Due to a few members talking to me about their concern about other members being "lazy" about security and privacy, and worried that I have perhaps not painted the picture well enough about the security of this site and the importance of staying anonymous on this site when talking about certain things - This is my attempt to do so.
Again - please review the rules:
https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php/topic,369.0.htmlStrong emphasis on this:
Posts should be timeless and impersonaland this
ALL Rules Apply to private messages (PM) as well as posts, or any method used on this site for communicating. DO NOT break the rules in Private Messages!Now... Some things I would like to point out:
1. You do not need a real email to sign up. Don't use a real one if you are not prepared with a "safe" email. Hide your email if you do not want members to see it! (The default is now to hide the email on registration)
-Suggested Reading:
Read and study this section of the forum:
Law & Security Pay attention to these (but be sure to read others!):
Maintaining your Anonymity Onlinepics and prints- possibly a concernDont Talk to Police - Good Videos!Be careful, image hotlinking is dangerous2. This forum offers
NO PROTECTION when it comes to privacy.
(That means PMs can be read by the hosting service, etc - follow the
rules, they apply to PMs and exist for a reason! If you use this site
according to its rules there is likely no need to encrypt, but if you don't, you might want to encrypt stuff.
3.
The Memoirs of Eleusis I am sure some of the members that used to be here
*could* write a similar story - but they are not here anymore.
This site
does not take responsibility in keeping/concealing users identities, information sent or anything else... it leaves that responsibility, or burden, on the users. (Maybe someday this will change, when more able)
The Vespiary is on a server that is NOT in our possession. This can be accessed by other parties besides the site administrator. That is the hosting company, which is subject to the patriot act.
RulesDisclaimerPlease mention ANY and ALL concerns in this thread that I have missed, that you would like to point out, or that you would like to emphasize again.