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>The problem with a home-grown VPN is that you lose some of the plausible deniability that's gained from a shared VPN. Yes, but what good is a VPN where you ca
by aphextron 9y ago
>The problem with a home-grown VPN is that you lose some of the plausible deniability that's gained from a shared VPN.
Yes, but what good is a VPN where you cannot trust your own network? I would have zero trust in any closed source private VPN. There are ways to gain anonymity from your host that wont require setting up a MITM attack vector for your traffic.
- greglindahl 9y agoI get a lot of value from a VPN that prevents my ISP from spying on my traffic. I see from looking around this conversation that two other people cited this same reason. I could totally see that many people wouldn't care about this particular thing.
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- cam_l 9y agoNot just spying either, but if you are in oz at least, keeping all that metadata in a big, juicy, government mandated, and poorly secured bundle for 2 years!
- daxorid 9y agoVPN is one layer. Filtering all port 80, only permitting TLS, and aggressively paring down your trusted root cert list can effectively mitigate the MITM threat.