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Hacking and Security => Anonymity and Privacy => : Satori October 07, 2011, 05:28:00 PM
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There are dozens of VPN providers, many of which carry marketing on their web pages which suggests that the anonymity of their subscribers is a top priority. But is it really? Do their privacy policies stand up to scrutiny? We decided to find out.Over the past two weeks TorrentFreak contacted some of the leading, most-advertised, and most talked about VPN providers in the file-sharing and anonymity space. Rather than trying to decipher what their often-confusing marketing lingo really means, we asked them two direct questions instead
1. Do you keep ANY logs which would allow you or a 3rd party to match an IP address and a time stamp to a user of your service? If so, exactly what information do you hold?
2. Under what jurisdictions does your company operate and under what exact circumstances will you share the information you hold with a 3rd party?This article does not attempt to consider the actual quality of service offered by any listed provider, nor does it consider whether any service is good value for money. All we are interested in is this: Do they live up to claims that they provide a 100% anonymous service? So here we go, VPN providers in the file-sharing space first.
The article can be found here: http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/ (http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/)
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While many of these providers say they don't keep logs, when the shit actually hits the fan and lawyers and cops swarm the provider, it often ends up being a completely different situation. You have to control your own privacy, don't trust a single party to protect you. If you do, be aware of the risk you're taking and that you're putting all of it on that one person/company.
If you want to hold privacy closer to yourself and trust a network which is resistant to "malicious" proxy servers, check out the Tor Project (torproject.org)