Comment by michaelmrose

That is a terrible analogy because the information is inherently captured and you are talking about taking extraordinary measures to destroy evidence. It's also a failed conversational gambit because we end up discussing the bad analogy instead of the underlying issue.

In other news despite VPNs people who commit crimes are prosecuted all the time via ordinary police work per normal. In fact despite sophisticated tech criminals on average leave behind more breadcrumbs than they ever did in prior eras.