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You 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 ad
by nwh 14y ago
You 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.