[Taliz]

Does anybody worry about authorities monitoring IP Addresses that post this website.

When I told a friend in the ISP industry i had registered at ICmag I got a verbal warning about posting anything that may incriminate me, and that all ip addresses that post sites like these may be monitored.

It doesn’t particularly worry me as I only have a couple of plants for personal use, and here in the UK you just get equip confiscated and a slap on the wrist.
However, it would be nice to know how secure these forums are..

ANY INFO MUCH APPRICIATED...

[Taliz]

May I ad that his warning stops me uploading any photos or starting a gallery....

IS THIS JUST PARANOIA

[Existenzophile]

Originally Posted by Taliz

Does anybody worry about authorities monitoring IP Addresses that post this website.

When I told a friend in the ISP industry i had registered at ICmag I got a verbal warning about posting anything that may incriminate me, and that all ip addresses that post sites like these may be monitored.

It doesn’t particularly worry me as I only have a couple of plants for personal use, and here in the UK you just get equip confiscated and a slap on the wrist.
However, it would be nice to know how secure these forums are..

ANY INFO MUCH APPRICIATED...

Everyone should be actively worrying about their privacy being infringed upon by malicious entities. Weather it is Government agencies or Individuals, we are all at risk.

Your friend was right to warn you, but his warning is just common sense. Anything you put into a computer has the potential to be used maliciously, it could be your Name, or pictures on your Myspace page, credit card information, even telling your friend that you registered at ICmag is a security risk. It can all be used against you by malevolent persons or organizations.

So what can you do about it?

The first step is to not trust your security in the hands of someone else. Your concern shouldn't be how secure this site is, but how secure you are. This website could be run by the most compassionate and trustworthy people, but that doesn't mean someone hasn't compromised the site, or even them.

You need to proactively take steps to protect your identity, and the security of your computer. I'm in the procss of working out some basic guidelines for Internet Security to post here, but for the time being I've already got a purpose built solution that is easy to implement and provides layered security (Defense In Depth) and is pretty damn secure.

Check out this thread.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=40575

Welcome to Icmag Taliz, I hope you time here is happy, secure, and fun
If you've got any more detailed questions I'd be more than happy to help!
-Ex-

[Taliz]

WOW... Speedy Response

Personally I'm fairly secure, he is the only person (a fellow grower and clone donator) that knows of my existence here.

Thanks for the link Existenzophile..
It's a bit over my head, but i'll do some research..

T.....

well im not medical state been growing over five years post 1000s of pics over the years..overgrow was home first...ic mag since 03 change screen name pretty often i was nervous when i started but shit i could careless now...i just follow the three simple rules...never popped...i think the people that get popped are the ones who smell...tell...or sell...but i will say if i do get busted and shafted i will start to sell thats for sure...every action has a equal and opposite reaction

[mtnjohn]

if the leo's take the time to investigate and bust "me".....well then, they will be wasting taxpayers money and they will also be very dissapointed , cuz it would be obvious to anyone that my grow is purely for personal use...hahahaha
a misdemeanor in my state...not good , but not anything that i wouldnt get over....

so i say fuck em

Originally Posted by Taliz

Does anybody worry about authorities monitoring IP Addresses that post this website.

When I told a friend in the ISP industry i had registered at ICmag I got a verbal warning about posting anything that may incriminate me, and that all ip addresses that post sites like these may be monitored.

It doesn’t particularly worry me as I only have a couple of plants for personal use, and here in the UK you just get equip confiscated and a slap on the wrist.
However, it would be nice to know how secure these forums are..

ANY INFO MUCH APPRICIATED...

Good thread.

So if this webpage is monitored, can someone monitor my IP?

Please someone put up some more info on this.

Existenzophile: I don't have LINUX, any other options?


Peace

if the government people want to monitor you they will find a way. This isn't even conspiracy theory stuff. Unless you're in the top 1% of internet security savvy people, odds are you're not covering your tracks enough even with the best identity protector programs and codes. You've pretty much just gotta decide how much of a risk you are willing to take and what you think the odds are that some agency would monitor your grow. If you're paranoid, just don't post anything incriminating. This is there the whole AFOM (a friend of mine) thing started on other sites (and gets sooooo annoying by the way). People just didn't wanna say it was them. There are laws prohibiting the use of digital photography as the sole evidence against a person in court, due to the fact that people can edit digital pics just about any way they like now. This doesn't mean they couldn't use something against you to obtain a warrant and get actual evidence. One thing you'll notice on here is that not a lot of growers put up pictures of or even admit to being large scale commercial growers, because this only puts them at more risk than they need to be in.

[OLPWebmaster]

Originally Posted by Taliz

Does anybody worry about authorities monitoring IP Addresses that post this website.

When I told a friend in the ISP industry i had registered at ICmag I got a verbal warning about posting anything that may incriminate me, and that all ip addresses that post sites like these may be monitored.

It doesn’t particularly worry me as I only have a couple of plants for personal use, and here in the UK you just get equip confiscated and a slap on the wrist.
However, it would be nice to know how secure these forums are..

ANY INFO MUCH APPRICIATED...

What you need to doi to solve "All Your Problems" is to first install the Browser "Firefox" then Install "TOR" which will bounce your IP address that wil show up on ANYONE"S LOGS all around this HUGE World of ours, & Show THEIR IP ADDRESS & NOT Your Real IP Address

& Best Of All It's Is Completely FREE!

All the directions & download links that you will need are post on my
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https://www.onlinepot.org/security/Se...nStartPage.htm

Start First With Installing The "FireFox Browser FIRST! The Link for it is posted, The Go Onto the "TOR" "PRIVOXY" Set ups.

& Then you will NEVER use your old IE Browser again

Stay Well & Stay SAFE! With "TOR"
Chris/OLP

[Taliz]

Fantastic Advice OLPWebmaster

If off to look into this now...