Re:Why You Should Start Using a VPN
by snowwrestler on Thursday September 06, 2012 @11:41AM
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Setting up your own VPN does not solve the traceability problem, unless you happen to find a colo facility that does business in face-to-face cash transactions only.
If you use Linode to set up a VPN, Linode knows your personal and Linode IP, knows when you access their network, and knows your name and billing info. If compelling by warrant they will turn that over to law enforcement.
I setup an own VPN on a dedicated server, payed it prepaid and faked the customer data. This should be really hard to trace back to me.
Re:Why You Should Start Using a VPN
by ricardobeat on Thursday September 06, 2012 @03:00PM
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If your hosting company hasn't saved your access logs for the purchase. Otherwise you just added one step to the process.
Well, they probably log, but maybe you find an open or public wifi to join ;)
also they probably just log URLs and IPs, but not the POST requests.
For the single point of failure issue (which is also valid)... just setup two or more VPNs :) And, in an emergency, you can always fall back to the underlying connection.