Quote from: Cognitive Cryptography on March 02, 2013, 02:29:59 PM

Quote from: bluedye on March 02, 2013, 12:39:33 PM

I now see you don't keep any logs and usage cannot be traced back to you.

Is it not possible this could be LE trying to snoop on us all? I know this is over-the-top slightly but if they controlled a few VPNs then they could follow exactly what you did, even though you thought you were anonymous? Im merely interested and not accusing in the slightest!

If the feedback coming in remains good, Ill consider joining too.

Interesting thought.
The way we see it, is, arn't you snooped on all the time anyway? Google logs all your usage data and possibly Google drive files, and Facebook has been proven to track your data even outside of their site. I'm sure most of us regularly use Google and Facebook, so wouldn't it be much easier for the LE to buy your data from them and others? Both Google and Facebook have not been known to sell data, but what makes them any more trustworthy than us? Because they are a big corporation? If anything, that makes them more open to secret deals, or rouge employees who have access to the data. Countless corporations have done it in the past, and there are many places you can go to, to find extensive information on a person.
Cognitive Cryptography is run by 2 people, only 1 of which has access to HaiPeng, our VPN server; and by extension any "logs" we may keep. Everything I do that concerns the company is disclosed on irc, and the same with JackSparrow. If he went rouge, I would be the first to report.
Using our VPN is, given, risky because although we say we don't log your data, we always could. But we are no less risky than any other VPN. And plus, its more risky using Facebook and Google because they are GUARANTEED to log your data.
Google now has free internet, there is no reason why they won't log all of your browsing data from that.
There are even companies that store all tweets on twitter ever made, and even keep deleted tweets. There is software available to keep your own twitter logs for large scale crown analysis. Twitter has millions upon millions of daily users, CCVPN has no hope of achieving anywhere near a million. Why spend your time and money setting up a VPN company when you can access twitter logs for free(from, I dare say, a large amount of less technically, and by extension, privacy inclined users, who probably disclose a lot more about themselves than the average Bitcoin user?)?

Citations (in order of being mentioned):
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-evil-side-of-google-exploring-googles-user-data-collection
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#section_1
http://m.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/16/mobile-phone-internet-advertising
http://readwrite.com/2012/04/26/here-are-20-companies-who-sell-your-data-how-to-stop-them
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/alternatives-to-twapper-keeper/

Interesting links:
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-to-stop-facebook-from-tracking-you-2012-9?op=1
startpage.com - startpage logs all Google search data, then let's you search it. You get the same search results as Google, but without the logs.

Phew, that took me over an hour.
HectorBarbossa.

Yes, you have good points about google, facebook and twitter but I doubt anyone who wants to stay anonymous (and you do advertise yourselves clearly as being a highly anonymous service) going to be logging into social media sites using a VPN. That sort of defeats the purpose IMO of staying anonymous lol.

The only way to really secure yourself from any VPN from knowing your connections is to do:

Tor ----> VPN ------> Tor (VM)

But yes it is an interesting thought, especially considering VPNs are doing a lot of damage concerning copyright infringement, such as torrent downloading. So I personally would tend to trust the older VPNs as:

1. They have stood the test of time
2. I think it unlikely a VPN being around for a long time is rogue or LE.

I wish you all the best with your new business though.