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> VPN services can't exactly hide behind being an impartial carrier since they sell themselves as tools precisely for circumventing censorship, tracking, region
by lgierth 9y ago
> VPN services can't exactly hide behind being an impartial carrier since they sell themselves as tools precisely for circumventing censorship, tracking, region locking, and providing anonymity.
I really wish some VPN providers would try advertising themselves as desirable technical solutions to the technical shortcomings of many ISPs -- e.g. my ISP here doesn't give me native IPv6, and has a crappy last mile. OpenVPN-over-UDP helps with both.
VPNs can also simply protect against attacks on public networks in e.g. cafes, libraries, airports.
> this is a political problem that can't be solved through more tunnels
Yes, but they help in that they increase people's headroom for informing and acting.
- lgierth 9y ago> VPNs can also simply protect against attacks on public networks in e.g. cafes, libraries, airports. To expand on that, you could argue this for any network, even home and company networks -- who knows which of the many windows computers and android phones of my colleagues/family are bots?
- gruez 9y agoNot really against remote code execution type exploits, more like password/session stealing attacks.