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One possible option is to sell VPN service to friends/family/acquaintances, for a price that is (clearly to them) cheaper than comparable commercial VPNs, in ex
by geofft 8y ago
One possible option is to sell VPN service to friends/family/acquaintances, for a price that is (clearly to them) cheaper than comparable commercial VPNs, in exchange for a promise to not do anything that would get you in legal trouble. You can trust the promise more than you could trust standard terms-of-service because you know them, and hopefully the lower price means they see it as you offering them something as a convenience from your side project instead of a "real" business and the problems of doing business with friends don't apply as much.
- gscott 8y agoJust tell customers everything is logged and the logs are deleted on a rolling basis every year.
- nickpsecurity 8y agoAnd the logs are stored encrypted offline. They move over a one-way link from main server somewhere else in case of a compromise. They're never shared except with law enforcement with a warrant per privacy policy and EULA. Inspires more confidence if they're kept temporarily but heavily protected.
- geofft 8y agoThat won't sufficiently discourage folks who want to do potentially-illegal stuff from doing so - it will let you defend yourself in case of a legal incident, but the cost (in time, money, and happiness) of having to deal with a legal incident at all is pretty significant. It seems better to me to try to limit your users to people you believe are unlikely to trigger a legal incident, unless you're at the point where you can hire someone to deal with it for you.