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wilbur
Now I might be a bit off the mark with my understanding of web protocols and if I am I 'd like to hear from you, but …
I registered at an internet site the other day and registration required stating the closest town which for me is 70K's away. As membership at the site is not wholly socially approved I gave a town about 120K's away as my address. However when I looked at my membership details I saw my address had been corrected and stated my closest town. So I take this to mean that there are programs available which can pin down your computer's whereabouts with an accuracy of at least 50K's (+30 miles).
The site referred to was a small site but with global membership. It's purpose is fairly innocuous. I assume the site runs the address-locating program to reduce hoaxing. But it occurs to me that AUTHORITY probably has address-locating programs even more sophisticated than small sites have.
This may not be a bother if you live in a big city but if you live in an area where there are few potential growers there may be a concern. It seems to me the accuracy of such address-locating programs means AUTHORITY, where I am at least, can through a simply obtained court order from a magistrate to your Server, watch a profile group of potential growers in an area then bust you without the need to embark on any complicated and lengthy, perhaps global, process of obtaining court orders that require the managers of sites like this to give up your specific details. And you might also post things like how much rain you had last week when rain only fell in a small area … or mention the colour of your soil which exists only in a small area … or stuff like that.
The good thing I take out of all this is vindication of my choice to NOT post images here of what I 'm growing. What's in a 'diary' often shows a crop worth busting. So if my fellow members can't see what I grow I don't care … because neither can anyone else!
I registered at an internet site the other day and registration required stating the closest town which for me is 70K's away. As membership at the site is not wholly socially approved I gave a town about 120K's away as my address. However when I looked at my membership details I saw my address had been corrected and stated my closest town. So I take this to mean that there are programs available which can pin down your computer's whereabouts with an accuracy of at least 50K's (+30 miles).
The site referred to was a small site but with global membership. It's purpose is fairly innocuous. I assume the site runs the address-locating program to reduce hoaxing. But it occurs to me that AUTHORITY probably has address-locating programs even more sophisticated than small sites have.
This may not be a bother if you live in a big city but if you live in an area where there are few potential growers there may be a concern. It seems to me the accuracy of such address-locating programs means AUTHORITY, where I am at least, can through a simply obtained court order from a magistrate to your Server, watch a profile group of potential growers in an area then bust you without the need to embark on any complicated and lengthy, perhaps global, process of obtaining court orders that require the managers of sites like this to give up your specific details. And you might also post things like how much rain you had last week when rain only fell in a small area … or mention the colour of your soil which exists only in a small area … or stuff like that.
The good thing I take out of all this is vindication of my choice to NOT post images here of what I 'm growing. What's in a 'diary' often shows a crop worth busting. So if my fellow members can't see what I grow I don't care … because neither can anyone else!
