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Think how much fun it is running the intelligence-agency run VPN front companies now! You get paid to log the traffic of users worried about their privacy!
by e12e 10y ago
Think how much fun it is running the intelligence-agency run VPN front companies now! You get paid to log the traffic of users worried about their privacy!
- fencepost 10y agoThere's a big difference between being surveilled by a state actor and being surveilled for marketing and advertising profiles, not least being the kind of steps you'd need to take to counter that surveillance.
- mirimir 10y agoSo which VPNs do you think are run by TLAs? Can you cite any actual evidence? I know one: Anonymizer. It's a CIA operation. But arguably the target was Chinese users, not American revolutionaries. We know that HideMyAss complied with a UK court order, triggered by an FBI request. But we also know that PIA, which is US based, told a US court that they don't retain logs. Still, it is a reasonable concern. But you can distribute trust, rather like Tor does, by routing traffic through a nested chain of VPNs.
- e12e 10y agoI would think that intelligence services not doing such an obvious thing would be considered negligent. Just like they would sponsor and run email mixmaster remailers in the 90s and run tor exit nodes today.
- mirimir 10y agoSure. But for Chinese dissidents, trusting an NSA-run VPN would arguably be preferable to trusting a Chinese ISP.