I posted this a while back I think it is worth posting again in light of what is happening.

The contents of Hushmail are encrypted and secure but the moment you list it in your forums profile the account is traceable to you if you access the forums without a encrypted proxy. Encrypted proxy servers like Tor, Zero Knowledge, Anonmizer and others hide your IP address and everything that you do from your ISP. Home pages on your ISP are a dead giveaway and link you back to your email account listed in your profile. Look at the properties on pictures posted and you will often see a direct link to the home page on the users ISP server some under directories with first initial and last name or screen name of the account owner. Home pages on other than your ISP server created behind an encrypted proxy are a much safer way to go. Give some thought to how exposed you are.

Anonymity on the internet comes at a price. I had to create this account because I compromised my last one by forgetfully accessing it when my proxy server was down. I cannot make any connection between this account and several hundred posts made under the previous one. Call me paranoid in a land of mandatory minimums and prison rapes. Why make it easy for them to do a data harvest without ever leaving their desks.

Not only does your ISP know who you are, but the computers you visit on the Internet know who your ISP is. Unless you take preventative measures, any computer you visit online can trace you back to your ISP. This is because each computer on the Internet, including yours, depends on an Internet Protocol (IP) number to figure out where to send that webpage you just requested, or that email you just checked. When you log onto the Internet, your ISP assigns your computer an IP number for that session. And IP numbers can easily be traced back to the assigning ISP. All ISP keep server logs which are archived and can be data mined for a particular account to establish links to web pages viewed, chat servers visited, messages sent with time place and date neatly listed.

Packet sniffers are at all major fiber hubs providing the ability to monitor data going into a re-mailer and out of it even if the timing is varied. If the little padlock isn’t showing your not on a secure site. Encryption between you and a proxy is secure and your IP remains hidden from any site you visit even if it is not encrypted. An unencrypted site can be monitored by packet sniffers for passwords PM messages, email addresses basically anything coming in or going out.

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So, if your ISP knows who you are, and every computer you visit on the Internet knows who your ISP is, then it's just a hop, skip and subpoena to connect the dots. If you've said something nasty about a company whose stock price has just cost you your early retirement, or blown the whistle on some corporate illegalities, your IP address leaves a trail of breadcrumbs that leads to your ISP, and thence to your door. (Note that the real "bad guys" of the Internet—the spammers, worm and virus writers, and the like—have sophisticated methods to "spoof" or hide their IP numbers, so you'll not be catching them this way.)


Full article at
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/003375.php



http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/

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The popularity of packet sniffing stems from the fact that it sees everything. Typical items sniffed include:
• SMTP, POP, IMAP traffic
Allows intruder to read the actual e-mail.
• POP, IMAP, HTTP Basic, Telnet authentication
Reads passwords off the wire in clear-text.
• SMB, NFS, FTP traffic
Reads files of the wire.
• SQL databse
Reads financial transactions and credit card numbers.



US confirms that the FBI has files on activist groups
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/19/2003264143



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The NCS already receives real-time data from Verisign Corp., which oversees two of the Internet's 12 root servers that tell computers around the world how to reach key Internet domains. The company gave the government a software tool that allows the NCS to monitor the health of all 12 root servers for free.

Lumeta Corp., a Somerset N.J.-based Bell Labs spinoff, sold the NCS large amounts of data pinpointing thousands of the most crucial routers on the Internet. Lumeta chief scientist Bill Cheswick helped create the first map of the Internet, which has been used to study Internet routing problems and distributed denial-of-service attacks.

One of the first companies successfully approached by the NCS was Boston-based Akamai Technologies, a company that makes software to monitor Web traffic for suspicious events. The company also sells a product that identifies the geographic location and network origin of visitors accessing customers' Web sites. Akamai CEO George Conrades is a board member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the company that manages the Internet's worldwide addressing system.



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Courts have upheld requests for production of documents that required companies to spend tens of thousands, and even millions of dollars to retrieve 'deleted' information or information stored on back-up tapes and servers.

Assentor Discovery is the enterprise solution for discovery and investigation of the message and content archives created by Assentor Archive. Powerful, efficient and high volume searching and document production capabilities make responding to discovery and litigation requests easy, fast and user-friendly.

