Read through the answers on here for more details:
https://www.quora.com/Can-government-agencies-track-one-when-using-a-VPN
What's that video proving? I may have missed something, but didn't hear anything about internet or IP Address explicitly mentioned?
Also, if the FBI wants to track you down for something that you posted, they can track you down. People leave little clues all of the time without knowing or realizing it. A VPN in it and of itself is not going to stop them. An IP address is just one of the methods that they can use.
because they log your IP address
Point? People are overly paranoid about IP address logging due to VPN marketing gimmicks. Ever go on IRC?
(Don't get me wrong, VPNs definitely do have their uses and I'm not knocking them as a scam. You should definitely get and use a VPN if you can.)
No. I spent about 1 day on /b/ before Trump was ever even a political figure and said "fuck this" then bailed, never to return.
And yeah, I see a lot of the racial and anti-semitic stuff that you're talking about the rare times that a thread gets linked here. That being said, remember that you're conditioned to Facebook and Twitter moderating and policing content like that. I'd argue that we've reached a point where message boards such as this and 4Chan are considered the "deep web" (note - NOT dark web, yes, there is a difference). Having been on the internet for years, that's something that you see all the time on those kinds of sites and forums. If the mods don't deal with it, you just eventually learn to just tune it out and block/ignore those types if the mods don't do anything about it. (In other words, yes, it's seemingly rampant there - but I'd argue that that's just an unfortunate trait of the internet as opposed to just 4chan itself).
Sorry you're going through this. If you were fired already, there's literally nothing stopping you from going to the DoL for what you said they were doing that's illegal. I would do it.
And the thing is, I have a degree in this so I’m more efficient than anyone else in my department.
Ehh, I've seen people in my field with art degrees far more efficient and knowledgable than people with IT degrees. Point being, degrees and certs != skill or efficiency. Just be careful with having that sort of attitude about it, it can kill certain opportunities. What you said about everything happening for a reason is true; Just don't be a doorstopper for when the doors do open for you.
Because the people behind Parler haven't got an iota of a fucking clue about InfoSec.
If I can authenticate to a service legitimately and run a query to an endpoint that returns unlimited information to me, without any sort of illegitimate exploitation of a vulnerability, I'm simply bypassing their interfaces (which, is against (most) company's TOSs and EULAs, unless you have some sort of developer account or license - but it's not exactly the same thing as hacking or even computer trespass).
The only technical grey area that some strict judge may consider as "hacking," or more specifically, as "computer trespass" is the spoofing of the X-Forwarded-For headers that was used to bypass the 429s for Rate-Limiting errors.
But, even then, that's a stretch.
It wasn't really a breach. It was a scrape of publically available data. That in it and of itself is fine, simple enough, and perfectly legal (unless you live within the EU, but meh at this point).
The question, however, becomes if what she did and is promoting can be construed as aiding and abetting targeted harassment, doxxing and attacks against the people that she's leaking out info on. I think it is - especially if someone innocent and totally unrelated is targeted, mis-labelled and hung out to dry.
There's also numerous ethics questions about what she did. As someone who used to - we'll say hang out with and talk to - not-so-whitehat groups and people, those types always had some sort of moral code about the things that they did. You didn't touch someone or something for their politics.
Professionals have standards.
Apparently, MSM doesn't like their stuff being archived anymore. Huh. Go figure.
I actually think that you're gonna start seeing prosecutors start dropping some of these charges against people, including the supposed organization charges.
(Don't get me wrong, anyone who assaulted an officer or stole something should definitely be charged - but I think that the dust is gonna largely start settling.)