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VPN providers keep logs even when they say they don't, your browser transmits an often unique fingerprint, vulnerabilities allow disclosing real ip, and so on.
by mnx 9y ago
VPN providers keep logs even when they say they don't, your browser transmits an often unique fingerprint, vulnerabilities allow disclosing real ip, and so on. Even darknet market operators with all the reasons for trying to be anonymous and paranoid get outed. It's just a matter of how much resources it takes.
- nukeop 9y agoWhy would a VPN provider disclose customer info to a random third party? Why would you assume that the majority of VPN providers lie to customers? Why do you think people who want to stay anonymous don't know how to throw off browser fingerprinting?
- drewmol 9y ago>Why would a VPN provider disclose customer info to a random third party? Money >Why would you assume that the majority of VPN providers lie to customers? Money. There's no way to confirm their claims, and if logging+selling data= more money, there's a reasonable assumption that is indeed the case. >Why do you think people who want to stay anonymous don't know how to throw off browser fingerprinting? Even if they do, it's difficult, ever changing, and easy to slip up.
- oarsinsync 9y agoVPN providers often don't run their own networks, but instead run on other ISP networks. Those underlying ISPs have data that can be used to correlate (with a scary amount of accuracy in a remarkably short space of time) your flow to the VPN server against a flow from the VPN server to a remote host. Without exaggerating, lives have been saved through this technique. Once the technology exists for one purpose, it can be repurposed very easily.
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