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VPN provider claims Russia seized its servers

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Re: Options

Anyway, it is dubious that an individual can be forced to keep records of their own activity on their own computers - virtual or not.

This is true. However with a commercial VPN service, the purpose of the VPN operator keeping records is to identify which of their users was responsible for some particular traffic that was tracked back to an IP address owned by the VPN service. But if some illegal-in-Russia activity is tracked to your personal server, there is only one record required - the owner/operator of the server. Easily obtainable unless you pay with bitcoin and otherwise go out of your way to be untraceable, and that in itself might raise red flags.

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