Comment on VPNs Can’t Make You Anonymous Online. Don’t Be Fooled by Anyone Who Says They Can
Templa@beehaw.org 12 hours agoHow can you be sure your VPN provider isn’t logging or getting information about your traffic?
Comment on VPNs Can’t Make You Anonymous Online. Don’t Be Fooled by Anyone Who Says They Can
Templa@beehaw.org 12 hours agoHow can you be sure your VPN provider isn’t logging or getting information about your traffic?
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 6 hours ago
You can’t be sure, but you can use providers and exit nodes that are based in places hostile to whoever you are trying to protect against.
Also, functional anonymity can exist by different entities having different pieces of data that together would de-anonymize you, but who are unlikely to ever intersect. A good example of this is DMCA requests: if a copyright holder sees a US IP address on a residential Comcast IP, they’re going to file a court case and get a subpoena for the subscriber info. If they see a Hong Kong IP from a co-lo datacenter who would need to cooperate to tell them who owned that IP at that time, they’re not going to even bother because they don’t know how to even start filing a court case in China, and if your VPN has too much data it won’t even matter because no one will even have contacted them.
It all depends on your threat model.