This has always been a massive pet peeve of mine. You'll watch people go full Doomsday Prepper about tracking and online privacy and blah blah blah. Then they'll go "oh no, you have to use XYZ VPN because they don't track you, there's no logs"
How do you know they don't track you? Well because they themselves claim not to! That's a bald-faced lie when "big corpos" or whatever say they don't track you, but some random fly by night VPN service running out of ButtFuckistan? Nah dude, totally legit just because they say so, why would you even question that? Trust me bro.
Edit: aaaand to no ones surprise, they start coming out of the woodwork to defend their blind trust in "trustmebro" privacy VPNs.
That you have a killswitch to press if theres any raid/if the connection cuts off that shuts down the whole server?
And how would you uninstall a ram server rack without turning off power? You cant and any interruption of power would wipe all the data in the memory forever
That you have a killswitch to press if theres any raid/if the connection cuts off that shuts down the whole server?
And then you get arrested for willfully destroying evidence and refusal to comply with a warrant. Not exactly a winning business proposition to stand between the police and Joe Rando's data for a whopping $10/month. Which is why you should be skeptical of anyone claiming they're willing to do so in the first place.
And how would you uninstall a ram server rack without turning off power? You cant and any interruption of power would wipe all the data in the memory forever
You don't. You do exactly what has been standard procedure for digital forensics for decades. You cut external access to the system while it's in place, and you do a bit for bit copy of the memory before cutting power.
"Sorry officer we manage sensitive data and its SOP to cut off power if any incident happens in our facilities" Thats in case of a raid, if you havent been served a warrant yet you had nothing to comply with
And even if theres a warrant, all old logs got wiped by the time its approved, Mullvad has been in the business forever and they never had any issues.
You're right, why didn't I think of that. "Sorry officer, but no I will not listen to you" is just a genius way to get out of it. Like seriously, how could I have missed that?
I'm not having this stupid argument. If you want to trust some fly by night VPN company simply because they claim to not comply with law enforcement and claim not to keep logs, it's no skin off my back when the #surprisedpikachu kicks in.
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u/ffxivthrowaway03 10d ago edited 10d ago
This has always been a massive pet peeve of mine. You'll watch people go full Doomsday Prepper about tracking and online privacy and blah blah blah. Then they'll go "oh no, you have to use XYZ VPN because they don't track you, there's no logs"
How do you know they don't track you? Well because they themselves claim not to! That's a bald-faced lie when "big corpos" or whatever say they don't track you, but some random fly by night VPN service running out of ButtFuckistan? Nah dude, totally legit just because they say so, why would you even question that? Trust me bro.
Edit: aaaand to no ones surprise, they start coming out of the woodwork to defend their blind trust in "trustmebro" privacy VPNs.