I know I could be taking some **** by posting this, but believe me, I'm only doing it for the benefit of our community.
Let me first state, for a period of 1 year, I was a member of a team that was delegated an assignment (by whom I won't say) to investigate terrorists and their financial networks for the Department of Defense. I was what you would call an Intel Analyst.
Now, what does this have to do with anything with our community? To me, it has a lot to do with it. First off, the training I underwent to get involved with being an Analyst is quite different thinking than other jobs. Now, a lot of stuff is so evident you can put one and one together very simply.
I will state, as a person who followed names and identities given to us by the DoD, finding things out about people doing illegal operations is not as hard as you would think...especially the way I will parallel this with the way some sources operate.
Also, don't think that if you are on the boards and a .gov IP doesn't come up you are alright...or an e-mail you get that isn't .gov. One of the largest users of government grant funding to conduct investigations are universities. Yes, .edu's can be a big threat...and since there are countless upon countless members who use .edu's from school that use the boards, are you safe in just checking an IP addy? No. Also, state governments many times contract their internet providers from regular ole internet providers you and I use. So, if you see something that comes from AOL or MSN, etc...still, don't feel safe.
