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For now, I am running my own VPN on Linode. The only real benefit of this is now my traffic is mixed with non-similar traffic. The hope is that this makes it l

For now, I am running my own VPN on Linode. The only real benefit of this is now my traffic is mixed with non-similar traffic. The hope is that this makes it less valuable to monitor the contents of my traffic. Of course, this just security through obscurity, and nothing more than a half measure. The internet is not designed for privacy, and privacy does not benefit the majority of commercial stakeholders of the internet. This is probably why most privacy solutions feel like shoving a square peg through a round hole. My personal feeling is that we should combat commercial bulk surveillance through legislative means.

CiPHPerCoder 9y ago
Obligatory: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/700798735190601729 https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/700798735190601729
- simonh 9y ago
  A confusing, content-less, arbitrary recommendation against Linode with no clear justification or reasoning given anywhere in the tweet stack is obligatory? I'm confused. Are there any actual reasons not to use them?
  - erikbye 9y ago
    His "recommendation" stems from a DDoS incident, and possibly, a hack. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10998661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10998661
jerheinze 9y ago
Your last paragraph ignores the existence of many privacy by design solutions such as Tor or i2p. Yeah, they can't protect against a global passive adversary - as any other low latency anonymity system in existence, but that's totally different from saying that there's no way to have privacy on the Internet.
- Skunkleton 9y ago
  Tor is a solution for specific use cases. It does not address privacy on the internet in a general way. For example, if I use tor to browse facebook, I am logged into facebook and still just as trackable as I would be if I wasnt using tor.
  - jerheinze 9y ago
    > Tor is a solution for specific use cases. It does not address privacy on the internet in a general way. For example, if I use tor to browse facebook, I am logged into facebook and still just as trackable as I would be if I wasnt using tor. No, at least now facebook may not know your exact location (especially if you use their onion service: https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ ) and they can't track your activity outside of facebook. Of course, it doesn't solve - nor can any other anonymity system - the fact that you transmitted personally identifiable information with facebook.
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CiPHPerCoder 9y ago

Obligatory: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/700798735190601729 https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/700798735190601729

simonh 9y ago
A confusing, content-less, arbitrary recommendation against Linode with no clear justification or reasoning given anywhere in the tweet stack is obligatory? I'm confused. Are there any actual reasons not to use them?
- erikbye 9y ago
  His "recommendation" stems from a DDoS incident, and possibly, a hack. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10998661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10998661

jerheinze 9y ago

Your last paragraph ignores the existence of many privacy by design solutions such as Tor or i2p. Yeah, they can't protect against a global passive adversary - as any other low latency anonymity system in existence, but that's totally different from saying that there's no way to have privacy on the Internet.

Skunkleton 9y ago
Tor is a solution for specific use cases. It does not address privacy on the internet in a general way. For example, if I use tor to browse facebook, I am logged into facebook and still just as trackable as I would be if I wasnt using tor.
- jerheinze 9y ago
  > Tor is a solution for specific use cases. It does not address privacy on the internet in a general way. For example, if I use tor to browse facebook, I am logged into facebook and still just as trackable as I would be if I wasnt using tor. No, at least now facebook may not know your exact location (especially if you use their onion service: https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion/ ) and they can't track your activity outside of facebook. Of course, it doesn't solve - nor can any other anonymity system - the fact that you transmitted personally identifiable information with facebook.
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