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What is the benefit of this over using a provider like PIA? PIA claims to store no logs, and this claim is supported with evidence that government entities coul
by lxjw 10y ago
What is the benefit of this over using a provider like PIA? PIA claims to store no logs, and this claim is supported with evidence that government entities could not force them to turn over any logs. But if you use a provider like Digital Ocean and run your own VPN, then Digital Ocean can and will log all connections and traffic to and from the VPN, and if a government entity of any sort ever approached them for any reason (such as if self-hosting VPNs became commonplace with DO, and the NSA wanted to suck all that data up), they'd hand it all over immediately.
- Gnewt 10y agoYou place full trust in the provider of your VPN. If you'd like to use PIA, you have to trust them -- and you can make your own decisions about that. I think it's fairly reasonable to trust them based on available evidence, but it really depends on your threat model.
- toufka 10y agoThe threat in this model is not the government, but rather from a private isp selling usage data attached to your name. As you are a paying customer it is not in Digital Ocean's interest to sell usage stats attached to real identities. This somehow is not the case for Comcast.
- fulafel 10y agoWhat makes you think DO logs all traffic?
- lxjw 10y agoThey don't advertise themselves as a company particularly concerned with preserving the absolute privacy of their customers like PIA does. I admit I haven't read their privacy policy, but I'm assuming they would have no problems handing over logs, and I'm assuming they indeed keep logs (or at least are entirely willing to do so if asked to).
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