How can I learn about Internet security?

Hi,

I would like to learn how to protect my privacy so I don't get into trouble with "them". I have heard that using a proxy is useful, but I have no idea about it. I have also seen that you have a security subforum, but I need to pay to get access to it, I think. Is there any other way to learn about it? Please only provide relevant information, not the wikipedia definition of security My goal is to learn how to visit 100% anonimously this type of websites.

Thanks in advance.

A proxy server on a wireless internet dongle leaves you pretty much untrackable

Use tor with vadillia (just google it for instructions) and make sure you dont take pics of your plants with smart phones because they embed the GPC coordinates of where the pic was taken.

It seems like everyday, there's new gadgets and high tech crap, the internet cant be trusted in my opinion. hackers, fraud artists, just don't put any information out that could be used against you.

i don't think it's really anything to worry about man, i've never heard of anyone getting into trouble because they were on forums designated for marijuana growing

however, if your that stoned then i agree with Clonex

Unless you use a pre pay phone that is not registered

put it this way the only way that they would target you and take the time to track you ip/ mac adress is if you were some big time dealer/ or you were under investigation witch you would hopfully be able to tell by a new car on your street or you see the same person that you know dosent live in the area hanging around close to your place and a proxy is not a usb dongle and you are not untraceble a proxy is a diffrent server that you gain accses to the web from and thos can still very easly be traced

zell992004 said:

put it this way the only way that they would target you and take the time to track you ip/ mac adress is if you were some big time dealer/ or you were under investigation witch you would hopfully be able to tell by a new car on your street or you see the same person that you know dosent live in the area hanging around close to your place and a proxy is not a usb dongle and you are not untraceble a proxy is a diffrent server that you gain accses to the web from and thos can still very easly be traced

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who said a proxy server was a usb dongle ?

Here is your best and foolproof option, download something called TORbrowser. It projects a different IP than yours everytime you launch it. Works like a champ for me, and it pulls back the curtain to a hidden internet, the seedy dark malicious underbelly of the internet. Kinda fun to browse it...cheers.

snicol said:

Here is your best and foolproof option, download something called TORbrowser. It projects a different IP than yours everytime you launch it. Works like a champ for me, and it pulls back the curtain to a hidden internet, the seedy dark malicious underbelly of the internet. Kinda fun to browse it...cheers.

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i kinda have a thing for dark malicious underbellys, i'm gunna check this thing out haha

ZeeBuds said:

i kinda have a thing for dark malicious underbellys, i'm gunna check this thing out haha

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let me know when you get it running and ill give you some wild sites to check out.

snicol said:

let me know when you get it running and ill give you some wild sites to check out.

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Send me some .onion sites only one i know is silkroad.

snicol said:

Here is your best and foolproof option, download something called TORbrowser. It projects a different IP than yours everytime you launch it. Works like a champ for me, and it pulls back the curtain to a hidden internet, the seedy dark malicious underbelly of the internet. Kinda fun to browse it...cheers.

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I got it a few minutes ago. It's great, thanks!

cant i just use google??

Firstly depending on your local laws you'll want to encrypt your hard drive using something like truecrypt etc. United states law I think pretty much doesnt make you give up your passwords for it (unlike the UK) . But even if some states do or whatever, TrueCrypt has a decoy function that makes it impossible for feds etc to prove that youre lying about the existence of another crypted disk (makes more sense if you have it)

There are other less drastic options, like you can download a portable browser and put that into its own crypted volume (So basically it just shows up as a random file with your choice of name and extension .jpg, .exe etc. only you know what it really is and only you can get in with a password.) but although that works well against the average joe, browsers have a habit of leaving traces of just about anything in separate places all over on your computer, and going around and manually erasing them isnt practical or effective, even with software designed to securely remove.


As for internet, proxys are good on paper, but most proxy companys will easily fold over a subpoena if the stuffs bad enough. then once feds get your real IP, your internet service provider will bail you out in a heartbeat. The FBI admitted to having 2 or 3 of Americas biggest internet service providers on a kinda "instant access" type deal on everyones information. They wouldnt reveal the names of the companys as it would "affect sales or trust" of customers. no shit...

Tor would be your best bet but its very slow, can be speeded up with better configurations, but as far as "safeness" of proxies, thats as best as you can get. Still not great though.

The best of the best is a VPN. I used to own one a while back. Monthly subscription or you can pay via cash for extreme anonymity. They're servers that you connect to in countries that dont legally have to keep logs of any connections or data. Not even your service provider can see what youre doing as it just shows you connecting to one source. They're ultra fast and pretty much fed proof. Even in the past when police have HAD to confiscate servers (over child porn mainly), they've found nothing as there's nothing to find.

There's a short nerdy 101 for you