As OP hasn't replied yet, I'll take the liberty. The biggest issue is interference (jamming) by malicious actors. This is especially common in the eastern Mediterranean [1]. Earlier this year there have also been reports of interference on Finland's border with Russia [2].
Of course one could imagine other scenarios where GPS might become inaccurate or unavailable on a larger scale, such as an attack on the satellites themselves.
I'm going with that this whole thread is extremely astroturfed and that the shills are out in full force. For the sake of my own sanity. FUCK the RIAA.
The shipping industry offers a transportation service to its customers. In the bulk area, not leaving your customers to clean hundreds of containers is part of the service.
>It’s gotten to the point where I trust eBay more.
Absolutely! I recently bought a simple item, a roll of wiring loom tape. It was on Amazon and had a few reviews that stated that the received tape was old and didn't stick very well anymore.
Same item on eBay for cheaper has the seller specifically mentioning that they only sell fresh tape from the running production, not old stock. Even better, the seller specialized in these (and other) tapes.
It seems that eBay has just cultivated a much higher quality base of vendors. Many of them seem specialized.
Thank you for this valuable comment. It is highly likely that police would go for the lower hanging fruit of buyers instead of sellers in a system so opaque and decentralized. The old thinking of "what could happen, they only want the big guys anyway" should have no place in OpSec. And when information on these networks is so hard to come by to begin with, a buyer being busted is very desirable. The way I see this "evolution" of the dark markets, is that it mostly protects vendors while inconveniencing and endangering buyers.
It is common practice to let vessels drift freely if no anchorage is available (congestion, depth of water) or if there's no intention to anchor the vessel. If the orders for the vessel weren't clear, it's very much possible that it was drifting a few miles off the Chinese coast.