Friendly reminder not to login to personal services from the same VPN with which you expect to remain anon.
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its the purchasing of the VPN that is paramount, all else (legally) can fall under reasonable doubt unless reason has failed the inspector.
That's a big part of it no doubt. But also what I mentioned.
"Then, according to the affidavit, Pompompurin used several VPNs to connect to his Gmail account, some of which overlap with his activity elsewhere on the internet.
The agent also said that the FBI obtained records from cryptocurrency exchange Purse.io. The company’s records revealed that four of the IP addresses used to connect to the exchange were also used to connect to the conorfitzpatrick2002@gmail.com Gmail account and Pompompurin’s RaidForums account. Moreover, that Purse.io account was registered with the name Conor Fitzpatrick and the email address “conorfitzpatrick2002@gmail.com,” the affidavit said.
Those four IP addresses, according to the agent, were owned by VPN providers, which Pompompurin also used to connect to the “conorfitzpatrick2002@gmail.com” account.
Another VPN IP address was also used to log into a Zoom account under the name “pompompurin” associated with a Riseup email address also used to register his RaidForums account, according to the affidavit."
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/24/how-the-fbi-caught-the-breachforums-admin/