Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise

Re:Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise by ziddoap on Thursday February 20, 2025 @09:32AM (#43115110)

If the abuse is serious enough, pursue legal avenues. Otherwise, these types of companies shouldn't be unmasking users based on a random persons assertion that someone is bad. That would be an abuse vector itself.

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Re:Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise by VladVladikoff on Thursday February 20, 2025 @09:37AM (#43115180)

I am not asking them to. I am asking them to do a better job of bad actor detection and banning. Their current stance seems to be “ignore all packets, log nothing”. In my opinion they should be doing some amount of AI based abuse detection. This should be possible without violating user privacy.

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Re:Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise by echoangle on Thursday February 20, 2025 @10:42AM (#43116048)

How would you get training data for the AI without logging packets?

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Re:Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise by Technetium on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:54PM (#43122758)

AI is not the answer for most things, but it's especially not the answer for this. Basic packet filtering is all there should ever be.

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