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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19138112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19138112 The title is also misleading. The "VPN threat" they're conce
by tivert 8y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19138112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19138112
The title is also misleading. The "VPN threat" they're concerned about is not the about VPN's per se, but VPN's that spy on their users. Such things are real, as was recently made clear when Apple revoked Facebook's enterprise certificate over one.
- djohnston 8y agoif you're an analyst, and someone voluntarily lets you into their house knowing you're there to collect information about their house, are you spying? doesn't spying require some element of attempted secrecy?
- Cacti 8y agoBurying the spying disclosure in the TOS, and obfuscating the language used to describe that spying, is attempted secrecy. Also, it’s irrelevant, because disclosure of potentially illegal acts doesn’t make them any more legal (“but I told them I was going to steal their money, and they put it in my safe anyway” is not a legal defense).
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