Hey Al, you're the man. I'm following up pretty well though. By next year, I may become a guru. LoL. I am going to borrow a friends digi cam, you have to see my wikidness. I need even more space.
hey, keep it up- and
you TOO may become a
w33d b4R0n.
I can't imagine what your space looks like and I'm sure you want more.
Well, you could always look at the photos of my op I've posted throughout this thread.
In actuality, I really DON'T want my op any bigger than it is. It's too much work as it is and makes MORE THAN plenty of dope. I mean, we're talking about 3lb/mo, Willis.
DAMN RIGHT!
The Law of Energy Conservation
Energy in is energy out. It can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed.
Yeah, no one explained that to the poor sad morons who sank millions into
Carl Tilley's truly fuckheaded garbage that any high-school science student could have debunked.
If it sounds to good to be true- it IS, every
SINGLE motherfucking time.
One question: I know Windows sucks ass.. but how much more difficult is it to use Linux?
I've been wanting to build a monster mobile PC with Linux so I can access WLAN connections where they are available and keep my connection hidden.
Winblows does suck (poor security, stability- but XP
was a giant leap forward), but Linux won't help you conceal your IP any better than any other OS. Security can be breached by you unknowingly running malware (spyware, keyloggers, Trojans)- on
any OS.
There's some GUI front ends around for Linux these days which make it as friendly to use as Winblows, but there's still not the plethora of applications available for Linux/Unix as one can find for Winblows.
Dude the best thing is to go with Mac OSX, I use a mac at my home and you can go private right from the desktop. Everything at the click of a button. Mac OSX is based on Linux, but more user friendly. I have no exp. with Linux. Other than I had a friend who I knew that booted linux and then can chose Windows or OSX. Let me know your choice. Dude you would be surprised how far a little mac mini will go. Go to apple.com 10 reasons to buy a Mac. Might change your mind.
Macs are computers for people who don't know how to use a computer- for only twice the price of a Wintel box. Macs/Mac OS are so consumed with doing things
for you that flexibility is lost. No thanks. I know the tech end and can make a Wintel box sit up and bark without Steve Jobs' help.
I'm glad you like your Mac- but they are not the be-all-end-all... the sun does NOT shine out of Steve Jobs' ass.
so with that said..... a person who has been posting from the jump with no proxy.....would you recommend them to start? or no because they can just pick up where you left off?
Consider your actual risk.
If the website you are using is being surveilled, with all traffic being recorded by a 3rd party, the observer will have correlated an IP address with your postings. That IP addy alone is fairly well useless aside from telling the observer what ISP you are logged on through. It does not itself divulge your identity nor physical address. Moreover, IP addresses change with many modes of connection. Cable modems often remain at the same IP even if the connection is cycled, but dial-ups and ADSL lines almost always change IP when logging off then on again.
If our observer is LEO and LEO thinks you're a big enough fish to fuck with, LEO can subpoena your ISP, providing the IP address and time of access. Your ISP will have to divulge the accountholder details. For that info to be worth anything in court, LEO
then has to prove that one particular person was using that particular connection when the 'illegal' communications occurred. LEO
really has to jump through some hoops to make any hay out of your postings on some pisswilly pot forum.
MUCH more likely is LEO attempting to entrap users of forums like this one by encouraging ppl to buy/sell prohibited materials. This means one must engage in direct contact with the buyer/seller outside of the forum. Negotiating a purchase means someone is giving away a physical address. Avoid buying or selling stuff with forum users and use PMs for direct private contacts.
A direct email or instant messenger (MSN, ICQ, etc) connection can divulge IP information that the forum protects you from divulging. Never contact forum users via email or IM.
If you are using Tor or a proxy, if a website is being surveilled, the observer will see communications between the IP of the last link in the Tor chain or the proxy server and the website. The observer won't be able to divine your actual IP.
However, considering how many hoops LEO has to jump through to make any use of an IP address, it's probably over the top in most cases to proxy up. LEO will be much more likely to try to entrap ppl through getting them to buy/sell prohibited materials- and it won't matter how many layers of the onion are covering your technical tracks if you're silly enough to buy/sell illegal materials online.