11-01-2015, 09:26 PM
Linville, as far as blackmailing you later on, we have one thing in our favor. Evidence gets stale pretty quickly. For instance, if I said I had 1000 benzos and was selling them, and posted a photo of them, that could get a warrant for searching the house, car, whatever if they go after it the same day. But, a week later and that is much weaker and the judge may not give the warrant. A month later and the judge very likely will not give the warrant. A year later its so stale there is little value in it.
Thats another reason to use a proxy, or vpn, tor, pgp, and whatever else you have. By the time they figure out where the post came from the evidence is stale so they don't even bother. It goes back to not being low hanging fruit. They have so many other things to deal with, as EasyDoesit said, they don't have time for difficult cases. The cop has to show results or he gets put back on parking patrol. His bosses don't care that he worked very hard to bust an older person with a forbidden drug, they just see one bust that took weeks or months while the other cops got 5 or 6 in the same time period. Politicians pay close attention to that too, better to take an easy bust and pretend they were a kingpin than to work long hours on a tough one that they may never solve.
When they see pgp, they give up on thatk, or tor either one. They know they will not be able to crack it. When they see a proxy or vpn used, they usually give up because they have to go through channels to find who sent it and evidence gets cold. Just making things a little bit more difficult for them works in your favor. Does the detective want to spend all day finding your ip from the proxy, then tracing that to an address, and trying to figure out who at that address did it or does he want to reply to the fool on craigs list selling his prescription? The fool is easy pickings, the guy with the proxy will probably be too tough to catch. Use a vpn that doesn't keep logs and even if they decide to make an example of you, they run into a brick wall.
Thats another reason to use a proxy, or vpn, tor, pgp, and whatever else you have. By the time they figure out where the post came from the evidence is stale so they don't even bother. It goes back to not being low hanging fruit. They have so many other things to deal with, as EasyDoesit said, they don't have time for difficult cases. The cop has to show results or he gets put back on parking patrol. His bosses don't care that he worked very hard to bust an older person with a forbidden drug, they just see one bust that took weeks or months while the other cops got 5 or 6 in the same time period. Politicians pay close attention to that too, better to take an easy bust and pretend they were a kingpin than to work long hours on a tough one that they may never solve.
When they see pgp, they give up on thatk, or tor either one. They know they will not be able to crack it. When they see a proxy or vpn used, they usually give up because they have to go through channels to find who sent it and evidence gets cold. Just making things a little bit more difficult for them works in your favor. Does the detective want to spend all day finding your ip from the proxy, then tracing that to an address, and trying to figure out who at that address did it or does he want to reply to the fool on craigs list selling his prescription? The fool is easy pickings, the guy with the proxy will probably be too tough to catch. Use a vpn that doesn't keep logs and even if they decide to make an example of you, they run into a brick wall.