How viable is government to access a user VPN history without user notice
Hi Experts, my colleagues alleges that VPN are totally untraceable. Yet I tell them that even though one is not traced via the use of a VPN, government can request of the users VPN provider a history of sites visited. And if the VPN is free, it's even more viable for government access their activity logs (some stuff I learn with u guys!). So what is the experts take on this? and How viable is my colleagues statements?
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So is it safe to say that government, with the appropriate authorization, can access the users VPN history via the VPN provider?
So is it safe to say that government, with the appropriate authorization, can access the users VPN history via the VPN provider?
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Thank u Dr. Klahn for the information. You raised some good points made me think.
What do you mean by “Unless all DNS queries go out on the VPN” and “robustly encrypted” and “Firefox in particular is a DNS blabbermouth”? In other words, take some of the popular VPN in the market right now like Private Internet Access, ExpressVPN, NordVPN, etc., do you mean that these VPN products can send DNS info not from its own VPN, not be encrypted and Firefox not respect that a VPN is installed so transmit the DNS info? (a bit confused – I thought that any of these popular VPN would have set these security measured in place in their product).
What do you mean by “Unless all DNS queries go out on the VPN” and “robustly encrypted” and “Firefox in particular is a DNS blabbermouth”? In other words, take some of the popular VPN in the market right now like Private Internet Access, ExpressVPN, NordVPN, etc., do you mean that these VPN products can send DNS info not from its own VPN, not be encrypted and Firefox not respect that a VPN is installed so transmit the DNS info? (a bit confused – I thought that any of these popular VPN would have set these security measured in place in their product).
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Thank u guys! If u can answer the last part of this question, would be great!
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Thank u very much!
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