I cannot help but, giggle my ass off at the indignant outrage that has been voiced by various talking heads about VPN service providers like “HideMyAss” devulging information.
From Information Week:
Users of anonymous email services: read your terms of service carefully.
The limits of what some anonymous email services will tolerate became clear last week, over revelations that VPN service provider HideMyAss.com, based in the United Kingdom, turned over information that led to the arrest of 23-year-old Cody Kretsinger in Phoenix.
How thick does someone have to be to think that a company like this will want to be a party to criminal behaviour. Did they really think that they would be safe behind this service? The levels of stupidity in this case are mind numbing.
Privacy advocates, however, are questioning why HideMyAss–as a service that promises to mask identities “behind one of our anonymous IP addresses”–was retaining information that could be later used by anyone to unmask users.
Yes, because they’re not going to go down for someone else’s crime. And really who can honestly blame them?
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“It is very naive to think that by paying a subscription fee to a VPN service you are free to break the law without any consequences,” it said. “This includes certain hardcore privacy services which claim you will never be identified, these types of services that do not cooperate are more likely to have their entire VPN network monitored and tapped by law enforcement, thus affecting all legitimate customers.”
Legitimate uses I can understand. Committing crimes? Yeah, give your head a shake.
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