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I downvoted this, but I'd like to explain why. It's not reasonable to expect people to go and get VPNs of their own unless we, as technologists, make it so com
by jwise0 11y ago
I downvoted this, but I'd like to explain why. It's not reasonable to expect people to go and get VPNs of their own unless we, as technologists, make it so completely trivial that it's the default. If you ask the average person whether they need a VPN for public wi-fi, they will give you a blank stare. If we believe that it is something that they need, it's our fault that they don't know about it. And, if we believe that they shouldn't need it, it's our fault for not building secure solutions to begin with.
This is either a failure on our part to educate, or a failure to build secure systems, or a failure to regulate the people who would do these things. But either way, it's our failure -- not a failure of the users.
- droopybuns 11y agoI totally disagree, obviously. :) At least in this situation, you have a mechanism to opt out if you pick up a VPN and disrupt traffic injection. Your only solution with companies like google & facebook is not to play. I agree that it is disappointing that the laymen isn't going to be able to disrupt this traffic injection. We are already so deeply into a privacy dystopia that I think think you're focusing on the wrong fight. Some of the most successful companies have more users than customers. They are using TLS to avoid MITM attacks between the client & their infrastructure, but then harvesting data & injecting traffic till the cows come home. Arguing for other mechanisms to disrupt carrier traffic injection is in essence an argument for defending the privacy invasive business cases of google & facebook.