Being investigated by the FBI

everybody is full of good ideas , that would be interesting though! Wonder what that would do for me?

 

ask them if they can use ur IT knowhow and give u a job as a undercover IT technician or something

 

you know what, i was thinking about that. It was funny when the agent first contacted me, he said he has several questions and wants to talk to me regarding my "internet expertise", man my mind ran wild thinking about what he wanted to talk to me about. I should have told him im for hire

 

Hey man that would be awesome wudnt it?
also do some reading on data recovery and encryption. that sort of stuff is very handy for these type of jobs!!

 

I have a proxy site up as well. I may change my mind about leaving it up.

 

What I would do, is what one person up there mentioned.

Expose the hell out of yourself to the media, you have a story, now use it to make you famous like every body else in the media world.

 

media exposure will pretty much put a proxy site out of business, at least if the URL is mentioned

 

Quickly make a disclaimer for your proxies lol!

 

What information do you have to prove such a claim?

 

I turned off apache logging for about 99% of my sites a long time ago. They can ask what they want, I literally can't help them even if I wanted to.

 

The legal concerns have kept me from opening a proxy site. There is too little financial upside and many possible ways for it to go wrong - for me. Others may have less to risk and more to gain, but for me it is not worth it.

threats, criminal behavior, child porn, etc

 

Wow, negative feedback with the reason:

"You have given horribly bad advice. Stay away from legal threads if you are clueless."

Can anyone support this claim? I thought my advice was somewhat helpful...

 

the FBI must have pretty stupid, did they really think someone would send the threat directly from their own IP?

 

Most of your advice was helpful, but in looking at it, this jumps out as really poor advice.

Telling someone "If it's your personal PC, wipe the thing" even though the FBI had already contacted him.

That would qualify as bad advice. Telling someone to destroy potential evidence in a federal investigation is not good advice.

 

you know, even posting a threat thru an proxy is stupid, i can find that person's ip very very easily. Posting a threat is stupid enough, poor distressed school boy is now going to be visited by FBI.

 

Potential evidence? If it's not considered evidence, I personally don't see the harm. He asked for advise, and that's what I would have done, personally. Is that really an offense - wiping your machine and reinstalling OS just because the FBI contacted you?

Oh well - I see the error in reasoning, but that's my opinion and I'm sticken too it

 

lol next i email the special agent