Remember all those massive WTS threads by Nizzar?

[Kergan]

Originally Posted by Syft [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yes you are correct about the header that's a no duh! But the data doesn't unpack until it reaches the computer, all the VPN does is change the IP header. The information is still traveling from the VPN to the computer through the leased IP. All your doing is fooling the server logs of the source IP. But somewhere in THAT data the server is still aware of the original IP because it sends the data packets through the leased IP to the computer and then uploads it again through the leased IP to the VPN back through the server.

That is why someone could figure out who you are even through a VPN, as long as you stay connected to a server long enough. A VPN is not a foolproof method to hide your IP, if it were the FBI couldn't trace or find anyone online as long as they connected to a VPN. You stay connected to any server and they can find your original ip and there are many ways to do it!

You cannot avoid detection indefinitely ! If you stay connected to server that is uploading and downloading data from your computer you can be found! Which is exactly what I originally stated!

Quite literally everything you said in this post is wrong. Packet headers are stripped and reapplied every single time a packet passes through a new device, it's not "unpacked" ever that doesn't even make sense. It's not like a zip file dude.

If I go to FBI.com while VPN'd in they have absolutely NO WAY to find my local internet connection. To the FBI.com webservers, my traffic originates from whatever internet connection I'm tunneling fbi.com traffic to while connected to a VPN.

Can they track you down? Sure. By going to the VPN termination point and getting connection logs and what not from the source. Good luck getting that info if you're P99 admins and you can't threaten to put people in the clink.