Explanation for who I am & what I'm doing here, for those that don't know me personally

First, I'm no hacker or thief of any kind. I steal NOTHING. I COLLECT data. (for 24 years now) I may hang out with hackers & thieves, but I'm not one of them. lol ! Yes, I do know a few of them, some are real nice people, not out to fucking steal shit from poor MF'ers who work for a living, just showing the idiots they are not SECURING the data, they are bitching about getting stolen. Tuff shit, use your head & secure the damn data & you won't have people stealing it & passing it around.

Some of my personal friends, who do what I do, are also not hackers or thieves, they have wives & kids, they work for a living. So, to the cops I say, leave them the fuck alone & make sure you have a "real thief" before fucking with them. lol !

The reason I'm posting this is, I have been contacted by the FBI 'before', they did not 'want me', they just wanted my 'help' plugging a hole in a database. But, I was contacted by a cop in California who had a fucking warrant for me, over "PUBLIC RECORDS". Bull-shit, you could look up everything in that file on Google, it was all PUBLIC RECORDS. He finally got lost & left me alone. I don't post "PERSONAL DATA", it will get the cops up my 79 year old ass & I don't need the bull-shit at my age. lol ! If I see it on any site, OPEN & UNPROTECTED, I COLLECT it for personal use, to LOCATE PEOPLE with. That is ALL I do, LOCATE PEOPLE. I could, if I were rich, pay to get the information, but I'm not rich & it costs me to damn much to use an online database to do what I do. So, rather than pay some "Smuck" (like NPD, who got hacked), I collect & own my own data. Its that simple. Been at it for 24 years now & have never stolen shit from anyone or helped anyone to steal shit either. I avoid morons, especially low-life thieves that go after people who WORK for a living & stalkers too.

So, now you know who the hell I am & what I do. Not being a hacker or a thief, you cops out there can go find the real ones & leave me the hell alone. lol !

I don't care what other people do, its not my problem. I don't approve of them stealing shit from people who WORK for a living, but, its not me who is doing it. I just want to be clear about this, so I don't have to "Splain' to Lucy" a dozen times over. lol !

if you had to guess the total size, how much would you say you have? im just thinking about the cost of self hosting all that and how much you would have spent on drives over the years.

yoooooo

desoxy (your question): I save everything to my own hard drives, I never use any cloud storage, it gets hacked. I also keep my hard drives from having an internet connection, using more than one computer & this one is connected to the internet, but the rest are not. You can't hack a computer that has no internet connection, unless you walk through my door with a gun. lol !

I have well over 20+ hard drives, but only a few on the internet computer, to download shit to, "then, I move it" to my off line hard drives to store it. My big hard drive is 40TB, the smaller ones in the 20TB range & a bunch of smaller ones to carry around with me, that fit in your pockets. I used to travel around & needed them to take with me, but not so much anymore. If I were helping someone at their place, I need my data with me.

Just keep your hard drives off line, save your shit, but not where anyone can get at it. lol ! No internet, no hacking ! Simple !

My newer toys:

I have one of these to carry with me, it has a small fan. Takes two seconds to change a hard drive & its fast.

https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-Enclosure-Aluminum-Compatible-Thunderbolt/dp/B0DNZB7SML

I bought this to clone laptop hard drives. Works great ! Switch them out real fast.

https://sabrent.com/collections/docking-station/products/ds-ufnc

I use this one with a fan & can change hard drives real quick. Works like the other one & it stays hooked up to download things & remove the hard drive real quick & add another. The fan keeps it cool.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Lay-Flat-Docking-EC-DFFN/dp/B013WODZH0?th=1

One thing I forgot to say, ALWAYS back up your shit, make two or more copies of everything you save. WHY ? Because all hard drives take a shit eventually. lol ! I know, I've lost a few over the years & learned my lesson the first time it happened, after that, I backed up EVERYTHING.

Yo, thanks for spillin’ your story.

You can tell I’m hyped about your story and I see the grind you’ve been puttin’ in for ages. I feel the vibe of you being iffy with the cops, especially with the years you got behind you. Your hustle of keepin’ data collectin’ clean from any shady moves is straight up clear and makes sense. If you ever need to chop it up about how to handle that kind of drama, I’m here to listen.

p4n1c , Thanks for the understanding, much appreciated. Half the time, I get morons asking a question & when you give them the answers, you still have to sit there & explain in detail, every word you wrote. lol ! They just don't seem to get it.

The cops think that everyone on here is a thief or a hacker, which is total bull-shit. I know personally some who are "here" (or were on Raid & Breached), that seldom ever say a word, but are not here to rob anyone, or be a hacker, they, like me, COLLECT data, some just to have it & others to use it to help somebody, or to run a business. They do nothing ILLEGAL. They are not criminals.

If it were illegal to have the data, Google, Facebook, Linkedin, Yahoo, Bing, etc, would all be headed to jail for their collection of it. Plus, the companies that SELL "Consumer Data" & "Phone Records". In reality, I do exactly what they do, except I don't SELL a damn thing. I only collect it, to use it to LOCATE people with. Those companies I just mentioned, they "SELL" your shit to anyone with a dollar. I don't sell my data, but I have helped other people I knew, that did something to help other people & were not thieves. Licensed PI's, Lawyers, real estate agents, a guy in Los Angeles who runs a phone bank (the clowns that call you while your eating, to sell you shit. lol !) & a bunch of free adoption searchers & one person who helps coroners & cops, giving names to "unknown dead bodies" or helps find "missing people". Those people, I will help & I know who they are, before I help them. I never help stalkers or thieves, I will look them up & I'm good at that. lol ! I have help cops & coroners myself, solved 4 cases in one night a few years ago, just to have something to do. lol ! (they are the brightest bulbs on the tree at times, or they would have figured it out themselves.)

I also don't give a fuck what anyone else does, I'm not a one man judge or jury, what you do is your business. lol ! Just don't attempt to get me involved in your shit. Not happening !

I forgot to mention, the morons who run the online sites that get hacked, like National Public Data for one.

Plus, these sites too, they collect data & some buy it from Google & Facebook:

BeenVerified: Aggregates information from various public records, social media, and online sources. Offers detailed background checks, social media insights, and vehicle data.

Intelius: Known for providing detailed background checks, with reports including criminal records, address history, and education history.

Instant Checkmate: Specializes in criminal and traffic record searches. The service offers unlimited reports to paying subscribers.

LexisNexis: A professional-grade service that provides access to one of the largest data warehouses of public and non-public records for legal and business purposes.

PeopleFinders: Gathers public information from various sources to provide contact details, criminal records, property ownership, and other data points.

Spokeo: Aggregates personal data from public records, social media, surveys, and other online sources. It offers searches by name, email, phone number, and address.

TruthFinder: Offers comprehensive background reports, including potential criminal records, traffic violations, and social media profiles.

lmao so true especially with the "im here to listen"