Privacy Policy states that acquiring our IP address is necessary for the service to function. Is there another way?

[twelph 1]

I love your VPN service and use it every day, I was just wondering if there was an alternative option to the servers viewing our IP address while we are connected. I ran across this forum post, and was wondering if I could get your opinion on it:

 

https://cryptostorm.org/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=6332 

[Staff 10331]

Hello!

 

Knowing your IP address is inevitable at some stage, otherwise there would be no possible communication in any way. However the IP address is not stored (or even less sent to third-parties!) in any way, so it is lost as soon as you disconnect. By the way, you can hide your real IP address even to our servers by connecting for example OpenVPN over TOR. We don't block TOR nodes, of course, neither on the web site nor on any VPN server.

 

About the post you linked: yes, we send OpenVPN logs to /dev/null - it is not correct what they state about stats in this case, so our system looks slightly more secure in this respect because they do not send logs to /dev/null. Since we do it, we cut the main problem at its root. Instead they chose to run an OpenVPN version re-compiled by themselves and very correctly disclosed the diff source code, an interesting choice and also a necessary one for peer reviews, but we do not need this complication for the aforementioned reasons. Our solution provides as well the not secondary advantage for which we can count on global peer reviews on security of OpenVPN mainline.

 

Kind regards

[twelph 1]

Thanks for the detailed response