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posted by CoolHand on Monday October 09 2017, @02:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-as-safe-as-you-think dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

A Massachusetts man was arrested late last week on suspicion of conducting a cyberstalking campaign against a female former roommate, her friends, and family. Court documents reveal that logs, obtained by the FBI from privacy service PureVPN, helped the prosecution. Until now, PureVPN had always maintained it carried no logs - almost.

[...] if one drills down into the PureVPN privacy policy proper, one sees the following:

Our servers automatically record the time at which you connect to any of our servers. From here on forward, we do not keep any records of anything that could associate any specific activity to a specific user. The time when a successful connection is made with our servers is counted as a ‘connection’ and the total bandwidth used during this connection is called ‘bandwidth’. Connection and bandwidth are kept in record to maintain the quality of our service. This helps us understand the flow of traffic to specific servers so we could optimize them better.

This seems to match what the FBI says – almost. While it says it doesn’t log, PureVPN admits to keeping records of when a user connects to the service and for how long. The FBI clearly states that the service also captures the user’s IP address too. In fact, it appears that PureVPN also logged the IP address belonging to another VPN service (WANSecurity) that was allegedly used by Lin to connect to PureVPN.

I think I'll stick with PrivateInternetAccess who've had their lack of logging stand up in court.

Source: https://torrentfreak.com/purevpn-logs-helped-fbi-net-alleged-cyberstalker-171009/


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 09 2017, @10:36PM (1 child)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 09 2017, @10:36PM (#579472) Homepage Journal

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @04:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @04:59AM (#579636)

    ...now I'm visualizing goatse with half an onion dead centre.

    Ugh.

    Did you have to do that?

    My mental eyes are watering.