Lulzsec fiasco - from HideMyAss VPN provider

Re:Lulzsec fiasco - from HideMyAss VPN provider by thaumaturgy on Friday September 23, 2011 @03:53PM (#3031353)

Three things would have to be recorded in that case: the "you" part of the start & stop times, as well as the times themselves.

I'll take your word for it that he's a decent person. I certainly have no reason to think otherwise. But that doesn't change that his service is recording information that it ought not to be.

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Re:Lulzsec fiasco - from HideMyAss VPN provider by devicenull on Friday September 23, 2011 @07:49PM (#3032035)

The way you typically record this is start time, end time, and IP assigned. It's still not enough to identify what sites or traffic was visited, but when you get a spam email forwarded to you by your upstream provider, it's enough to identify a customer.

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Re:Lulzsec fiasco - from HideMyAss VPN provider by TheCapn on Friday September 23, 2011 @05:23PM (#3031637)

I'm sort of interested how you plan to make profit by billing unknown sources for use of your services...

A responsible business that wishes to comply with tax law and other important parts of making a living needs to have record of income.

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Re:Lulzsec fiasco - from HideMyAss VPN provider by zizee on Friday September 23, 2011 @06:17PM (#3031775)

The service charges a monthly or yearly fee for unlimited data transfer. They don't need to log when you actually use the service.

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Re:Lulzsec fiasco - from HideMyAss VPN provider by thaumaturgy on Friday September 23, 2011 @06:59PM (#3031907)

http://hidemyass.com/vpn/

HMA does not bill by the minute. Nice snark, though.

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