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Security is not binary. (I'm becoming boring, most of my comments start like this.) The question is what are you trying to protect against? If you are trying t
by FiloSottile 11y ago
Security is not binary. (I'm becoming boring, most of my comments start like this.)
The question is what are you trying to protect against? If you are trying to protect against the local network, any VPN does the job. If you are trying to protect against tracking, ONLY a public VPN does the job (having a static private IP is a disaster in this scenario). If you are trying to protect against any organization seeing your traffic, then your argument might make sense.
However, unless you can run that "private" server on metal you own on a network you own, there will still be a VPS provider and an ISP that can see your traffic as much as the VPN provider would. So you might want Tor a at this point.
- txutxu 11y agoI can use public proxy lists since the 90's If I want to mix my output IP with other users (futile while my browser is fingerprint-able), I don't even need any VPN, and much less a third party one. I use VPN for what it is. Mostly to connect to my network (personal or professional) from the outside. If I still want to mix my traffic, I can do it, without "VPublicN services", without VPrivateN daemons, and without NSA's Tor. You are free to trust Tor and "Public VPrivateN services", and I'm free to do not trust them. Not sure if security is binary or not, but totally sure it's about trust.