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As there is nothing remotely illegal or even nefarious about using a VPN, one can assume we've gone over the falls. The United States and its financial system
by alrs 13y ago
As there is nothing remotely illegal or even nefarious about using a VPN, one can assume we've gone over the falls.
The United States and its financial system exist to serve the interests of some truly disgusting people.
- dhimes 13y agoI so fucking hope you are overreacting, but I fear that you are not.
- gregschlom 13y agoNo need for the aggressive tone. And you're overreacting just as much to his/her reply.
- teawrecks 13y agoI don't think either of then sounded like they were overacting, damnit!
- dangrossman 13y ago> As there is nothing remotely illegal or even nefarious about using a VPN There's a reason every risk scoring tool for e-commerce highly weighs whether the connection is from a VPN or other type of proxy. Using a VPN is not illegal or nefarious, but public anonymizing VPNs (as opposed to private VPN-into-the-company-network VPNs) are used for illegal and nefarious purposes to a huge degree. The volume of fraud occurring through them is measured in billions of dollars a year.
- chadaustin 13y ago(Responding because I saw you were instantly downvoted, even though you provided factual information.) Absolutely correct. Fraud scoring systems are heuristic. Your fraud score is positively and negatively correlated with a large number of behaviors, almost all of which are benign by themselves, but in aggregate can be used to predict fraudulent behavior.
- happywolf 13y agoAny references on "The volume of fraud occurring through them is measured in billions of dollars a year."?
- jnbiche 13y agoAnd this sudden change in the state of affairs would explain why Payson "was complying with an urgent requirement from Visa and Mastercard to stop accepting payments for VPN services" with a two day window? Or are you addressing some other issue?
- sixothree 13y agoIt sounds to me like you're confusing two very different things - paying for a VPN for the sake of privacy confused with using a vpn to make purchases.
- _mulder_ 13y agoYes, but might the people using VPNs to make fraudulent purchases not use fraudulent details to buy the VPN in the first place?