Just curious if anyone else uses a “no logs VPN” based in a country like Switzerland or Panama when making posts on this site? In the very rare event Truist pursues litigation and subpoenas to try and determine who made posts on this site, using a VPN pretty much obfuscates your IP address and makes it impossible to determine who the person is who made the posts.
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@czp, Using the wonderful ChatGPT, I am, to sound like Yoda, hmm.
Like, oh my gosh! Totally using the fabulous ChatGPT to, like, sound just like Barbie! Sooo cute, right?! You get the picture, right?!
SunTruist has bigger problems
Believe me
I ain’t scurred. You shouldn’t be either. If you are; don’t post. Just be a bystander.
By the time they get the subpoenas you’ve probably been riffed in global star 12 the revenge of Accenture anyhew
Also, please never assume a VPN makes it "pretty much impossible". $10 you haven't disabled WebRTC in your browser which leaks your local IP, and you should never fully trust some company who is out in Switzerland or wherever else.
Also, if you use servers in the United States, they can be seized by the US Government regardless of who owns them.
There are all sorts of ways that VPNs leak your data if you don't have your browser set up correctly (are you running your own recursive DNS? If not, guess what, another way you are leaking your data even if your VPN uses its own DNS servers. Is it using DNSSEC? Probably not, that's pretty new and if it's not, your DNS requests are going over the internet via cleartext.) Did you log in to facebook while you were on your VPN? Keep Gmail open in your tab while you connected to VPN? Did you filter out the social media buttons on the left hand side of the layoff that automatically connect to your logged in accounts and track you across websites and take your IP? Are you signed into Windows Hello, linked your Microsoft Account to your Gmail account, even though you are browsing on incognito mode thinking no one can see you? Guess what, you've already revealed who you are and attached that to your "super secret VPN" IP.
Please don't just use a VPN and think you are "pretty much obfuscates your IP address and makes it impossible" to track you.
Using this site isn't illegal, and users don't have a dedicated IP to their home router and IPs change every time you reboot your router. They would have to:
- Get a court to agree to Subpoena thelayoff.com.
- Subpoena thelayoff.com and wait for them to compile the necessary data and logs, assuming they have them.
- Get a court in each jurisdiction where the headquarters of your ISP is to agree to subpoena your ISP.
- Subpoena each and every ISP that had a connection to this ISP, and wait for them to compile the necessary data and logs.
A company isn't going to do this in order to save money, it's going to cost wayyyyy more time and money to do that than just to sever you. Really the only time you see those kinds of subpoenas happening are for criminal matters, not because there are a few employees who think their business su-ks.
@nfk+1raJ6VXM LMAO 🤣 at your comment
@czp+1raJ6VXM - There can be reasonable suspicion from text analysis, but there cannot be concrete proof from that method. Other people may write in a similar manner and thelayoff.com is available to anyone who has an internet connection. The burden of proof would be on say Truist to prove beyond a reasonable doubt who posted a thread, and IP address or cookies would be only way to do that
@shl+1raJ6VXM I hear that. We have people in our data and analytics org who can't write vlookups, and I'm supposed to be scared of text analysis?
Maybe the alphabet boys could but not our crack Truist analysits.
It's possible to determine who you are without all that. Using a variety of text analysis techniques, they can infer a lot about you from posts on here and from your internal communications.