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Until a better solution is found, I think the way the recent IOT botnet stuff + this ISP privacy deregulation is portrayed in the media opens the opportunity fo
by andrenotgiant 10y ago
Until a better solution is found, I think the way the recent IOT botnet stuff + this ISP privacy deregulation is portrayed in the media opens the opportunity for a startup that sells a secure, smart home router + VPN subscription plan.
- wfunction 10y agoAnd you would trust the startup with your traffic because...?
- nine_k 10y agoEnd to end encryption, keys never leave your premises, routing is randomized? Looks a bit like TOR.
- brokenmachine 10y agoYou have to trust someone at some point if you want to use the internet at all. Do you trust any VPN providers? Or your ISP? Or the programmers of the browser that you're using? Or your CPU manufacturer? It's turtles all the way down. Perfect is the enemy of good. If that protocol was open, it might foster a way to fold VPNs into the everyday person's internet connection, with the possibility to easily change VPN providers down the track.
- dredmorbius 10y agoAnd the point of this article, that VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem, is to change policy such that that trust may be far better founded. Adding more players to a game that perverts and corrupts virtually every player on the field doesn't strike me as a particularly wise and enlightened approach.
- kylehotchkiss 10y agoDon't startups that fold sell user information as part of their wind-down?
- dredmorbius 10y agoOh, and here I was thinking that trusting startups to our most private and intimate thoughts, traffic, readings, and communications was how we ended up with this mess in the first place. Clearly I'm mistaken. </s type="because it is necessary>