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VPN Firm that Claims Zero Logs Policy Leaks 20 Million User Logs

posted by martyb on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:40AM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:

VPN firm that claims zero logs policy leaks 20 million user logs:

The VPN company in the discussion is a Hong Kong-based UFO VPN owned by Dreamfii HK Limited.

[...] Discovered by researchers from Comparitech on July 1st, 2020; the exposure occurred due to the database hosted on an Elasticsearch cluster being left without any password.

[...] Worth 894 GB, the data allegedly included plaintext passwords, IP addresses, timestamps of user connections, session tokens, information of the device, and OS being used along with geographical information in the form of tags.

[...] This, as Comparitech has rightly pointed out, goes against the service provider's privacy policy and the promises of a zero log policy it has communicated to its users:

UFO VPN does not collect, monitor, or log any traffic or use of its Virtual Private Network service, under any circumstances, on any platform.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @08:23PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @08:23PM (#1023477)
    Would it be possible to create a legal entity and an AI to run a VPN (or other ) service where there's no actual human in charge officially and legally?

    Customers/users are charged to cover expenses and make a profit. The AI would hire consultants + lawyers to do stuff like "reproduce" aka make other independent similar entities - because inevitably the parent entity would eventually get corrupt (consultants or lawyers screw up or successfully betray the "trust" despite safeguards) or "die" via some accident etc.

    For bonus points have the AIs pick mates and share "genes" (sex) when reproducing.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @10:21PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @10:21PM (#1023527)

    The very act of creating a legal entity requires making some other legal entity responsible for its actions. And unlike the Earth, it cannot be turtles all the way down.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:06AM (1 child)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:06AM (#1023614) Journal
      There's only so much responsibility one can hold. To use the classic Skynet example, how much responsibility can a long dead US military hold for the creation of an AI superpower bent on human extinction? You going to sue someone?

      • (Score: 2) by fraxinus-tree on Monday July 20 2020, @07:15AM

        by fraxinus-tree (5590) on Monday July 20 2020, @07:15AM (#1024001)

        You don't have to try that hard.

        There is still quite a few jurisdictions where one can create a company A owned by company B which is in turn is owned by company A.

        Usually done for debt "management", but you can use your imagination.