what are the odds off my small grow opp getting busted?

[WildFire.ca]

Just relax any body could have ordered seeds to your house... They cant kick in the door, cause you ordered seeds to a persons house you hate.

[Help_Needed]

OK, so now what do I do? The seeds I ordered from a foreign country were confiscated by someone. The envelope showed up all nicely addressed, and with a return address to a post office box in this other country. But the envelope was slit open, the contents were removed, and the envelope was stapled shut.

This hasn't happened to me - my one and only order made it through fine - but I've heard of it happening to others. It wasn't done by USPS, it was US Customs. Most likely you'll get a letter from them in the next few days indicating that they found contraband in your mail and ceased it...and that'll be the end of it.

[ismokealldaylong420]

they can and will get a warrant they got a warrant to my house for a damn grow light so you might want to watch out

[jamstigator]

The best way to hide your IP is in plain sight: you use someone else's unsecured wireless router, in an entirely different building. That's what I do. So if they wanna track me down by my IP address, that's fine, because it's actually a lawyer lady's IP address, and she does have a bad heart. If they burst into her home and it kills her, they'll be using their discretionary budget to pay off her family for *years*. Hell, even if it doesn't kill her, she'd still go into a lawsuit frenzy and take them for every dollar they have. Lawyers with unsecured routers are a stoner's best friend! She's not even the only lawyer in this neighborhood with an unsecured router either. Guy nearby is a prosecutor for the city. It'd be *hilarious* if someone burst into *his* house, because he's the guy who prosecutes possession cases.

[mfqr]

Use tor, and torbutton (for web surfing). Also, you might want to use an encrypted file system, and have thermite nearby, so you can fry your harddrive! Just kidding. Tor would be fine, as they would have a very difficult time getting your inf0z then.

In all reality, they would rather spend time trying to bust big grow ops, rather than small ones. But if they were bored, maybe they may look into you! Doubt it, though. Just make sure on the internet you are as anonymous as possible. Fake all the information you can, especially your IP address (by using proxy networks like Tor).

[Help_Needed]

The best way to hide your IP is in plain sight: you use someone else's unsecured wireless router, in an entirely different building. That's what I do.

And you really think this makes your connection secure?

No offense, man, but cops can be stupid, but they're not THAT stupid. People freeloading of an unsecured router is quite common, and you can bet you're ass that any cop involved with computer related investigation knows it.

So, Mr. Cop decides sees your pictures of your most recent grow and decides he wants to check it out. He gets your IP info and traces it back to Sarah Jones, lawyer, age 63. He realizes immediately that she doesn't fit the profile of who he's looking for. So he goes out to the building and pops open his laptop and, sure enough, there's the unsecured router. So he can easily guess that poor Ms. Jones isn't the culprit.

But here's the real kicker...

Not only does finding this unsecurred router NOT mean the end of his search, finding it has just made his job a whole lot easier. Because if the router is unsecurred, so is every transmission you're making to it. It will take him less than 60 seconds to set up a connection with your computer and start capturing everything you transmit. And no, he doesn't need a warrant to do this, because anything that crosses the open air is considered to be in the public domain.

Oh, and one last pleasant thought....freeloading of someone else's wireless router, secured or otherwise, is a federal offense. As soon as he identifies you, he's got grounds to take you in for questioning, as well as for getting a warrant to seize your computer.