Doxxed Through VPNs: Former Cybercrime Detective Interview | Simplified Privacy

Simplified Privacy interviewed Travis West, a former cybercrime detective, about how VPN users can be identified. West says that using a VPN with burner accounts can still link a person when the same IP address appears near the same time as activity on their known accounts, and that a gap of under 10 minutes, even once, would lead investigators to assume it is the same person. He adds that device timezone and IMEI data, which Google and Apple have held, can strengthen such links. West also says low-effort Monero use, such as sending directly to an offramp service, can be traced, and that Lightning may be traced by Chainalysis. The site presents the interview as evidence for its own VPN product.