Come accross a nice lil list of IP ranges that all aussies should bock if they are worried about police and here they are...

Australian Federal Police : 61.88.120.0 - 61.88.255.255
Australian Department of Defence : 131.180.0.0 - 131.185.255.255
Telecom Australia Research Laboratories : 137.147.0.0 - 137.147.255.255
Australia Government Dept. : 152.91.0.0 - 152.91.255.255
Australian Department of Defence : 160.64.0.0 - 160.64.255.255
Western Aust. Police Dept. : 165.187.0.0 - 165.187.255.255
Australian Federal Police : 168.152.0.0 - 168.152.255.255
Australian Computing+Commincations Institute : 192.100.00.0 - 192.100.255.255
Australian Institue of Criminology : 192.190.0.0 - 192.190.255.255
Australian Army Support Agency : 192.251.0.0 - 192.251.255.255
Australian Federal Police : 194.117.0.0 - 194.117.255.255
Western Australia Police Service : 194.117.0.0 - 194.117.255.255
Queensland Parrallel Supercomputer Facility - 203.2.0.0 - 203.2.255.255
Australian Data Security Org. : 203.4.0.0 - 203.4.255.255
Australia Telecommunications Austhority : 203.5.0.0 - 203.5.255.255

I also suggest using a java script on ur site to block these IP ranges as well if it has content u dont want LEO to see...wont help if they use 56k tho

i have a hard ware firewall to block most things , but perhaps the admins can block the ranges from the server?

C'mon guys-You think leo would just cruise onto the site plain as day? They'd be using an anonymous proxy server, so admin wouldn't get suss. At least, you'd think so.......but cops can be extremely stupid I suppose
hey chronic, where abouts did you get that list? It's bloody handy, thanks!

Ha Ha Ha

a look out when something like this is found is apreciated but I belive that list is not for blocking it is for spoofing and it is no longer valid in quite a few of those networks ( I know that last bit for a fact )
you need their internet gateway address to block them but to be honest it does no good if they want to watch they watch look into something called "project carnivore " blocking ip ranges is usefull if someone is DoSsing you or scanning your ports ect and for admins to controll visitors unfourtunatly though people with a little experiance will get around this in a matter of secconds great for the " Hack buy color hackers" ( they are the ones who are just following a tutorial they have seen or a programs inbult script like sub7 ) .

The IP ranges you have for the OZ Feds and the W.A. pigs are owned by a university in Portugal:

194.117.0.0 - 194.117.255.255 = Portugal: Universidade de Lisboa

What are our pigs doing there?

Having a good time?

Good one Sir Skunk.

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Hi Luke, how's Perth and how is the g/f going?

Funny thing happed on the way to this topic, I logged in to find OZStoners had deleted my link from their "Please Add your Link" page and edited my profile and delete the planetskunk link there too. ??? what's going on with this site these days

we had problems with the links, they kept pissing off.
even Oz didnt know what was happening but apparently its fixed now.

shit happens

yeah well blame peerguadian for the error in ip range

www.methlabs.org is where u can get it from

but yeah is like with any technology, there is always a flaw, and some1 will always exploit it no1 is safe on the internet these days, even Disney has tried like 20 times today to connect to my pc....why? who knows but if they were serious i think 5 mins max, my pc would be toast...

As someone mentioned earlier, there's not much point going to great efforts to keep the LEO's out. Especially with the IP's... first of all, they'd prefer to use their ip, but if it was blocked or hindered, they'd just organise to get a [legal] tunnel through another, external IP [maybe an associated entity, or an ISP, anybody really as long as it "assists the case"]. Secondly, most of those IP's would probably have little to nothing to do with this situation... Or if they did, it wouldn't be on the investigation end, and they wouldn't use the inside IP blocks to access the... well actually I'm talking out of my arse for that second point, but the first point remains

It's very very easy to fake your technical online identity.. even with social engineering, it just comes down to which party has the most patience, resources, and power to make it work. No prizes for guessing if it's the cops or the backgarden growers

So, if you can't keep them out... give them nothing to find when they get in. The good thing about IP proxies are that they're so easy to find and use. You can protect your online identity a number of ways that would definitely hinder an investigation into your personal situation... [note this doesn't help the site so much, with the points i'm making ].

Ok, a few tips/ideas to protect your identity:

Technical:
- Download and use a proxy cycling program. You get lists of IP Proxies, test them to get the ones that work and are anonymous, and chuck them in the program and make it cycle through them.
- Sign up with a temp/impartial email that can't be traced back to your name/situation anywhere except this forum.
[You could probably think of more, but I want to move onto personal]:

Personal:
- Use only your first name, approximate age [i.e 24, not DOB 17/2/80, etc] and approx location
- Pay attention when you're making posts, uploading images, or talking to people.. You can give a lot of information about your situation and thus who you could be through that sort of stuff. They would just need to lower down the possible suspects of your online identity to your name, then ask your ISP to give out logs, and then "they" are onto you.
- Watch what you put in your profile, where you host your images, etc. Vague stuff in your profile, and host all your [non forum uploaded] pictures with stuff like http://imageshack.us

I don't know about the LEO situation on these forums, but those are solid tips for any sort of online endeavour. If you need help with the proxy's, or further explaining, i and probably a few others on the board would be happy to help you out. It's not difficult, confusing, or tedious stuff, and it helps a lot [unfounded paranoia or not ]

Can anybody explain the deal with the LEO problems on this forum? Who they're going after, what they're doing, or if they're just sort of a Big Brother watcher type entity, checking up on us "just in case".

Was going to post something .. But now i forgot.