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If it shares the same IP, this gives you plausible deniability for all kinds of things.
by ttul 5y ago
If it shares the same IP, this gives you plausible deniability for all kinds of things.
- floatingatoll 5y agoThey can distinguish whether it was your traffic or hotspot traffic at the billing layer. That doesn’t necessarily mean they can at a legal level, but I wouldn’t depend on this for protection against govt/legal investigations. > The Cox Hotspots data stream does not impact your home network data stream, so it will not impact your household's data usage or speeds. The usage and activities of guest users are associated with the guests’ accounts and therefore do not impact you.
- ugjka 5y agoThey are not that stupid
- tdhz77 5y agoThis^^, I’ve seen thousands of cases in federal court in the US. It’s amazing how many people think talking in code through text will make it so they don’t get into trouble. On the contrary, they are knowingly committing a crime and the evidence usually proves it. “Deniability” of leaving your computer open so that anybody can download something is within this realm of absurd. Government isn’t that stupid.
- thegeomaster 5y agoYeah, this happens a lot with programmers who see law as some kind of program which is supposed to perfectly determine what's a crime and what isn't. Then they come up with all kinds of "workarounds" where you're not violating the letter of the law directly. Like, no buddy, a judge will take one look at that and send you to the clink.
- icedchai 5y agoIt doesn't. There is a Cox hotspot near me (CoxWiFi access point) and it's basically a VPN that puts you on an isolated network. It is routed to Virginia, if I recall.