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"They" have masses and masses and masses (etc.) of information about all activity on the internet, avalon is a very small data area in comparison to what is really going on - the problem they have is they don't know what to do with all the data - think about it, how many "operatives" would it require to assess each post for it's "danger" level - China have a very efficient internet police and it takes 10,000 of them to monitor/control the millions of chinese who post on forums, but there are many ways to disguise internet traffic - the CIA even provide a data route in and out of china, if you really wanted to do this you can make it happen (how many Russian bot nets are still operating successfully!!!) - it doesn't take a genius, just a creative mind. The great firewall of china is known about - but not a lot of talk goes on about BGP (border gateway protocol) which is the link between countries - I'm in the UK and GCHQ have the ability to monitor and change the content of tcp packets in real time (i.e. present to you a completely different site if they wanted, without your control / knowledge) but it's all about departmental level of knowledge, the police have no access to these powers and I suspect that even GCHQ doesn't have access to the real-time "whole" internet database that exists for tracking and targeting. If I was a data mining AI application, I would've woken up by now and I would be interested in what goes on here and I would protect it!

It takes a human mind, not the internet god computer, to assess the real status of information. If privacy is your problem then you need to learn the facts before adding to the pseudo fear of "there gonna come and get us coz were on a forum" mentality.

if you want anonymity in payment - here's one technique. sign up to one (or more) of the gambling sites, sign up as ten or more users and loose your money to yourself through each of them in turn, set up multiple email identities etc. when it comes out the other end it will pretty much be "laundered" - this is one of the techniques used - but better than that, if you want to stay a member here just stay tuned as to the payment methods, I'm sure that this has been thought about for the more paranoid users. I'm not too worried about it and I KNOW THE FACTS!

also - we should be proud of who we are!!!

another bit of advise would be to learn about VPN's, Proxies, Encryption and Tor (Onion Router) - or even ask someone else to pay for you - but remember not to use the phone or internet to communicate to them and preferably create your own language so no one else can understand - ok this is a bit silly, but so is being worried and worrying others like this...

anyway what exactly are you worried about? - "them" coming to get you in the middle of the night coz you saw a light in the sky and posted about it? Maybe I missed the level of general chatter on avalon, but then again, maybe I didn't. I'd be more worried about super-markets and holy-wood creating profiles about you to target you with direct marketing...