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Can user account information really be called "logs?" This article mislead me into thinking PureVPN kept activity logs, but the end of the article makes it soun
by lyk 9y ago
Can user account information really be called "logs?" This article mislead me into thinking PureVPN kept activity logs, but the end of the article makes it sound like they just store an email address. Did I misread?
- jstanley 9y agoI read it to mean that he accessed his GMail account while using PureVPN, which really raises more questions than it answers because PureVPN should have no way to know which GMail account is being accessed, regardless of what logs they keep.
- lyk 9y agoOr, you know, Google told the authorities. All I see is that PureVPN keeps the user's email on file.
- snark42 9y ago> All I see is that PureVPN keeps the user's email on file. Also login time, connecting IP and logout time. So no traffic is stored, just that you logged in and were connected for X amount of time.
- philtar 9y agoYou're alleging that PureVPN decrypts communication between the user and gmail. That's an even bigger claim than the article.
- jstanley 9y agoI'm not alleging that. I'm closer to alleging that the article is wrong.
- Steeeve 9y agoIt seems pretty simple. PVPN keeps logs of when end users connect. Google keeps logs of which IPs access accounts. Google discloses that the victims account was accessed by a set of IPs. Those IPs are known to belong to PureVPN. A list of people connecting to those IPs as clients is requested by the FBI. The connection logs validate their suspicions.