Regardless of archive size or content types (e.g. email messages, attachments, instant messages or documents), Assentor Discovery provides legal departments with the capability to investigate the message and content archives and storage media and provide a workflow solution around the litigation support process.


http://whitepaper.informationweek.com/cmpinformationweek/search/browse/55066/55066.jsp


http://www.usaonwatch.org/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fstartwatch%2findex.aspx

Email privacy
http://www.emailprivacy.info/remailer_faq
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/eff_privacy_top_12.html
http://www.thefreesite.com/Anonymous_Freebies/

Proxy servers
http://tor.eff.org/ free
http://www.anonymizer.com/ paid
http://www.freedom.net/ paid
http://www.findnot.com/?1_hide_ippaid

Hmmmm

#1 Do not worry your IP is not of any interest to the DEA.
There are effective ways to hide by the way.

Anyhoo


I notice the title for this post is BCMP raid. Isn't that a political organization?

Ya think if someone was worried about whether the Pot Party was ever gonna float a winning candidate or the operation of the Seed Shop was prohibited in the book of George V75..P16..Line 26, they would get a buddy to buy some seeds, grow some pot, get busted in name only, leave lots of evidence pointing at Marc and smooth talk the Vancouver SS into believeing them and then.....nah could never happen. But if it did we wouldn't know it.

"Shure teech dem Cnaydians and deir pawt laws."

Maybe I have been to rense.com too much lately.

I believe at a Federal Level this will not grab enough backing to allow extradition of these guys to the states. I have bought seeds on the internet but never knew exactly who they came from.

Seeds are such a grey area here Marc continued to support their sale with some hassles but nothing like life in prison.

They will have to prove delivery directly from Marc and his alleged co-conspirators to the busted batallions in the US. Maybe they were sold to someone in Canada then they shipped to them.Just as likely a proposition as any.

Are Marcs fingerprints on the package?

I don't know if there can be grounds for sending a Canadian to a life sentence in another country when he/she/they did not directly gain from the use of or the final product of the materials supposedly supplied. Especially when it can't be definitely proven the accused sent anything stateside.

Also was the busted pot from the 10 or 100 mailorder seeds or from clones or seeds made from the mailorder seeds.

American laws are loose enough to call public farting a conspiracy to pollute (if need be). We can hope two years down the road when the extradition hearings get to their final stage, the Bush Bunch will be in jail for their crimes against humanity and Marc will have lots of company or we won't send him anywhere.

By the way the bomb making instruction people went to court and got off. Let it work its magic and we will see if bombers get better lawyers.

Tannaberton Abacrombie

Will Marc get released from jail or will he stay in jail until all the extradition stuff is over? What about MJ man and michelle, any word on them yet, will they be released soon?

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!

U.S. seeks extradition of Canadian pot crusader
Last Updated Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:28:06 EDT
CBC News

Vancouver police armed with a search warrant have raided a pot-seed store run by Marc Emery, the head of the B.C. Marijuana Party.

* INDEPTH: Marijuana

Marc Emery in Charlottetown, P.E.I., in 2003

The warrant was executed on behalf of the U.S. government.

Emery himself was taken into custody in Halifax.

The document alleges a conspiracy to produce marijuana and distribute seeds as well as alleging money laundering.

"Their activities resulted in the growing of tens of thousands of marijuana plants in America. He was involved, allegedly, in an illegal distribution of marijuana in this country [U.S.]. He is a drug dealer," assistant U.S. attorney Jeff Sullivan told CBC News.

Vancouver police officers carried out the raid. As a result Emery is out of business.

Chris Bennett, who works for Emery and was at his office when it was raided, says he's angry an American warrant was executed by a Canadian police force.

"They're taking him down to face charges in the United States of America. And sentences in America for this kind of thing is so much harsher that one would face in Canada," said Bennett.

U.S. officials allege that Emery has sold as much as $3 million in seeds.

American officials are seeking Emery's extradition, which could take six months to a year.

Headlines: Canada

This is insane. It's bad enough that the U.S. government likes to ruin the lives of its own citizens (not to mention Iraqis, Afghanis......), I wish they'd keep their noses out of our business.

I think we need to take on the same sort of effort to deal with American invasion of our sovereignty that we do fighing the drug war. They will stop at nothing to go after anyone they target for whatever reason, since they obviously own the world. You'd almost think they were going out of their way to make as many enemies world wide as they can...and they're doing a damn good job of it.

I am horrified at this news, furious with my country’s government, and at this moment I am ashamed to be an American. With all the problems we have in my country, I find it astonishing that Bush and his trained dogs squander taxpayers’ money on something as harmless to society as marijuana.

Question to Canadians: do you think your government will extradite?

Yikes, I haven't been this angry at my gov't since Viet Nam

Mary Vee