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Yes, this is more likely than intentional leak of the info and I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Someone who works at your company doesn't understand h
by cookiecaper 9y ago
Yes, this is more likely than intentional leak of the info and I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Someone who works at your company doesn't understand how PDF works -- that's OK, most people don't need to. It's unlikely that the guys who are busy running the servers are going to be spending their time dragging boxes over documents before they get posted online.
- kuschku 9y agoThe whole point of a VPN is that you trust it more than your government or ISP. If your VPN allows any intern to simply post PDFs online that contain such info, without the legal or security department looking over it, you're not trustworthy. What's next? Next time they actually deliver someone's info, and it ends up in a PDF everywhere online, too? Trust is a fragile thing.
- cookiecaper 9y agoWell, uh, that's definitely not the point of VPNs when I use them. It's very unlikely that a private VPN provider is more trustworthy than either a decently-sized ISP or a government. VPNs are useful to avoid negative effects of traffic analysis and bad QoS, bad neighbors at a public access point, and give privacy or a different geolocation when accessing specific individual destinations on the web (e.g., an IRC server that would emit your IP into the public log). Generally, VPNs should be used as needed to serve one of these specific purposes, not 24/7. Expecting protection from your government or ISP for $10 / mo is a tad unrealistic.
- kuschku 9y agoInteresting. PIAs entirely marketing argues differently, even going as far as the typical 2000s era scare tactics of telling me where my IP is geolocated, and that the government can read my data.