What's new
  • ICMag with help from Landrace Warden and The Vault is running a NEW contest in November! You can check it here. Prizes are seeds & forum premium access. Come join in!

Internet growers security

7

70s_PotHead

I'll try and keep this simple

With the Emery and Italy bust what can us do as growers who post grow threads and pictures of our babys on the internet do to protect ourselves, not just at this site but other MJ message boards as well?

Is it true that you can only be found if LEO gets your IP addy?

How can they get your addy without getting the server?

Infilterate the Moderators section??

What can we do to hide our IP addy?

Just how safe is it these days to show off our grows? I've done it here and at another site and never worried about it to much, should I be??

If I can hide my IP addy now, what about all my old pics and post, can I be found from that IP addy?

Ok way more questions then I planned on, hopfully there are lots of answers to go with them.

Thanks in advance

70s :joint:
 
MrChronic

MrChronic

Member
It would be nice if icmag was using https:, it is a bit more secure. I know how to use a few exploits, which are very basic basic exploits. The gov't has agents who sit and train ALL DAY LONG, on how to backdoor their own systems, when they bust people, they hire them. If they want to find you.. THEY CAN, on the internet anyways.

For example, if the server overgrow is on, keeps a history of IP's that access the server, even a few days worth of history. If the server got confiscated they would have alot to go on, as far as tracking people down. Your IP is like a finger print.

Not like i have ever heard of many cases of online forums busting people. but they will catch on sooner or later, and with the new laws in the US, they can basically do what they want :yoinks:

On another note, just posting won't get you caught, if you post pics of things that can help them find you, that is your fault. The cops would have to go to extreme measures to get ahold of our IP's. :dueling:
 
KRS Juan

KRS Juan

Member
First download and install Tor: http://tor.eff.org
It's been explained on this forum a couple times and suffice to say it's very very safe and does a perfect job of hiding any personal info.
It's free, open source, and available for every major operating system.

Step 2. Remove all EXIF info from any digital photo's before posting them to the web. There are many scripts and applications for doing this, or simply copy the image in your favorite image editing app and paste it into a new document. EXIF can often contain your camera's serial number and that's a bloody glove if you get busted.

-KRS Juan-
 
L

left hemi

Member
I second mr. chronic's thoughts. this is one of my favorite rants. to turn a dynamic ip into a human name and address assumes that a couple of bureaucracies keep very extensive, very accurate records and that the govt is willing to put the resources in to gather and collate them. there are at least 2 clauses in that statement I find reassurance in. keep in mind that nominally drug enforcement is a function of local leo not bush's gestapo (if you're not marc emery, or angel raich you prolly don't have to worry about torture-boy gonzales) and local leo has even fewer resources to take on such a task.
 
L

left hemi

Member
it is not necessarily true that they would have to get the server and the server would have to be recording ips. a sniffer (ie carnivore) at the right place could easily capture all ips destined for IC, but it's still a major job to turn that ip into a name and address.
 
KRS Juan

KRS Juan

Member
And with an encrypted proxy app like Tor, carnivore (which isnt even used anymore)would get lost after just a few steps of that major job.

-KRS Juan-
 
G

Guest

KRS Juan said:
Step 2. Remove all EXIF info from any digital photo's before posting them to the web. There are many scripts and applications for doing this, or simply copy the image in your favorite image editing app and paste it into a new document. EXIF can often contain your camera's serial number and that's a bloody glove if you get busted.

-KRS Juan-
Click to expand...

Sorry to sound like a dumb ass here but KRS, is it possible that just the act of resizing and re-saving the pic does this also?
eg: removing that EXIF info>?
 
penguins

penguins

Member
wow, great link KRS, thanks!

thanks for the EXIF info as well. along the same lines as Leeroy, i've noticed that the galleries here seem to automatically resize really big images, would that be destroying the EXIF info in the process?
 
KRS Juan

KRS Juan

Member
Most applications keep the EXIF info when resizing because it also keeps information like exposure and aperture settings. I have no idea if the server does any EXIF stuff automatically, but a quick msg to GL will clear things up for ya on that.

-KRS Juan-
 
m.steelers

m.steelers

Enlightened
Veteran
KRS - are you also using the Privoxy application? I guess what I am asking is that is also needed or if I can run TOR solo? I also use NAT on my router, but it would still disply the public facing IP of my modem, not the actual CPU.
M.S
 
Green Lantern

Green Lantern

nah
The gallery extracts exif for you.
314exif.jpg
 
KRS Juan

KRS Juan

Member
m.steelers: Tor and Privoxy are a package and need each-other to work.

shopvac: No problem, always remember the EFF. They are the only ones out there fighting for your digital rights.

Green Lantern: GL to the rescue. But "display and extract" sounds like the opposite of what we want here, does it offer the ability to remove/strip EXIF?

sackoweed: I think your a little confused. Mozilla.com is simply a website for the applications Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird. If your using one of those applications then your IP is not any more protected than using Internet Explorer/Opera/Ect. ect. and should still install Tor.
 
bartender187

bartender187

Bakin in da Sun
Veteran
squirrle- "Does anyone know of any program like tor for mac users?"

Tor and Privoxy are fully compatible for mac, and are even packaged together..

Download-
http://tor.eff.org/dist/osx/Tor 0.1.1.5-alpha Bundle.dmg

Walkthrough-
http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc-osx.html



For Windows-

Download + Install Tor-
http://tor.eff.org/dist/win32/tor-0...alpha-win32.exe

Download + Install Privoxy-
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/...tup_3_0_3-1.exe

then hit up this Walkthrough-
http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc-win32.html

Scroll down to the part about Privoxy. Make sure you add that line to the Config file... and "comment" out the two log files.

Then install the SwitchProxy tool for Firefox... this will let you easily an quickly switch between secure and normal browsing.

Walkthrough for SwitchProxy-
http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-switchproxy.html

be safe,
 
m.steelers

m.steelers

Enlightened
Veteran
I am having some problems getting the Privoxy to work. I lose access to the internet when I run Privoxy. I am not sure that it is compatible with my VPN client. Going to have to take a deeper look later tonight.
 
m.steelers

m.steelers

Enlightened
Veteran
I got it working, but does anyone else experience extended download times? It's almost unbearable. I'm using IE.

Please let me know. I want to implement something but these speeds are terrible. I would imagine it has to do with routing through the proxy instead of the shortest path.

BTW - thanks for all the advice folks, not comlpaining just want to make sure I have it implemented correctly.

MS
 
KRS Juan

KRS Juan

Member
Due to the triple routing and triple encryption, the speeds are not very good for downloading files with. The system is really not designed for large data transfers.

-KRS Juan-
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Latest posts

Top