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Vesp:
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.html
Strong emphasis on this:
Posts should be timeless and impersonal
and 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 Online
pics and prints- possibly a concern
Dont Talk to Police - Good Videos!
Be careful, image hotlinking is dangerous


2. 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.

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Please 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.

The Lone Stranger:
Thanks for that i think that it is needed . What about a sticky that explains all the things a person can do to maximise their / our / your / the sites security ? One where people can write and discuss their ideas and the ones that are decided to be good / worthwhile get writen into the first post as they come up .

The reason for them being put in the first post is so that people dont get confused and / or insecure while reading the whole thread . I am sure from what i have read here that the ideas and info we have need clarifying and their advantages and disadvantages pointing out .

OK the ideas are all probably here but they are spread across to many threads and posts . Getting an over view and sorting the wheat from the chaff is then hard .

Vesp:

--- Quote ---Thanks for that i think that it is needed . What about a sticky that explains all the things a person can do to maximise their / our / your / the sites security ? One where people can write and discuss their ideas and the ones that are decided to be good / worthwhile get writen into the first post as they come up .

The reason for them being put in the first post is so that people dont get confused and / or insecure while reading the whole thread . I am sure from what i have read here that the ideas and info we have need clarifying and their advantages and disadvantages pointing out .

OK the ideas are all probably here but they are spread across to many threads and posts . Getting an over view and sorting the wheat from the chaff is then hard .
--- End quote ---

I would be very much for that  - and I will likely add new things to the post above, as I have with others as they get mentioned.


--- Quote ---sorting the wheat from the chaff is then hard .
--- End quote ---
It is hard to also do in a post - I would be happy if someone wanted to take on that task - but if I must, I can work on that -- but there is always debate - A good example of this is TOR, some people think it is more or less a scam to get all of the "fish" into a shallow pond - but others think it is a good tool... currently there is no conclusive evidence AFAIK. So both sides need to me mentioned, as you said the advantages and disadvantages of each - but than it starts to become a rather long winded confusing post...
Additionally each person has a "Enough is enough" limit - some simply using a proxy is good enough, while others might go as far as proxy, open wifi, live disk, with a bought with cash laptop...

I guess I could say that it is not clear what is the wheat and what is the chaff.

I honestly feel that someone more into computer security than I should write such a thing - I could try to regurgitate what I have read/think I know - but I am surely not the most qualified to write such an article.

The Lone Stranger:
Thats exactly what i mean . I was thinking about the fors and against TOR and proxys and a few other things .The debates in the thread will of cource be heated and long winded . But after we all agree on the pros and cons the person who organised the first post should write the subject ..... for example TOR , what its suposed to do and the pros and cons in as few words as possible .

salat:
I think if they want you there isn't a lot you can do to really protect your identity online.  Although I've known some people who took a good stab at it.

If you talk about stuff while it is progress you make an easy target. 

Being poor helps - I've noticed the DEA etc seems to be going more after the money busts these days.

The govt is smart so when they passed the forfeiture laws the way they did, they made a policing drugs a profitable enterprise for local depts.  To sweeten the deal they created HIDTA which is a program that combines Local LE (usually the hotshots get this plum assignment) with DEA agents.  As an added bonus, the local LE gets the officers position paid for by govt grants.

So you might not be big enough to attract Uncle Sam's attention, but if you are in one of the counties with a HIDTA team you might show up on their radar.  Anybody heard about the team that raided a guy and then played bowling on his nintendo?  He's still likely to go to jail and the officers got a slap on the wrist and retraining.  That's your tax dollars at work!

Salat

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