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Your VPN provider won't go to jail for you for 5 dollars (www.ivpn.net)

submitted 7 months ago by chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It is something to always take into consideration and not forget.

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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

That does not work unless you involve yet another party after the VPNs and before the destination to rebuild the packets, as the destination won't know what to do with these split packets.
At that point you may be better off using an anonymity network with or without the VPN.