• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    So they ask the VPN provider to provide the origin address of the VPN logins, and come back to a cell phone (network) provider

    A non-logging VPN provider should not be able to assist with this step.

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      7 hours ago

      Perhaps. I’ve always wondered if the VPN providers were playing games with semantics. It would be possible to not log, but still see events happening in real-time and report those. In the IT world “logging” is the capturing of events that occurred in the past. “Monitoring” is seeing events that are happening in real-time".

      So a request could come in saying “when we see activity from IP X let person Y know what is happening”. The VPN provider would technically not be logging, but the activity of the user could still be tracked. Again, I’m not saying this is what happens at any of these VPN companies, I’m simply posing a series of events that could occur while the VPN companies statements would still be factual to their advertising claims yet result in the outcomes that customers specifically want to avoid. This is just a thought exercise. I have no evidence any of this happened.