Privacy and posting

[YouGrowBoy]

Hi,

I am wondering how private/anonymous are our posts here? By posting on a site like this, are we opening ourselves up to harassment, guilt or prosecution?

I mean we are discussing illegal activities.

Any rules or guidelines for security would be helpful.

Thanks

[norkali]

A Whois search reveals that the canncom servers are based in Florida, which means that they are subject to being subpoenaed by (U.S.) law enforcement.

Think before you post. It sounds like you have already begun to grasp that concept.

[5016169]

I'm sure we are all on some list somewhere. Quick, hide under the bed!

[GoldenBoy812]

What if you post in a library?:D

[justanotherbozo]

What if you post in a library?:D

lol, i don't know about where you live but here, they make you sign in to
the library computers with your library card. which, of course, is traceable,
right back to you.

is it entirely safe to post? no

is the government monitoring all these sites looking for druggies? no

if you get busted, will they go through your PC and use these postings
against you? probably yes, if they find them

[thcbongman]

lol, i don't know about where you live but here, they make you sign in to
the library computers with your library card. which, of course, is traceable,
right back to you.

is it entirely safe to post? no

is the government monitoring all these sites looking for druggies? no

if you get busted, will they go through your PC and use these postings
against you? probably yes, if they find them

The government doesn't need to monitor this site. They can extract anything from this site if they use certain key terms. Anyone can find out who is who in the internet if someone reveals too much about themselves. To use a real example, look at what happened to psycho4bud. He revealed a little too much about himself. It allowed someone to look up personal information on him to break-in to his email account and cannabis.com account.

Index-search sites like google.com make it so easy for anyone to look for personal information on you. Searching and monitoring this site would be inefficient. You could reveal certain things about you and in turn, it could connect you to stuff not only on this site, but anywhere in the web. Everything is cross-referenced and with a little time, even a dummy could find the identities of people on the internet.

The most secure thing you can do is post as little about yourself as possible. It's hard because you think you are anonymous, but you are only anonymous as you allow yourself to be.

[Dutch Pimp]

I prefer to hide in plain sight. Fuck Big Brother....since 2006...:thumbsup:

[stinkyattic]

Guilt? I feel no guilt. Do you? lol!
Use a proxy if'n yer scrrrrd. The strict medical nature of this site is going to make us LESS of a target for LEO, but don't be stupid and link to your myspace which has your pic and addy on it, yo!

[daihashi]

Guilt? I feel no guilt. Do you? lol!
Use a proxy if'n yer scrrrrd. The strict medical nature of this site is going to make us LESS of a target for LEO, but don't be stupid and link to your myspace which has your pic and addy on it, yo!

A proxy is useless IMO.. I'll just say my line of work partially lays in security. Proxy servers are simply 1 hop away from your computer; which they can pull that information from the proxy server itself.

However what is useful in addition to a proxy server is to spoof your mac address. If your mac-address is spoofed no one can say with 100% certainty that activity actually came from YOUR specific computer, but it would still lead back to your public IP address.

In which case you would use the argument that someone must've stolen your wifi connection somehow :thumbsup:

[stinkyattic]

Not with TOR. And if you are a TOR exit node, you can give plausible deniability that any questionable traffic coming from your IP did not originate on your desk.

[daihashi]

Not with TOR. And if you are a TOR exit node, you can give plausible deniability that any questionable traffic coming from your IP did not originate on your desk.

If you are close enough to the source or destination and are capturing then TOR is useless as you can see incoming and outgoing packets at the source/destination.

Unfortunatley I've worked with the FBI on several occassions to monitor servers at Data Centers. AKA; at the destination point. The FBI does not have to inform the owner of the server they are doing this. Once they confirm what they are looking for they confiscate the server to comb through all the data.

Again; spoof your Mac address.

TOR is a good network but don't rely on it thinking you're covered 100%. Always give yourself an escape route. Altering your Mac and leaving your wifi open or with weak encryption gives you a fairly strong case.

In addition I would recommend http over ssh (a form of web tunneling); this would encrypt your outgoing packets. Which I believe TOR does anyway but I question how strong the encryption is where as Triple DES (ssh)encryption is proven.

edit: I should add for the average use... setting up an http over ssh series of servers is much harder than using the plug and play TOR; which accomplishes the same thing. My thoughts on the encryption are my own opinion and me being stuck up because of the industry I work in. For all intensive purposes it is probably just as good as HTTP over SSH, and probably better from the standpoint of user friendliness.

:thumbsup:

[seattlesmoke247]

If you're scared go to church!!

[stinkyattic]

LOL! That's EXACTLY what I was thinking when I wrote that!

[the image reaper]

I prefer to hide in plain sight. Fuck Big Brother....since 2006...:thumbsup:

I hear ya loud and clear, bro :thumbsup:

[seattlesmoke247]

I wasen't trying to offend anyone with my statement, or bring out any ill-feelings toword religion... I was practicing my karaoke.

[psychocat]

If you're scared go to church!!

Churches scare me ! :D ;) :cool:

[Baka123]

how do i remove all my posts???

[Gatekeeper777]

I dont know what the hell you people are talking about!
All the pics i post are taken from the internet and all the info was a copy and paste.
I AM A LAW ABIDING TAX PAYING SLAVE!
I dont do naughty things. Just because i visit rome doesn't make me Roman!
*WINK*

[flyingimam]

how do i remove all my posts???

tough luck!!!

I think speaking relatively, using all available tools out there like TOR, Perrguardian, etc gives just some leverage, there aint no 100% security guarantees on internet yet, and i doubt there will be such a thing for a very long time....

i mean, we hear too often that our supposedly most secure servers and networks get hacked into by a bunch of chinese;) even FBI n CIA are not too safe on internet

but, imagine this: there are far far too many things of "illegal" matter in eyes of the law going on on the www, only the very serious get a crackdown in the real world, like terrorist sites and child porn sites.

just imagine how many people do the illegal p2p activities and how many of them get busted, that is far far more serious of a crime than just "talking" about weed. In fact its considered a felony and theft (violation of copyright)

yet those sites, even some within the US and many of their users located in the US are relatively safe, big brother just does not have all that much power to take care of all of these stuff nor is it to anyones benefit to spend so much money and time to make a case which is very easily dismissable on various grounds. It will be very hard to prove u have actually done something, by only finding u practicing your right to free speech and dialog on an international online community.

and I do not think any info on this site alone constitutes issuance of a warrant for individual investigations

now, as others have said, u have many ways to increase your safety with simply not providing any identifiable info. your only identifiable info will be your ip, which again its like that on every single site on internet if someone is on to u, to get ya!

u can totally resign from internet if u feel paranoid that much, cuz u r identifable if someone really wants to do it.

its like saying u get an alarm for the house, u increase your relative safety
but if a gang is really up to doin some shit to u or your property, no alarm is going to guarantee ur safety.

look how many banks get robbed, how many people get killed/robbed in front of cameras with a ton of evidence left out, and yet how many of these criminals are just never found.

IMHO generally speaking u have less chance of getting busted by posting on this site, than by riding dirty or high out there on the streets

plus, there are programs for not too expensive of a price that will HIDE your IP and identity on internet, just do a google and u see what i mean