PRIVACY AND SECURITY
Today at 6:57pm
I would like to take this opportunity to give people a reminder about their rights and responsibilities regarding privacy:
You are responsible for your own privacy. We can ban people for posting your personal information and stalking you, but we cannot actually prevent it from happening. So don’t post personal information about yourself here, someone will end up tracking you down. This will be your fault.
Do not join either of Freedivers forums if you value your privacy. FD pays only lip service to protecting your privacy and personal information. I am serious about this: I was doxxed including photos from a homebrew website. The photos were passed around to members of the so–called PA there, then I was defamed with use of one of those photos. FD did nothing at all about any of this except to let IQ back into OzPol! A reward?
So NEVER give out the name of your town or suburb, state or capital city or “rural Qld” etc is enough.
The danger is mainly or solely from members of FD’s two forums. (We have suffered a hacking attack of the server on which this forum resided at the time, and such attacks are always possible but do not tend to harvest personal details.)
I have changed members’ posts to make their location vague but I may not see all such occurrences.
One member of FD’s website by the name of IQ, and others, are particularly keen doxxers. I cannot prevent him/them from reading the open forums here—up to you! IQ is supposed to have been away from FD’s website—maybe.
Make sure you have a good, long password and don’t store it in clear on your PC!
Today at 6:57pm
I would like to take this opportunity to give people a reminder about their rights and responsibilities regarding privacy:
You are responsible for your own privacy. We can ban people for posting your personal information and stalking you, but we cannot actually prevent it from happening. So don’t post personal information about yourself here, someone will end up tracking you down. This will be your fault.
Do not join either of Freedivers forums if you value your privacy. FD pays only lip service to protecting your privacy and personal information. I am serious about this: I was doxxed including photos from a homebrew website. The photos were passed around to members of the so–called PA there, then I was defamed with use of one of those photos. FD did nothing at all about any of this except to let IQ back into OzPol! A reward?
So NEVER give out the name of your town or suburb, state or capital city or “rural Qld” etc is enough.
The danger is mainly or solely from members of FD’s two forums. (We have suffered a hacking attack of the server on which this forum resided at the time, and such attacks are always possible but do not tend to harvest personal details.)
I have changed members’ posts to make their location vague but I may not see all such occurrences.
One member of FD’s website by the name of IQ, and others, are particularly keen doxxers. I cannot prevent him/them from reading the open forums here—up to you! IQ is supposed to have been away from FD’s website—maybe.
Make sure you have a good, long password and don’t store it in clear on your PC!
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