwise all the usual stuff. Only use XMR, practice good security in terms of not having it shipped to a place with tons of illegal stuff. Just in the off chance it turns into a big deal. Check Dread before ordering just in the off chance you happened to be ordering right when people noticed they were exit scamming.