Do The Walls Have Ears?

[Flying Fox]

Every time I connect to this or a similar themed site I always have this nagging feeling in the back of my mind that someone somewhere is monitoring traffic trying to sniff out pedophiles, and that if they were to track the sites I'm accessing they would come to sites like this one, get the wrong end of the stick and get the authorities involved. This is why after n amount of time I still only have a small number of posts. When I'm in my flat at university my paranoia acts up even more since my traffic is regulated by the people who own the flats I think there's someone in a near by office keeping an eye on things. Reading this back to myself it sounds utterly stupid but still do I really have anything to worry about or is it just my paranoia getting the best of me?

- Thanks, F.F.

[wishing for diapers]

I personally don't go to sites like this at the office. But if you are really concerned about your privacy look into TOR and Onion Routing or anonymous proxy servers.

The first is rather complex, but essentially it routes your traffic randomly through other Onion users computers. It is supposed to be completely anon, but it does have a significant impact to speed. It can also be a bit of a pain to install and setup (at least the last time I looked into it). This also opens up others to bouncing off your computer (kinda the whole point is for every node to share with every other node) which could be even worse if illegal traffic was routed through your system and tracked back to you.

The later is much easier to use (but you usually have to pay for it) and it will encrypt all your proxied traffic via SSL and routes it all through their proxy servers (e.g. it looks lie all your traffic is going to one place).

That said, if I was monitoring (even passively) some ones traffic and saw either of these methods in use (they are easy to spot by someone remotely familiar with watching packets) that would send more red flags up than some sites that I might find questionable.

Just my $0.02

-d

[nappyloon]

A friend of mine was looking at a rather risky site on the works computer when he shouldn't have been !

A few days later the "I T" technician came along and was chatting to him when he said"well of course when you go to sites like XXXXXX&Y you will get "tracked"-he knew exactly where my friend had been and from his comments about one particular item he even knew which page !!

OMG Big brother or what !

As for using your home computer I would like to think that with a bit of care one would be alright, but in reality in this day and age those who run and "monitor" e mails and the like "have the power" and there is no doubt about that.

[BoTox]

Unless you are using an anonymous proxy, you are able to be tracked on the net. I've seen the logs and stuff at work. Those guys can find out EVERYTHING. If I know anything about you, an IP, a host name, literally anything, I can tell where you've been on the internet down to the exact page and image you viewed. It is scary. Never do it at work or Big Brother will poke a hole in your diaper and leak all over your clothes.

[Toddler Sissy]

You can be tracked anywhere you go, but whether you are being tracked or not depends on where you're accessing the internet. I don't think you're being too paranoid, but a tad bit yes. Unless you're a criminal or have drawn attention to yourself in other ways, it's doubtful that anyone is tracking you. You can get IP scramblers or anonymous proxies, and other solutions if you're worried about privacy. The casual observer won't be able to track you, though someone more determined (as pointed out earlier) might be even more suspicious as to what you ARE hiding.

Catch 22, no?

[Flying Fox]

I know how easy it is to track packets across the internet. In fact I wish i didn't then id be able to surf all day ignorantly unaware of who is watching. Would be bliss.

So I'm moving into a flat close to my university this weekend. What are the chances someone from upstairs is going to cut me off for coming here?

Never do it at work or Big Brother will poke a hole in your diaper and leak all over your clothes.

lal, brilliant.

[tris]

If you're not visiting pedophillic websites, than I would wager that you have nothing to worry about. It would also depend on what university you attend, what servers of theirs you go thru, and what you're studying. For example, you're in the UK. Supposing you went to oxford and you happened to be studying world governments, or perhaps a new theory that could impact human life all over the world, maybe somewhere, there would be a government agency who would check up on you from time to time. But I wouldn't worry, otherwise. Maybe they'd let a spy get away with wearing diapers from time to time --who knows? No one is that interested in what we do more than we are.

Goodluck.

[Dill_Pickle]

You can be tracked anywhere you go, but whether you are being tracked or not depends on where you're accessing the internet. I don't think you're being too paranoid, but a tad bit yes. Unless you're a criminal or have drawn attention to yourself in other ways, it's doubtful that anyone is tracking you. You can get IP scramblers or anonymous proxies, and other solutions if you're worried about privacy. The casual observer won't be able to track you, though someone more determined (as pointed out earlier) might be even more suspicious as to what you ARE hiding.

Catch 22, no?

If it's important enough to track, it will be...case in point being threats to the US president being sent through "anon.penet.fi", a former anonymous server, leading to the arrest of the offending US student that sent them. This was a dozen or more years ago.

The US legal system has ruled that there is no expectation of privacy in electronic communications, therefore there are no legal obligations on your ISP or anyone else to keep what you say or do private. Thus, the possibility of your true name being associated with whatever you do here is quite reasonable. Think, for a minute, of the present scandal involving "Whole Foods" and their company president coming online more or less anonymously and saying things about the company.

Now in the US, the shrinks recognize that sexual activity between consenting adults is not a problem. Senator Craig from Idaho is in trouble precisely because of the contradictions between his "Family Values" (bash the gays) public stance and getting a (otherwise very minor) ticket for not keeping his homosexual behavior private. So there is nothing illegal about your being here, though if you have some enemies, you probably wouldn't want them to know. But do remember that what you do here is public, and could become public ... and you don't want to do something you wouldn't do in public.

Dill Pickle

[Guest]

So does this basically mean if I want to be safe I should just leave now and never return??

[Valentine]

So does this basically mean if I want to be safe I should just leave now and never return??

I don't believe there is anything here that violates any laws. There are other sites out there that are more questionable though.

BTW The walls don't have ears, but the corn does.

[Dill_Pickle]

So does this basically mean if I want to be safe I should just leave now and never return??

No, it does not. It means you should behave like an adult here, and act like you expect to be held accountable for what you say and do. You might. More likely, you might help to drive out the witch hunters when they find you chasing the children out, making this place very infertile ground to look for pedophiles and other lawbreakers.

No generally acceptable behavior here is illegal. As long as you don't do something here which makes it worth someone's while to find you, you will remain anonymous. And if you get into a position of public trust, don't let on to that here.

If you leave and never return, you face a different danger: being socially isolated, or acting like certain republican senators and getting sex with strangers. Senator Craig got himself arrested, and probably caught something. Being isolated corresponds with unhappiness, and that correlates well with all kinds of diseases and early death. These dangers to you outweigh the risks of hanging out here and learning about yourself and what you need to do.

[just_here]

I personally don't see whats wrong with a diaper website...though visiting it at work when you have IT guys who check EVERYTHING could be a bit of a challenge and probably not such a good idea. Even if they did know, I'm sure they'd have enough tact to see that there is nothing pornographic about this website. If you are on a shared computer delete those cookies and internet files otherwise everytime someone types something that starts with a "d" on the address bar they'll get dailydiapers and yeah...they'd be like "wtf is this?!" Thats just about the only precaution I take and thats only cause I don't really care to answer too many questions.

BTW...its not the walls you gotta worry about...I'd be more concerned about that potty monster that eats bad lil kids when they go to the toilet!