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THIS IS A VPN EXIT ROUTER





You are most likely accessing this website because you've had some issues with
the traffic coming from this IP address. This router is part of the MultiVPN
Anonymity Network, which is dedicated to providing privacy to people who need it
the most: average computer users. This router's IP address should be generating
no other traffic, unless it has been compromised.

MultiVPN works by running user traffic through a chain of encrypted servers and
then letting the traffic exit the MultiVPN network through an exit node, like
this one. This design makes it very hard for a service to know which user is
connecting to it, since it can only see the IP address of the MultiVPN exit
node.





MultiVPN is used by many important segments of the population, including
whistleblowers, journalists, Chinese dissidents circumventing the Great Firewall
and repressive censorship, victims of abuse, persecutors, military and law
enforcement agencies, to name a few. Although MultiVPN is not intended for
malicious computer users, it is true that they can use the network for malicious
purposes. However, in reality, the actual number of abuses is quite small. This
is largely due to the fact that criminals and hackers have significantly better
access to privacy and anonymity than regular users, whom they are targeting.
Criminals can and do create, sell, and trade much larger and more powerful
networks every day. Thus, according to the MultiVPN service administration, the
public need for easily accessible, censorship-resistant, private, and anonymous
communication outweighs the risk of unqualified wrongdoers, who are almost
always easier to detect through traditional police work than through extensive
monitoring and surveillance.


In terms of applicable law, the best way to understand MultiVPN is to consider
it a network of routers operating as common carriers, much like the Internet
backbone. However, unlike the Internet backbone routers, MultiVPN routers
explicitly do not contain identifiable routing information about the source of a
packet, and no single MultiVPN node can determine both the origin and
destination of a given transmission.


As such, there is little the operator of this router can do to help you track
the connection further. This router maintains no logs of any of the traffic, so
there is little that can be done to trace either legitimate or illegitimate
traffic (or to filter one from the other). Attempts to seize this router will
accomplish nothing.


Furthermore, this machine also serves as a carrier of email, which means that
its contents are further protected under the ECPA. 18 USC 2707 explicitly allows
for civil remedies ($1000/account plus legal fees) in the event of a seizure
executed without good faith or probable cause (it should be clear at this point
that traffic with an originating IP address of 144.217.207.3 /
ca1.encryptedconnection.info should not constitute probable cause to seize the
machine). Similar considerations exist for 1st amendment content on this
machine.


If you are a representative of a company who feels that this router is being
used to violate the DMCA, please be aware that this machine does not host or
contain any illegal content. Also be aware that network infrastructure
maintainers are not liable for the type of content that passes over their
equipment, in accordance with DMCA "safe harbor" provisions. In other words, you
will have just as much luck sending a takedown notice to the Internet backbone
providers. Please consult EFF's prepared response for more information on this
matter.


That being said, if you still have a complaint about the router, you may email
the maintainer. If complaints are related to a particular service that is being
abused, I will consider removing that service from my exit policy, which would
prevent my router from allowing that traffic to exit through it. I can only do
this on an IP+destination port basis, however.


You also have the option of blocking this IP address and others on the MultiVPN
network if you so desire. The MultiVPN provides a web-page to fetch a list of
all IP addresses of VPN exit nodes that allow exiting to a specified IP:port.
Please be considerate when using these options. It would be unfortunate to deny
all MultiVPN users access to your site indefinitely simply because of a few bad
apples.


© The text is based on materials from the Tor Project and the Electronic
Frontier Foundation.
The page was edited using ChatGPT.