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Tbh, even if PIA is a giant honeypot, if you use public wifi and pay with a gift card you purchased with cash...it doesn't really matter in any substantial way
by fweespeech 11y ago
Tbh, even if PIA is a giant honeypot, if you use public wifi and pay with a gift card you purchased with cash...it doesn't really matter in any substantial way unless they are willing to put boots on the ground to find you.
If they are willing to do that, even TOR isn't real protection due to the fact it can and will be breached in the event of an active attack by malicious nodes on both ends of the circuit.
A VPN you can buy relatively anonymously [e.g. disposable gift cards bought with cash] and use with common sense [e.g. Not via your home LAN] are an effective privacy tool.
However, 99% of people aren't going to go through that level of effort which makes them nearly useless for privacy purposes.
- gruez 11y agoIf you're going to use public wifi, what's the point of using a VPN? Are doing it so they need to subpoena one more person before they catch you?
- fweespeech 11y agoMitM on public wifi is a thing.
- joepie91_ 11y agoAs is MitM on VPN services.
- fweespeech 11y agoYes but we've established the concern is someone knowing who you are, not what you are doing. A MitM at the local wifi shop is going to know you are and what you are doing. A MitM at a VPN you paid for with a gift card you paid with cash is just going to know which wifi shop you were at. If you never go back, odds are they can't figure out which customer you were.