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Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents?

From Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.ubuntu, alt.windows7.general, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents?
Date 2015-03-29 13:23 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <mf8ud3$5t2$8@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 08:30:10 -0400, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

> Per Maraela J.:
>>Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously?
>>http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-services-take-your-anonymity-
seriously-2014-edition-140315/
>>
>>They asked the VPN services these questions:
>>1. Do you keep ANY logs which would allow you to match an IP-address and
>>a time stamp to a user of your service? If so, exactly what information
>>do you hold and for how long?
> 
> Am I losing my mind or does this quote not make sense?
> 
> "2. We operate out of the US which is one of the few, if only, countries
> without a mandatory data retention law. We explored several other
> jurisdictions with the help of our professional legal team, and the US
> is still ideal for privacy-based VPN services."


Essentially, they're saying "we can set it up and are NOT required to 
keep extensive logs for the NSA[1]".  Unlike certain other jurisdictions, 
the only "mandatory" logs here are the 72[2] hour logs that you're 
keeping anyway so that you can diagnose the cause of a problem when you 
start having network issues.


[1]They don't have to, NSA is logging everything already ;).

[2] for some value of "72"

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Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 04:10 +0000
  Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-28 00:20 -0400
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 05:49 +0000
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-28 02:44 -0400
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 16:58 +0000
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-28 15:40 -0400
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 00:53 +0000
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 01:44 +0000
          Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 02:18 +0000
            Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 03:07 +0000
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 01:51 +0000
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 22:41 +0000
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Mel Bourne <noabode@none.zero> - 2015-03-29 06:10 +0700
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-03-28 19:53 -0400
  Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "The_Chris" <TheChris@nospam.gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 07:32 +0000
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2015-03-28 06:44 -0300
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2015-03-28 08:10 -0400
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 15:42 +0000
          Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2015-03-28 10:45 -0500
          Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> - 2015-03-28 16:53 +0000
          Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2015-03-29 08:30 -0400
            Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2015-03-29 13:23 +0000
              Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2015-03-29 12:59 -0400
                Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 18:07 +0000
                Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 15:06 -0400
                Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2015-03-29 14:15 -0500
            Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-29 17:39 +0000
            Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> - 2015-03-29 16:40 -0700
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-28 15:12 -0400
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2015-03-29 16:43 -0300
          Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-30 03:08 +0000
            Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-30 10:04 +0000
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 15:40 +0000
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Mel Bourne <noabode@none.zero> - 2015-03-29 05:36 +0700
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "The_Chris" <TheChris@nospam.gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 08:28 +0000
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Mel Bourne <noabode@none.zero> - 2015-03-29 18:08 +0700
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Buster Friendly <lah@de.da.ru.ru> - 2015-03-29 08:52 -0400
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-03-29 09:22 -0400

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