i think he refered vb.org to vbulletin itself, as in this last post he refer to his own ISP and government ... so i think he is asking for a solution, not only here... anyway... this is possible, even if mostlikely useless...

I thought https had little or nothing to do with the software. I thought it was all taken care of on the server side by apache (or whatever) and when it was setup you just called https:// instead of http://

http:// is often hardcoded into bits of software (inc vbulletin).

Well, don't do that. I mean, what if the FBI or some corporate secret obsessed company wanted to use vBulletin? I'm not saying vBulletin should go nuts about such stuff, but not hard-coding http when a simple $protocal variable would do seems common sense. Of course, this is really something that should go to vb.com, and has nothing to do with vb.org...

Is this a joke? Dude, people post their addresses and full info on the net founded by google, i doubt anyone is gona steal your forum identity. :)

I hate to see a good quote attributed to that hack...

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you." - Woody Allen, Take The Money and Run (1969)

Why the hell are you even on the internet? You do know Paul and other staff members can see your IP, with your IP find your location and ISP. Also if they had the correct software and hardware, they could get your exact location of your internet connection (house) then spy on you. I mean heck, while your here its even possible that a few worms were sent to your computer.

Since your a security freak, may i ask what do you have for the following: Firewall, antivirus, house security and what browser do you use?

I am not harrassing you, im trying to wake you up and find out things for myself.

You can use a proxy server to hide your IP. Many people do, and we're not nuts. I look around at a world where 33 students got shot to death yesterday, and I know that I have no idea who I am really dealing with when I argue with people online. Nothing personal, but I'd really rather not have you be able to google earth my house from my IP :p I've also grown pretty careful about my email - I have a 'spam' email account I use to register pretty much everywhere because any 'real' account gets picked up by spam crawlers in no time flat.

Using a proxy wont hide your IP, infacts its less secure. The person who owns the proxy, he has access to log everything almost, he can take track of your cookies, ip and more!

Depends on the proxy server. Most 'good' ones will hide your ip address though.

If you're really paranoid you may want to consider using Tor or one of the other similar projects. It isn't 100% secure but it's about as close as you're going to get. Too bad it's not very dial-up friendly.