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lapfog_1

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9. that said, if YOU create a server
Sun Jul 2, 2023, 10:47 PM
Jul 2023

that is in, say Nevada, and you create your own VPN from your laptop to the server in Nevada, I challenge them to determine that your data is actually coming from Kansas or someplace.

There are many "open source" code VPN software out on the internet... however setting this up is likely beyond the technical expertise of most people.

The only sure way to know that someone is using a VPN is to time RT traffic from the remote user... and compare that to the RT traffic of the VPN endpoint address ( our NV located server ). If the RT time is substantially different, you have located a VPN user.

There might be a way to fool even this detection measure... but that would take even more elaborate VPN technology than what is found in the open source world.

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