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I wonder how secure those VPN providers are. Regardless, my bet is that these guys will get taken down via a Kaczynski vulnerability. That is, someone that personally knows them will figure out that they are responsible and report them to the authorities.

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Where did "Kaczynski vulnerability" come from? Your comment is the first result I got googling it.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...

Probably from Ted Kaczynski:

"David Kaczynski had once admired and emulated his elder brother, but had later decided to leave the survivalist lifestyle behind.[74] He had received assurances from the FBI that he would remain anonymous and that his brother would not learn who had turned him in, but his identity was leaked to CBS News in early April 1996."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Arrest

I doubt they use only "paid for" services in their chain. There are very likely normal user-boxes (like your moms) and "forgotten" servers involved as well.

It's not easy to back trace when you have to send in someone to do forensics on a computer.

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