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Browsing History Can Out You

rasputin

The Mad Monk
Veteran
That is my understanding. If ICMAG isnt resizing your images for you when you upload they still contain their original EXIF data. This can store lots of info, like camera model, etc.. but it is possible that they sometimes contain GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken from

I know from experience they aren't, or haven't been, stripping exif data from photos that don't need to be resized upon upload. I've been doing it manually. But Skip's post had me wondering so I checked a photo from a buddy who's pics are resized, his exif data is removed. Maybe I should stop resizing.

And to the OP, why is history so important? At least use a separate browser for your canna viewing and set it up appropriately. I'd recommend Tor Browser at the minimum.
 

WelderDan

Well-known member
Veteran
If you are to the point that the PO PO is digging through your computer, I'd say you are already borked
 

OLDproLg

Active member
Veteran
Just to settle you folks down a bit!!!!

Just to settle you folks down a bit!!!!

Got busted by FEDS,well state first.....

When i was busted,then US marshall told me its NOT the pics
its what i said??????....but before that the DEA agent who was
threatening to put me away for a long time=10 to 20yrs said,
dont try and fight this i can match pics to your yard.
Only after he came in WITHOUT a WARRANT!..and ran to my backyard
opened a closed gated garden an seen about 7 small 2 foot plants budded
an about 15 or 20 seedlings in a tray.....AND i watched him OPEN my studio
where there was mothers sitting at his feet............that prick got lucky.
Even he was scared i may have beaten it at the time!

One important thing is,THEY NEVER TOOK MY COMPUTOR!!!!!
Or even checked it hahahaha........but my lawyer said,and get this shit
they may be able to use the pics of the plants and add 2 and a half pounds
to each plant in the pics.........WOW and get charged for that.....
Ofcorse i was shitting BRICKS???
Maybe they didnt need my computor because they already HAD all my pics?
THe DEA came to my house with all my threads in a folder,ONLY BECAUSE
my best friends SICKO BITCH gave them my phone numbers and my HANDLE
with this site....so maybe it made me look bad,but i told the MARSHALL it was
all BULL and those pics were photoshoped!!!.....SO im not shure HOW they used
ALL MY PICS maybe to sway a judge......but THEY HAD NO WARRANT!!
So im assuming that didnt help get ANY JUDGE huh?
At the time i was being held,a judge who was conrtoling the bail stuff said,
How did they get this done their is NO signature from any judge?????????????
DIRTY COPS thats how they did any of it.
Because my plant numbers were high,over 25 he set the bail at 500.000 dollars.
Everyone in the court truned an looked at me like a kingpin or som'm inmates
were stunded......woopy i grew some little green plants,i never killed anyone.
THEY CAN do alot,but i would NOT be PARRANOID just dont take pics that can
match anything?...place a certain around a plant and take the pic=NOT showing
your outdoor yard/barn/house,excet...just a garden with nothing but plants an a bare
wall and THEY CANT DO SHIT....people steal pics all the time an clame its theirs....
Take my HUGE pile of weed that was in HIGHTIMES hahaha..some chick put a dog in
the pic with herself and it was in HIGHTIMES or another mag again??
Just a RANT about how cops work,also they NEED evidence that is FRESH within
6 months or less.......or they wont even touch it huh!
YOu can say these pics/or grow was done last yr and your pretty much SAFE!!!!!!!
Believe me........been there an DONE that.
L fuckin g!
 

OLDproLg

Active member
Veteran
PS..any questions are OK!!

Lets see did i forget anything???????
My house has a fence all around the acre,and a gate that was lached
and a NO tresspassing sign too.......still they came storming in pounding
on the door dressed up in black with facemasks an bullet proof gear an all....
As one cop POUNED on the door the DEA agent was ALREADY in my garden.
After i went to the door.....the agent comes around from the back an said,
i got ya Lou i seen them...... well what was i supposed to do then??
Also they had bluffed me by sayin they had a spotter in a chopper fly over,BULL.
Cops can and WILL be DIRTY.....so who breaks the law worst,they do.
Oh,im still using my old imac??????....should i get a new one?
THanx an dont worry,but know the LAWS and DONT let them in no matter how
much they intimmidate you......i could have told them to LEAVE and maybe won!
After finding out the FEDS always have other angles to get you on,so no fight.
DId my time and that sucks for having a best friend mostly,some best friend?
Lg!
 

dddaver

Active member
Veteran
I stopped caring... WAY easier.

I really don't mean to hijack but this shit just bugs the hell out of me. Don't give a shit and don't read food labels either. I sure wish I could be more like that. My life would be so much simpler.

I do wonder if the US gov't says it has no evil intent by recording all that data, then why even do it at all. It must cost us taxpayers a shitload for them to do that. It seems fishy on the face of it.

I am concerned about the future of computing. Look what that giant Google is getting away with right now, and that's the trend? I personally think Gates and Jobs are singularly responsible for all this intrusive wayward criminal shit this has all become.

Not to get too far off track, but I think the FDA really dropped the ball. Look at the shit we're fed, the screwing from the DRUG companies we all live with.

In 50 years my grand-kids will be my age now. Considering all the crazy ass shit that we deal with now daily, I often wonder what their lives will be like. I'm not optimistic like I used to be.
 

FlowerFarmer

Well-known member
Veteran
If you are to the point that the PO PO is digging through your computer, I'd say you are already borked


This was not the cause of concern. There is a difference between being already "borked" and being extremely fucking "borked" depending on what they dig up on you with further charges filed.

