Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
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Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
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Re: Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
#2You get what you pay for...
Re: Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
#3I'd like to point out that a regime may find it worthwhile to compromise more kinds/sizes of VPNs than we might expect.
The evil regime doesn't need to have a popular evil VPN that everybody uses... it may be enough to operate (or hack) a smaller VPN which can unmask enough dissidents that their friend-groups can be found by other means.
Re: Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
#4With online development responsibilities, I don't find VPNs to be compatible with what I do all day.
That said, the few implementations I have test before seemed leaky and not as useful as they claim.
Re: Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
#5You get what you pay for...
I don't think a high price in the VPN market is a reliable indicator of "getting something better"
VPN companies often overpackage their offerings and overcharge -- this truism doesn't apply when shopping for VPNs.
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Re: Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
#7Commercial VPNs will go down as one of the greatest money-making schemes of the last decade. Outside of a few specific use cases their sales often rely on leveraging non-technical users' fear of what they don't fully understand.
I have non-technical friends and relatives that have fully bought into this and when I asked why they use a VPN I got non-specific answers like "you need it for security", "to prevent identity theft", or my personal favorite: "to protect my bank accounts".
Not a single person has said "I pay to route my traffic through an unknown intermediary to obscure its origin" or "I installed new root certificates to increase my security."
Re: Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
#8Commercial VPNs will go down as one of the greatest money-making schemes of the last decade. Outside of a few specific use cases their sales often rely on leveraging non-technical users' fear of what they don't fully understand. I have non-technical friends and relatives that have fully bought into this and when I asked why they use a VPN I got non-specific answers like "you need it for security", "to prevent identit…
Commercial VPNs do indeed vaguely promise to protect your data, access, etc.
For those of us that are technical but unschooled, what resources would you recommend we learn from?
Re: Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
#9What is this list that doesnt include NordVPN and ExpressVPN?
Re: Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
#10Commercial VPNs will go down as one of the greatest money-making schemes of the last decade. Outside of a few specific use cases their sales often rely on leveraging non-technical users' fear of what they don't fully understand. I have non-technical friends and relatives that have fully bought into this and when I asked why they use a VPN I got non-specific answers like "you need it for security", "to prevent identit…
Commercial VPNs do indeed vaguely promise to protect your data, access, etc. For those of us that are technical but unschooled, what resources would you recommend we learn from?
You can operate your own VPN (algovpn, openvpn, etc). There's low utility to doing so, but it's fairly straightforward these days.
Or run Tailscale (and a self-hosted DERP relay).