Does anybody worry or hide their IP address??

Hi all, nice to meet you all,

I've posted a couple of threads on this forum and I think Im starting to get paranoid!! Does anybody worry about the FEDS gaining IP addresses or personal info from the website masters about us??

Thanks for your time and Im sure we'll all talk again soon......

How much money do you think they have?

I play by my State's rules and know I am not worth the Fed's time. Wife and I were in the back yard this weekend trimming plants. Sirens started wailing and getting closer and closer. Wife looks up and says, "Think someone OD'd at the market again?" Didn't concern ourselves for a second with it and just kept trimming away in the middle of the yard.

bump. Local police can do this too. Creeps me out.

LeonJer said:

Hi all, nice to meet you all,

I've posted a couple of threads on this forum and I think Im starting to get paranoid!! Does anybody worry about the FEDS gaining IP addresses or personal info from the website masters about us??

Thanks for your time and Im sure we'll all talk again soon......

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Hey LJ, I'm new here as well. Something that may help lessen your worry somewhat is using a VPN service. It will encrypt your connection from end to end plus give you a non local shared IP. With this any server logs here or elsewhere won't show your actual IP and the encryption will help prevent your ISP from snooping on you (which they do) so long as you also change your DNS config from using your ISP's DNS servers to a different provider, some of which are free to use.

Using a proxy server is also another option and many are free to use. If configured properly it can mask your IP pretty well but I don't consider this as secure an option.

As for VPN services, there are many available, some slow as cold molasses and some as fast as you can go. So if you do decide to go that way be sure to read legitimate reviews and go with a short term contract (monthly usually) at first so you can try it out for a while.

Is it 100% secure? Well technically nothing in the digital world is as far as I know as it really boils down to how many resources are involved. So if you make it just that much harder (or expensive) for someone to track you, then unless you're a big fish, chances are LEO will go set their hooks elsewhere.


Peace out,

Budder

The only people to fear are yourselves and the RIU staff. Note: I am not insinuating anything.. but for the feds to monitor your PC activity is not easy. Did anyone watch the Casey Anothony trial? The way they tracked computer searches was via the hard drive. They didn't subpoena the records of the websites to see when her IP address connected.

So keep your history clear, actually clear not just 'recycle bin' clear, don't tell anyone on here who you actually are if you have any concern about legality and most of all don't piss off the mods! They could technically hand over their entire database to the feds whenever they wanted. Not that they would or anything.