New Grower Is "The Man" watching these posts?

[DABaracuss]

I said it1nc and ill say it again this site is the shizzle! I love AFN! Always on their toes..lol

 

[Alaskan1]

Wow! Lots of views for this thread already. Guess others have wondered the same thing.

Hey, check out my new grow journal thread, unless you are "The Man!" Ha!

https://www.autoflower.org/f44/lowryder-2-grow-seed-smoke-19648.html#post379714

 

[Alaskan1]

Hey all,
Based on the number of views, this is a hot topic. But only a few have posted responses... Let's hear from you! Why is this post topic interesting to you?

 

[Sir Cunning]

Posting from your phone has more traceble information than a camera. Not on this site, and other sites as well, but make sure wherever you do post that you cant be linked. If you have ever loaded a picture from your phone on to your computer, look at the picture, and look at all the information you can get by right clicking it and see the specifics. You might be surprised. It has your phone number, and it even has the GPS location of where the picture was taken, if the settings are not secure.

Alright Alaskan, I'll chime in. I've said it before but this seems like the right place to bring it up again - that data is called exif data Eekman, and yes, if you've got the settings on your phone to do so it will save phone number, GPS, phone model and exact time and date along with the photo. Cameras can save some data too, including GPS if the model supports it. As you can imagine this is not necessarily information you would want on the internet, for various reasons. Hypothetically, if I was concerned I would download a program called exif cleaner (or something similar), a free download which takes about 10 seconds to download, 10 to open and clean your photos of all exif data then close again. You could be hiding behind 7 proxies and have over 9000 different IPs but that won't do you any good if it takes 2 seconds to find out exactly where and when the photo was taken. If someone was hypothetically concerned about this I couldn't hypothetically recommend it strongly enough, it should be your first port of call. At the very least check, like Eek said.

Alaskan, I break it down in my head like this; to get busted, you either need to cock up really bad yourself and attract unwanted interest, or have someone else bring that attention upon you. If you're being smart, keeping your head down and not growing industrial amounts you won't bring that attention upon yourself. You're just one in a myriad of growers posting pictures online. Don't stand out and they won't need to come looking, and if they do then that's when you rely on common sense - if you can't be linked to pictures/posts, then that's the end of the story. Like everyone has said, no personal info anywhere, ever.

If I'm not mistaken, isn't there a checkbox that you click upon signing up, near the terms and conditions, that states something along the lines of 'I certify I am in no way associated with law enforcement'? I could be wrong though.

Everything I have just said, as with the rest of the website, is of course completely hypothetical. In truth I do not have any single idea what I am talking about. Nothing I say is serious, it is all in jest and speculation. In actual fact I am a warm bag of porridge sitting near a laptop.

I thought all info on this site was purely hypothetical...I can't imagine anyone on here would break the law!

 

[rshackleferd]

I have read about one guy getting busted because he posted a vid on youtube of his grow op with a letter addressed to his house on the vid, like every one says just don't get stupid.

 

[MaxTrichomes]

And as a community if such mistakes happened we should always notify the person ASAP as being the right thing to do for damage limitation.

 

[Alaskan1]

Alright Alaskan, I'll chime in. I've said it before but this seems like the right place to bring it up again - that data is called exif data Eekman, and yes, if you've got the settings on your phone to do so it will save phone number, GPS, phone model and exact time and date along with the photo. Cameras can save some data too, including GPS if the model supports it. As you can imagine this is not necessarily information you would want on the internet, for various reasons. Hypothetically, if I was concerned I would download a program called exif cleaner (or something similar), a free download which takes about 10 seconds to download, 10 to open and clean your photos of all exif data then close again. You could be hiding behind 7 proxies and have over 9000 different IPs but that won't do you any good if it takes 2 seconds to find out exactly where and when the photo was taken. If someone was hypothetically concerned about this I couldn't hypothetically recommend it strongly enough, it should be your first port of call. At the very least check, like Eek said.

Alaskan, I break it down in my head like this; to get busted, you either need to cock up really bad yourself and attract unwanted interest, or have someone else bring that attention upon you. If you're being smart, keeping your head down and not growing industrial amounts you won't bring that attention upon yourself. You're just one in a myriad of growers posting pictures online. Don't stand out and they won't need to come looking, and if they do then that's when you rely on common sense - if you can't be linked to pictures/posts, then that's the end of the story. Like everyone has said, no personal info anywhere, ever.

If I'm not mistaken, isn't there a checkbox that you click upon signing up, near the terms and conditions, that states something along the lines of 'I certify I am in no way associated with law enforcement'? I could be wrong though.

Everything I have just said, as with the rest of the website, is of course completely hypothetical. In truth I do not have any single idea what I am talking about. Nothing I say is serious, it is all in jest and speculation. In actual fact I am a warm bag of porridge sitting near a laptop.

Hey thanks! This is a well thought-out response. Good info!

 

[ograndeviado]

The reason I looked at the postings, was because I am always surprised at peoples paranoia, 40 years ago I would say it would be natural as cannabis was a lot higher up Police priorities than it is now. As long as you are not very stupid or very unlucky you will be ok in most places. Sure there are still laws, but not strictly enforced, the British police, for instance, have been told by the judiciary not to clog up the courts with small scale drug grows. Lets face it practically every adult has come into contact with it during their lives (even if they dont "inhale") and know it is not really a problem at all

 

[Sir Cunning]

Lets face it practically every adult has come into contact with it during their lives (even if they dont "inhale") and know it is not really a problem at all

We hear you brother. If only that's what the legislation said!