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Behind an IP-address shared by many, I'd say you're pretty anonymous unless you give out your personal details. Would you like to explain why you think otherwis
by Zirro 14y ago
Behind an IP-address shared by many, I'd say you're pretty anonymous unless you give out your personal details. Would you like to explain why you think otherwise?
- nwh 14y agoYou are giving your real identity to a company that claims not to keep a log of your actions. As far as I'm aware, some of these providers give out unique IP addresses, or at least ones that aren't used by more than a handful of people. At any rate, determined law enforcement can pressure a provider into logging incoming connections. I wager that happens quite often. As another commenter suggested, they could all be honeypots. If I was going to trust my life to the anonymity of my data transfer, the last service I would want to be using is a VPN.
- Zirro 14y agoIf you assume the things you listed are going on at all VPN-services, I don't see how they supply "privacy" either. When it comes to law enforcement, I suppose there are differences in which approach they take depending on where the VPN-service is located. If law enforcement did what you suggest frequently in the country where I live, it would be presented as a scandal and would be the death of the VPN-service in question. Of course, you must choose a service you trust to not actually keep logs, and give out non-unique IP-adresses. However, if I lived in a country where I could not trust my government, I agree with you, I would avoid VPN-services located there.
- nwh 14y agoThey protect data in transit. If I use someone else's network my data is visible to them, no so much if I use a VPN.