I don't see anyone at all saying it has been compromised, seems awfully suspicious that someone says the most trusted site for links is compromised and sends his own. Only thing I've seen about it recently is that it's been under massive DDOS attacks just like empire, but wasn't even downed.
If you have a USB you can install Tails OS onto it, it's an OS that forces all traffic to go through tor and won't log anything.
It has all the tools you would need to do with PGP keys, bitcoin wallets and other stuff like that pre-installed.
If whatever you order through the dark web gets intercepted and police want to investigate you, they won't find anything because you were doing it through the OS on your USB that wipes every time you shut it down.
Oh and like I said earlier, that dreaddit bible has great info on literally everything you would need.
More info:
https://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html