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What do you mean at about spreading vpns?
by angry-hacker 10y ago
What do you mean at about spreading vpns?
- mirimir 10y agoLook at /r/VPN and the Wilders privacy subforums. Examples that come to mind are HideMyAss pwning Cody Kretsinger (LulzSec recursion). An EarthVPN user was pwned based on logs kept by its hosting provider. And so on.
- angry-hacker 10y agoI see. I'm wondering if the evil free VPN provider could do redirects google.com -> googleee.com and pwn users like that? Also, I don't understand why people trust random VPN's with all the data, if it's not https then it's all there to be seen or what?
- mirimir 10y agoI'm sure that there's at least one that has tried that. But they wouldn't last very long. There are some that MitM HTTPS and substitute ads. And there's one that routes traffic from one user through other users' uplinks, and then sells those routes as a botnet-like service. That's why you want to avoid free VPNs. Established VPNs have valuable reputations to protect. And about trust. When you use a VPN, you're trusting it as much as you'd otherwise trust your ISP. The point is, you use a VPN when you can't trust your ISP.