HI All,
I thought I would right a post concerning internet security. Although I do not confess to being an expert cannabis grower, I do know a fair bit about network security, for security reasons I am not going to say how
There are some really good articles on general security in this forum that everyone should read, I have included a link below, as its good, sound practical advice. And unless you are a medical grower or are growing legally, security should always be your first thought. I am ex-military, and the one thing that teaches you is that the security of you, and those closest to you, is the first thought, and never an afterthought.
https://www.thctalk.com/cannabis-foru...Novice-Growers
This post thou is regarding internet security and how to stay anonymous on the internet, yet still be able to access places like this forum securely. Although I am posting this here, these rules are general to the whole internet, and should be used for anything you do online.
The first thing to discuss is this forum, if you are posting here, or maybe just viewing posts, or have a grow diary here, then that is potentially incriminating evidence. Before even registering on this forum, I checked out a few things, like where the server that hosts this forum is located, and gladly I did not have much joy . I am not a moderator, or affiliated in the running of this forum in anyway, and was really glad to see that the frontline security of this forum is protected by a proxy. What this means in plain English, is that for the police to obtain information from this forum, they would first have to petition the company that hosts this proxy, just to find out where the actual server is located. A proxy server is basically just a “man in the middle”, it sits and passes certain traffic from one place to another, but in security terms it means the law have to then get warrants for at least two places, rather than one. I do not know where this forum is located, which is a good thing, I would hope it is located in a country that has very good protection of privacy laws thou.
The next thing to discuss is your username and e-mail that you use to register, you should never use a username that could be identified with the real you, personally I wouldn’t even use a nickname that you have in real life. Now onto e-mail addresses, everyone should have at least 2 e-mail addresses, I have numerous e-mail addresses, and probably have at least 20 I have forgotten. But 2 e-mail addresses is the least you should have, you should have one that is the real you, ie [email protected], and another that can’t be identified with you ie [email protected]. The first e-mail address you should only ever use for real life official stuff, and the 2nd e-mail address should be used for everything else that isn’t official, and should be cloud based, like Gmail or Yahoo, this way nothing is stored on your local machine. Two e-mail addresses also helps with spam, as you will find that if you use the 2nd e-mail address for most stuff, most the spam will go to that account. TBC
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