OP is warning of browsing history because its possible that others may use your computer and rat you out due to your browsing history.

My concern was of law enforcement correlating my history here and bringing up further charges based on evidence of past grows. I mean.. here we are showing evidence of past crimes.. right along with yield reports, plant numbers, etc. The last thing I want is to be popped with a garden and then have further charges (and potential IRS implications) based on history of previous grows.

..next thing you know you're not being busted for simple cultivation, but rather running a criminal enterprise, conspiracy, money laundering, tax evasion, and any other bullshit they want to file.

Big difference.



Further point.. I've had friends busted for growing and their homes barely searched.. LEO missing things all over the place such as scales, personal misc drugs, cash. I've also had friends busted and their entire home ransacked..gone over with a fine tooth comb...looking for $$ they most certainly knew was to be had.

What they know of you plays a large part in how you are dealt with if busted. If they think you've got what they want, they'll stop at nothing to find it.


Had a friend get robbed the day after being raided. They didnt find much during the raid, nor everything they went looking for. Home broken into the next night and lots of valuables taken (tvs, jewelry, game consoles, etc). You think it was a coincidence? I certainly don't. It is much easier for them to thieve your shit (or send their goons) off duty.
 

Crusader Rabbit

Active member
Veteran
One of my concerns about a person losing anonymity here relates to a case where LEO kept a record of plant numbers over the years until the grower had a cumulative total over one hundred plants. At that point it went federal and LEO dropped the hammer on them. Post a couple grow shows on here and if they want to play this game you're in for a world of hurt.

If I walk outside with a leaf stuck to my shoe like a piece of toilet paper and it results in a search warrant for my home, I have to accept what they find in my grow room. But giving them your identity here is like handing over your personal diary.
 
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huligun

Professor Organic Psychology
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I always like to look at other people's browsing history... You get an idea how perverted some people are that way. (I am talking about my employees for the most part).

It is their Own Fault if they don't care enough to delete it or not create browsing history in the first place.
 

lost in a sea

Lifer
Veteran
still you shouldn't concern yourself with other peoples perversions you should concentrate on your own over active desires for the flesh of the earth then you would see that that of others as inconsequential..
 

huligun

Professor Organic Psychology
Veteran
still you shouldn't concern yourself with other peoples perversions you should concentrate on your own over active desires for the flesh of the earth then you would see that that of others as inconsequential..


Please... Don't tell me you don't like to see that kind of stuff if you could. I don't judge anyone, I just look. Nobody is perfect.

I will tell you this, I delete All My browser history. I do it many times over the course of every day. In Firefox Tools you can delete the history for any period in time you want. So if you are spending the day doing work, then spend an hour looking at something else, you can just tell it to delete the last hour of browsing history. That way you have a browsing history that is consistent with working and it doesn't look like you just deleted all your history to conceal something.

I don't advise my people to do anything. They can go and do what they want. But if you want privacy it is up to them to delete their footprints.

The kind of stuff I have seen? One fellow I know has a thing about big big women. You would have never guessed that just to talk to him.
 
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yerboyblue

Member
Please... Don't tell me you don't like to see that kind of stuff if you could. I don't judge anyone, I just look. Nobody is perfect.

I will tell you this, I delete All My browser history. I do it many times over the course of every day. In Firefox Tools you can delete the history for any period in time you want. So if you are spending the day doing work, then spend an hour looking at something else you just tell it to delete the last hour. That way you have a browsing history that is consistent with working and it doesn't look like you just deleted all your history to conceal something.

I don't advise my people to do anything. They can go and do what they want. But if you want privacy it is up to you to delete you footprints.

The kind of stuff I have seen? One fellow I know has a thing about big big women. You would have never guessed that just to talk to him.

Can I turn in an app at your workplace since nobody gets into trouble for browsing porn on company time?
 

DreamsofTesla

Member
Veteran
In my experience every cannabis site I've tried to use with Tor immediately banned me as a spammer, though I have not posted any spam. I just wanted to solve this exact problem. Unfortunately I guess the webmasters just find it more efficient to be proactive and assume anyone on Tor is a problem.
 
In my experience every cannabis site I've tried to use with Tor immediately banned me as a spammer, though I have not posted any spam. I just wanted to solve this exact problem. Unfortunately I guess the webmasters just find it more efficient to be proactive and assume anyone on Tor is a problem.

They banned you as a spammer? I've been using the TOR bundle for years with ICmag and GC with no problems. Now you may get a message saying that the IP address is blocked but you just click the Vidalia control panel and use a new identity.
 

DreamsofTesla

Member
Veteran
Yes

Yes

They banned you as a spammer? I've been using the TOR bundle for years with ICmag and GC with no problems. Now you may get a message saying that the IP address is blocked but you just click the Vidalia control panel and use a new identity.

It initially wouldn't let me register via Tor. Didn't say that IP was blocked, it said my registration was declined due to "no spammers." Though granted, that may have been due to the specific Tor IP.
 
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GoodyTwoShoes

Just something I found relating to tor.

"The Dark Web is the new underbelly of the internet," says Ken Gamble, chairman of the Australian chapter of the International Association of Cyber Crime Prevention. "It's seemingly uncontrollable, but of course there is a lot going on behind the scenes [by law enforcement agencies] that the public doesn't know about."
 
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