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opi is IP tracking people
Mr. Bones:
--- Quote from: K3k0m@n on April 05, 2019, 01:49:26 PM ---so many braindeads in this topicvpns are specifically designed to keep you totally anonymous. so good luck with that
and, again, the location you find from an IP is totally wrong
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The police can go to your ISP and request information regarding your IP, specifically your exact coordinates. And he hasn't been using a VPN ever since he turned that computer on, his actual IP is logged somewhere and they definitely have it. I know this because I got in trouble for doing some stupid stuff regarding the internet freshman year, after a couple months after the incident the police came to me. Even with a VPN, they will get you eventually lol
Conan:
vpn != vps, vpn is a tunnel so you access the internet through some proxy (usually some institution like a college campus, so you can access paid services that they provide to students free). vps is some server you purchase, not necessarily linked to your identity or your ip address (if you pay with a visa gift card, for example), usually in some datacenter somewhere alongside thousands of other servers.
vps is more difficult to track you - police have to issue a warrant to the server host to get your ip address and maybe your isp (which is complicated by the fact that all the traffic from the server comes from the same or similar ip's and may not necessarily be linkable back to a single account), then issue a warrant to various ips for your personal info. generally not worth unless you're some big seeder or something. most vpns on the other hand can and do associate all your traffic with your ip address, and so are able to turn over that info on demand much more easily.
Conan:
also take what i said with a grain of salt - this is my very general understanding of the differences between vps/vpn. i'm not an expert, but what i said should be approximately true.
Pecon:
Basically all half-decent vpn services have no-logging policies. You're basically getting ripped off if they have any logging at all that can trace you back to your account with them.
Conan:
from what it sounds like, mr bones was on his college/school’s vpn, which probably does have a logging policy since they dont want to be liable for allowing pirating. but i guess that makes sense for third party services.