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

YouGrowBoy Reviewed by YouGrowBoy on 10-02-2008. Privacy and posting 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 Rating: 5

[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?

[justanotherbozo]

What if you post in a library?

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.