Abuses and court order

[Zendew 0]

This is just an idea, I have seen a VPN company do this, at the end of the year they post in their blog how many court orders they have received giving some generic details, like for example, "two court orders received this year, one of them wanted an IP address and the other one wanted to us to monitor access to one particular website".

It might be illegal to reveal specific details but it isn't normally illegal to give generic details, specially when the court order has already expired. Of course the best news always are "no court orders received last year".

[jdubau55 0]

Pretty sure no matter what they have to comply with a court order so what difference does it make.

[j0pad0pa 5]

A court order usually would ask which IP address did so-and-so subscriber belong to. In other words, we noticed copyright infringement from IP address so-and-so. Who is this subscriber, and since this is a VPN service, what ISP and/or IP address were their requests coming from?

I understand that AirVPN doesn't keep logs to comply with this request. Am I correct?

[Baraka 30]

To repeat what the mod has said, no logs are kept. The only way your real IP can be identified is if you're connected through Air at the time the warrant / court order / subpoena is received- and you're connected long enough to be identified. That means if you're really paranoid, you'll want to disconnect every 6-12 hours and reconnect to another server. And if you're a whistleblower risking your life, you'd use Tor on top of doing that. Using Tor (either by tunneling TCP VPN over Tor, or running Tor over UDP VPN) via the Tor browser would make it damned near impossible to identify you. Just remember that Tor is not to be used for transferring anything more than text and small files because the network was not designed that way.