Most of your questions are answered down in the informative notice section down at the very bottom of most all pages here; "security" is the responsibilty of the visitor - no website can guarantee 100% "security" ... any site that does is naive or outright lying.

Speaking of HC ... it's rebranded, improved, and back on-line !!

Their new home page ...
http://www.medicalgarden.org/

The former HC forums work again!
http://www.gardenscure.com/420/index.php

Many outspoken activists, including myself, helped pave the way for HC's return.

The more information websites out there, the better

Enjoy http://cann.com ... and also be sure to check out http://baked.com too ... we are working to add more server capacity (taking longer than I'd like due to money issues; we need more advertisers) and more features, etc.

Ron