Some VPN anonymity providers sound noble; others are just icky

September 23, 2011, 3:15 PM — Although ridiculing as "scrubs" critics claiming all the LulzSec'ers used the same thin and ineffective anonymity screen as the accused "Recursion," who the FBI arrested yesterday for one in a long line of data breaches at Sony, one of the few surviving LulzSec'ers is calling for a boycott and ultimately the destruction of the VPN service whose records the FBI used to identify Cory Kretsinger as Recursion.

Our VPN service and VPN services in general are not designed to be used to commit illegal activity. It is very naive to think that by paying a subscription fee to a VPN service you are free to break the law without any consequences. This includes certain hardcore privacy services which claim you will never be identified, these types of services that do not cooperate are more likely to have their entire VPN network monitored and tapped by law enforcement, in doing so affecting all legitimate clients. – Hidemyass.com, "The LulzSec Fiasco," Sept. 23, 2011.

AirVPN allows clients to sign up and pay for the service using digital Bitcoin reseller networks and to use the TOR VPN network when buying an account at Bitcoin, to keep from leaving a trail of IP addresses to the point at which you paid.

More commercial services just as CryptoCloud, provide a "100% anonymous procedure" for payment and service, accepting cashier's checks or other anonymous payment, and promise that "we do not store logs of your network activity. We don't have a privacy policy regarding those records because we don't keep those records…We cannot be compelled to provide what we do not have."

CryptoCloud is all in all around, although, offering a VPN tunneling service that "wraps everything in an outside wrapper indistinguishable from plain, old-fashioned HTTPS traffic. So, during you might be playing WoW and talking on a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) connection, your router and network sees only traffic similar to visiting an online banking site."

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