[Skip]

Lots of updates needed to any security FAQ these days thanks to Edward Snowden who should win the Nobel Peace Prize, imho.

1. ssl or https: isn't all that secure since the RSA encryption has backdoors specifically for the NSA, which means DEA can break it too. And now it only takes a couple of seconds to do.

2. Android and iPhones aren't secure AT ALL. In fact, they are poorly secured and can easily be accessed by the Feds and hackers too.

3. All the major US software companies have compromised the security of their products for the benefit of US gov't spy agencies. So you just have to assume that anything you do on an electronic device is being recording and archived somewhere.

4. Even hardware has been compromised! Computers, laptops, phones, tablets have been intercepted and modified or designed to allow gov't access without leaving any trace. It's quite likely that firmware has been modified either on a case by case basis or across the board.

So in summary, the more devices you use, the more attached you are to using them, the more at risk you put yourself if you are engaging in something illegal.

I pity the poor guy who just took a load of pics of his new grow room with his smartphone, then gets a traffic stop by the police who then look over his phone. Within an hour they've got a search warrant. The fact that he also posted his pics up on ICMag won't mean a damn thing to the cops. And if he just came from a special grow house, the cops can just look at his car's satnav system and see everywhere he's been lately.

One thing this thread shows is that REAL risk isn't posting insecurely on ICMag, but what history you have on your own computer or other device that can be used against you. Posting a pic of your grow on ICMag isn't illegal. But if that same pic is found on your computer when you get raided, it can then be used as physical evidence against you. That's how it works in the real world, they need real physical evidence of some sort.

[unregistered190]

Good points

[inthefire]

Rockwell-Somebody's watching me

[outhereinthesun]

Nice.. keeping it old school simple.

These are proper guidelines and anybody wanting a little edge on security need to take notes.


Also.... here is a browser: https://duckduckgo.com/

Peace Peace

[feeblebunny]

Consider Qubes OS. The xen hypervisor can run windows too. https://www.qubes-os.org/

[shithawk420]

People still use internet explorer?lol

[pashio]

For posting online I can recommend anyone using Tails operating system booted from flash. Its platform for security minded as it does use Tor network in default. (Hides your IP)

[Encrypt]

Originally Posted by Skip

Lots of updates needed to any security FAQ these days thanks to Edward Snowden who should win the Nobel Peace Prize, imho.

1. ssl or https: isn't all that secure since the RSA encryption has backdoors specifically for the NSA, which means DEA can break it too. And now it only takes a couple of seconds to do.

2. Android and iPhones aren't secure AT ALL. In fact, they are poorly secured and can easily be accessed by the Feds and hackers too.

3. All the major US software companies have compromised the security of their products for the benefit of US gov't spy agencies. So you just have to assume that anything you do on an electronic device is being recording and archived somewhere.

4. Even hardware has been compromised! Computers, laptops, phones, tablets have been intercepted and modified or designed to allow gov't access without leaving any trace. It's quite likely that firmware has been modified either on a case by case basis or across the board.

So in summary, the more devices you use, the more attached you are to using them, the more at risk you put yourself if you are engaging in something illegal.

I pity the poor guy who just took a load of pics of his new grow room with his smartphone, then gets a traffic stop by the police who then look over his phone. Within an hour they've got a search warrant. The fact that he also posted his pics up on ICMag won't mean a damn thing to the cops. And if he just came from a special grow house, the cops can just look at his car's satnav system and see everywhere he's been lately.

One thing this thread shows is that REAL risk isn't posting insecurely on ICMag, but what history you have on your own computer or other device that can be used against you. Posting a pic of your grow on ICMag isn't illegal. But if that same pic is found on your computer when you get raided, it can then be used as physical evidence against you. That's how it works in the real world, they need real physical evidence of some sort.

Hello, I'm a very privacy conscious guy and that's the main reason to don't share my grow op here and I would love to do it..

On my point of view the REAL risk is posting photos here, there is no way to remove all metadata, do you guys overwrite or delete the EXIF data form photos? If you remove it with free software even open source or you check the code for yourself or your trusting in what other people say, its more likely that your making even worst to your privacy..

EXIF data contains date, time, settings, personal information and GEOTAGGED DATA..

Thanks to Snowden we know now know android and apple have backdoors, and very likely the increase of "hide" metadata on any level, camera is not a exception so we cannot trust NOTHING with electronics in it..

Do you have any real solution for this huge lack of privacy mainly on the metadata from images?

[_tessarecting]

Icmag strips EXIF

[Encrypt]

I appreciate your answer, but just because the site uses third party image hosting services doesn't means that there is no metadata association.
EXIF standarts are the one who I care less with 2 lines of code you can remove them easily,
There is too much variations to control the data contained in the data (metadata) to be 100% sure.

All the image data for example, pixels are what I don't have any trust and way to check it, all the hardware capable of taking pictures -pos mass surveillance, have fingerprints in each image.. Like the well know case of the printers..

The solution is maybe to start with TESTED open source hardware camera ( hard to find) + open source computing device and a few more steps, too much trouble for just posting pics.



This is from a paranoiac privacy perspective