Security - Other Users

[reitou223 0]

Hi,

So I am currently using AirVPN as my primary VPN provider. My question is about other users. What if another user starts downloading pornography with underage people in it? The server would have to be logged then to catch the sick prick. What about hacking and what not how can you identify these users and expel them from your network. I use a VPN for simple security on public wifi yet I don't want to have any association with these sick and destructive kinds of users!

How is it safe to use an IP which has been shares with thousands of people?

[Staff 9972]

How is it safe to use an IP which has been shares with thousands of people?

Hello!

Perfectly safe. Since IPv4 addresses shortage hundreds of ISPs in the world use NAT and shared IP-addresses. Every day tens of millions of citizens in the world share IPv4 addresses. For the VPN anonymity layer, sharing an IP address is a very significant advantage.

Kind regards

[reitou223 0]

But if someone hacks or downloads child porn on your service how is it the servers don't get shut down. I don't want to occupy the same ip address as a pedophile or a hacker.

Basically I know you don't keep logs but surely law enforcement can force you to under the above circumstances??

[reitou223 0]

I can't seem to see my own replies to this thread ?

[Staff 9972]

But if someone hacks or downloads child porn on your service how is it the servers don't get shut down. I don't want to occupy the same ip address as a pedophile or a hacker.

Basically I know you don't keep logs but surely law enforcement can force you to under the above circumstances??

Hello!

Liability exceptions and limitations for mere conduits of data is a stronghold in western legislation and an essential pre-requisite for nowadays Internet very existance. It is a concept which was born in the Roman Empire with the cursus publicus (the first efficient mail system open to the empire employees and rich private citizens), according to which the carrier of mails, money and objects can not be held liable for the behavior of the sender or the content of the items. It is the very same principle, translated to interconnected networks, for which phone companies are not shut down when a crime is committed through their network, or for which postmen and directors of a mail service are not prosecuted for the infringing content of the packages they deliver. This concept is enshrined, specifically for the Internet, in EU, USA and Singapore legal framework.

If you don't want to "occupy" the same IPv4 address of an infringing node (which is anyway a non-problem at all, why should you be worried about it?), nowadays there are not many options. One of them is not using the Internet at all, which is of course a not viable solution. Another one is setting up your own node with a dedicated IPv4 address (some ISPs that still have free IPv4 adresses offer this service, as well as all dedicated servers hosting/housing providers) and renounce to any anonymity layer.

Kind regards

[Staff 9972]

I can't seem to see my own replies to this thread ?

Hello!

We have been forced by trolls to put the forum under moderation. When you enter a message, a human moderator must first approve it before it becomes accessible to anyone.

Kind regards

[reitou223 0]

Can't the FBI or equivalent in your country log your servers without your consent or simply force you to log without disclosing?