If I was the NSA, I'd certainly be looking to launch a VPN company or two - maybe even subsidising their offerings, to get them to the top of the performance and value for money charts. After all, getting users to voluntarily direct their traffic through your network would be much easier than installing snooping hardware at every ISP, backdooring hardware in transit or snooping on undersea cables.
> Maybe even subsidising their offering Yeah there's a few VPNs that look shady because of their pricing. One that springs to mind is LeafVPN[1]. For $5.00 you get to send all your traffic to Mallory. And it even has `LEA` as the first three letters, so you're safe! This is not an endorsement of this service BTW. [1]: https://leafvpn.com
any of this services are safe to use http://vpntrends.com/best-vpn-services/ ? Not that i do anything illegal but don't want to send my information directly to the government.