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Can my VPN provider see my original IP address?

  • 28-12-2019 06:13AM
    #1
    Elite Woad Raider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭Elite Woad Raider


    I know VPNs are used to mask IP addresses online. However I am concerned my VPN provider might be able to identify my IP address from my login details. I have recently started using Tor because I no longer trust my VPN provider.

    Should I be concerned?


Comments

  • #2
    Liv Poor Skit
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Liv Poor Skit


    All VPNs can see your original IP address.


    A VPN won't help if the Gardaí come knocking.


  • #3
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,457 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Some people have been tracked through tor also.


  • #4
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    If you think your VPN was adding any security. It wasnt.

    If you think TOR is adding any security, it probably isnt.


  • #5
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,790 ✭✭✭degsie


    Online privacy is a myth!


  • #6
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,962 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Elite Woad Raider wrote: »
    I know VPNs are used to mask IP addresses online. However I am concerned my VPN provider might be able to identify my IP address from my login details. I have recently started using Tor because I no longer trust my VPN provider.

    Should I be concerned?

    If you're doing something that you shouldn't be then yes you should be concerned.

    To be honest, reading your post, I'm concerned.


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  • #7
    corminators
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭corminators


    Better question: can your VPN provider identify you based on your payment details?


  • #8
    Pooinloo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 48 ✭Pooinloo


    Elite Woad Raider wrote: »
    I know VPNs are used to mask IP addresses online. However I am concerned my VPN provider might be able to identify my IP address from my login details. I have recently started using Tor because I no longer trust my VPN provider.

    Should I be concerned?

    Yes of course they can. If you're just downloading movies, you'll be fine. If you're very concerned about online anonymity, you can set up your own VPN server, using one of the cloud providers. That way, you can route your traffic through a particular region, regardless of where your requests are being made from.


  • #9
    Inquitus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,790 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Unless you are doing something incredibly dodgy, TOR is anonymous, it takes complex activity and control of multiple entrance and exit points to track people down on TOR, which is why all the Marketplaces rarely get taken down.

    A VPN is also safe, unless you are doing something incredibly dodgy which would warrant law enforcement to issue a warrant to your provider, to reveal your details.

    Sure in Ireland they don't even bother tracking people for using public torrents to dl movies etc.


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