Are VPN safe or not?

Posted by Andy at 8:34 PM

There are many VPN services out there but not all of them are safe because they LOG your activity. This logging of your activity is what makes you vulnerable to people and institutions that you do not want to be vulnerable to. The logged information points directly to you and whether that information is obtained by sniffing, or an outright court order by the authorities governing that area, it doesn't mater; once they have your IP and connect it to a piece of copyright material, you get a letter from your ISP or sometimes worse.

Further, the logs these companies keep, they keep for various amounts of time. Some keep logs for only 15 minutes, some for hours, some a day, some say 3 or 4 days, others say 30 days, 60, 90 and some indefinitely.

Only a very few say they don't keep logs but of those few if you read the TOS (terms of service) you'll find that the docs show they are clearly lying, saying if they find you breaking the rules (copyright infringement etc.) they will stop your service without any refund; some even say they will report you to governing authorities Holy Carpola!

So the only way to keep completely safe using VPN is to be with a VPN company that does not log anything that has to do with your activities. This way even if governing authorities ask for all info regarding any persons account or IP, or even raid the VPN company, since there are no logs, no information can be obtained!
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