OK, I know im new (nick) but lets put that aside to discuss a serious concern.

Lets post a hypothetical scenerio

I am a grower and an IC Mag user.

I grow and breed medicinal quality marijuana

I share photos of my grow and anonymous information incuding unique strain name which I also use in real life

Person in real life googles strain name and finds only reference here and uses it to try to reverse engineer growers identity and location


PERHAPS

is there a way to keep user posts, pictures and other info from returning results in a search engine?

Is there a way to keep user information blocked from searches in the IC Mag search feature?


or is it best to obfuscate by starting over with a new NIC and new naming convention ??

[FreezerBoy]

I don't understand the point of a non-searchable data base. If you don't want to be associated with your posts, don't post.

change the name you use for the strain on the internet to something different than what you use in real life perhaps

Originally Posted by FreezerBoy

I don't understand the point of a non-searchable data base. If you don't want to be associated with your posts, don't post.

you can control who has access to your picutres and other parts of your profile

why should it be different with other content?

[cocktail frank]

icmag will continue to let search engines find them.
their business is to sell seeds, so they want new customers to find them.

do yourself a favor, dont put ANY info that could link u in real life on your acct here.
use your head

[Skip]

Person in real life googles strain name and finds only reference here and uses it to try to reverse engineer growers identity and location

Oh really? And how do they do that? Please let me know...

[exploziv]

even if icmag blocks those searches... google also can do this.

Better not to share personal info's and things that can help people tell who you are.

[lordbudly]

Originally Posted by Skip

Oh really? And how do they do that? Please let me know...

you create super cool awesome strain, friends smoke said strain and get blown, decide to google it for some odd reason, and the only reference to that strain is from lordbudly! lets check it out, woah killer 20kw grow system, then they say oh so and so is lordbudly with a 20kw grow going on(dramatization of course)

[Verite]

I share photos of my grow and anonymous information incuding unique strain name which I also use in real life

Why would it matter as long as no one that knows you personally knows that you grow?

Unless they do know you grow.

At that point you cant really expect a website to patch your security boat when youre still shooting holes into it.

Imo the only people that seem to really care about a strain name are growers. Users mostly are just focused on if its good weed or regular weed. Mentioning strain names to others than growers is more or less a waste of time and as you have found out a potential security risk.

[Skip]

Person in real life googles strain name and finds only reference here and uses it to try to reverse engineer growers identity and location

Originally Posted by lordbudly

you create super cool awesome strain, friends smoke said strain and get blown, decide to google it for some odd reason, and the only reference to that strain is from lordbudly! lets check it out, woah killer 20kw grow system, then they say oh so and so is lordbudly with a 20kw grow going on(dramatization of course)

OK, so YOUR FRIENDS know you're growing a strain, you turn them on to it and then they figure out...GOSH! You're growing that strain... Gee that's a real security issue, isn't it? Come on, that has nothing to do with this site.

If you can't trust your friends, don't turn them on...

I hardly call that "reverse engineering".