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Briefly, law requires establishing probable cause, that _one_ specific person has done specific things, to underwrite search warrant. VPN IPs are shared between
by sdrinf 3y ago
Briefly, law requires establishing probable cause, that _one_ specific person has done specific things, to underwrite search warrant. VPN IPs are shared between users, meaning any one of the ~X00 users sharing a single ip could be doing any number of things at the same time.
- formerly_proven 3y agoBriefly, non-US jurisdictions are not US jurisdictions and have different standards and procedures.
- fareesh 3y agoIf an app phones home at 11:00 AM and the illegal act is at 11:01 AM wouldn't it narrow down the list of suspects considerably?
- robjan 3y agoNo, because at the same time x number of users have their apps phoning home with what appears to be the same IP
- ementally 3y agoHow can you be sure that you are the only one in your country not connected to the same IP address provided by a VPN server?
- therein 3y agoWell if they have ISP flow logs, that'll be trickier because it will enable very granular inspection of the traffic and the timings of that traffic. However if they are trying to cast a wide net and inquire Google and other service providers for it, that will lead to a lot of collusions and they won't be able to tell it is from country A because it is from the VPN.
- fareesh 3y agoAre you sure x is sufficiently large?