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The confidentiality required by businesses with billion dollar contracts is far removed from the confidentiality required by a VPN user. Do you think Ebay or Ub
by Last5Digits 4y ago
The confidentiality required by businesses with billion dollar contracts is far removed from the confidentiality required by a VPN user. Do you think Ebay or Uber would care that their web traffic can be linked to them?
Even in the low stakes situation of a lawyer going after you for torrenting, I see a high risk of a cloud provider giving out your information. They'd just have to reveal who rented your VPS instance.
Not only would companies not care about discretion when it comes to catching torrenters, they especially would not care for confidentiality about who rented their infrastructure.
- maven29 4y agoThey serve competitor workloads as well, I'd say they there is a huge incentive for cloud providers to put in backdoors if they could get away with it. They are deeply entrenched in rigid processes and rigorous compliance audits. If torrenting is the basis of your risk profile, seedboxes are a lot more safer.
- Last5Digits 4y agoBut you don't need a backdoor. Log incoming and outgoing traffic from a VPS and you'll have all the information you need to deanonymize you. This is something that they will probably do as a policy, simply because "AWS used for torrenting, storing and seeding CP" is a headline that can do far more damage to their business than some logging ever will.