<story><title>FBI affidavit against Ryan S. Lin in cyberstalking case (2017)</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001841/download</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nadya</author><text>The relevant bit is on Page 22.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Further, records from Pure VPN show that the same email
accounts Lin&amp;#x27;s gmail account and the teleportfx gmail account-were accessed from the same
WANSecurity IP address. Significantly, Pure VPN was able to determine that their service was
accessed by the same customer from two originating IP addresses: the RCN IP address from the
home Lin was living in at the time, and the software company where Lin was employed at the
time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, it seems Lin knew or suspected this at least, seeing as he doesn&amp;#x27;t believe in a VPN service that doesn&amp;#x27;t keep logs:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;For example, on June 15, 2017,
Lin ... re-tweeted a tweet from &amp;quot;IPVanish,&amp;quot; that read: &amp;quot;Your privacy is our priority. That&amp;#x27;s why we have a strict zero log policy.&amp;quot; Lin criticized the tweet, saying, &amp;quot;There is no such thing as VPN that doesn&amp;#x27;t keep logs. If they can limit your connections or track bandwidth usage, they keep logs.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This will be a useful .pdf to keep on hand because I also don&amp;#x27;t believe in VPN&amp;#x27;s that don&amp;#x27;t keep logs. At a minimum they&amp;#x27;ll keep 30 days worth and in many countries may actually be required by law to keep them longer than that even (60-90 days usually).&lt;p&gt;As an aside, it&amp;#x27;s good to see another example that the FBI does actually investigate cases of cyberharrasment and takes doxing seriously, contrary to popular opinion.&lt;p&gt;E: A few typo fixes and the last 4 words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ALittleLight</author><text>I opened the document expecting to sympathize with Lin. In my imagination this was some FBI surveillance state overreach, or &amp;quot;cyberharassment&amp;quot; thing getting overblown.&lt;p&gt;Instead, reading through the allegations, Lin came off as abominable. Contrary to your conclusion that this shows the FBI takes cyber harassment seriously, it seems like law enforcement generally allowed Lin to publicly subject this poor woman to psychological torture for a couple years before doing anything about it.&lt;p&gt;Provided the allegations are true, whatever sentence he gets will not be enough...</text></comment>
<story><title>FBI affidavit against Ryan S. Lin in cyberstalking case (2017)</title><url>https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1001841/download</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nadya</author><text>The relevant bit is on Page 22.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;Further, records from Pure VPN show that the same email
accounts Lin&amp;#x27;s gmail account and the teleportfx gmail account-were accessed from the same
WANSecurity IP address. Significantly, Pure VPN was able to determine that their service was
accessed by the same customer from two originating IP addresses: the RCN IP address from the
home Lin was living in at the time, and the software company where Lin was employed at the
time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, it seems Lin knew or suspected this at least, seeing as he doesn&amp;#x27;t believe in a VPN service that doesn&amp;#x27;t keep logs:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;For example, on June 15, 2017,
Lin ... re-tweeted a tweet from &amp;quot;IPVanish,&amp;quot; that read: &amp;quot;Your privacy is our priority. That&amp;#x27;s why we have a strict zero log policy.&amp;quot; Lin criticized the tweet, saying, &amp;quot;There is no such thing as VPN that doesn&amp;#x27;t keep logs. If they can limit your connections or track bandwidth usage, they keep logs.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This will be a useful .pdf to keep on hand because I also don&amp;#x27;t believe in VPN&amp;#x27;s that don&amp;#x27;t keep logs. At a minimum they&amp;#x27;ll keep 30 days worth and in many countries may actually be required by law to keep them longer than that even (60-90 days usually).&lt;p&gt;As an aside, it&amp;#x27;s good to see another example that the FBI does actually investigate cases of cyberharrasment and takes doxing seriously, contrary to popular opinion.&lt;p&gt;E: A few typo fixes and the last 4 words.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crankylinuxuser</author><text>Again, its easier to buy a cheap VPS in a country that is at odds with the one you&amp;#x27;re in. Then, any intelligence the other country gets will likely not be sent to the country of residence.&lt;p&gt;Ally countries usually have extradition treaties, and have a greater chance of sharing intel.</text></comment>