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Is the owner of lemmy.zip going to be more likely or less likely than a billion-dollar company to go to court to challenge a bullshit administrative warrant?
What information does the owner of lemmy.zip have to give away? Your username and email? That's the point.
And your IP, which ISPs can match to some sort of access point.
My point here is not to say that big companies are better; my point is, relying on the implementation details of software to keep fascism away from you is a losing strategy. The fascists are thinking bigger.
You raise a good point. I keep a foreign based VPN on for that exact reason, but that's not necessarily the standard. Ultimately, it seems like the best strategy is to put as many layers of legal abstraction between yourself and your online presence as reasonably possible.
Which VPN may I ask? Is it outside one of the Five Eyes countries?
Proton, so yes.
Very fair point, I do use an always on VPN. Mullvad. And I recognize that more can always be done, but one does need to start somewhere, perfect is the enemy of good and all that
That would also imply they lay within the US's jurisdiction
Better yet, use an off-shore instance outside of US control with third-country VPN. The DHS could only get the IP of the foreign instance. If somehow the foreign instance cooperates and gives them your IP, that would be the VPN IP. Then the foreign VPN provider would have to cooperate for DHS to get your IP. Your ISP would probly give you up.