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This also ties your identity to a provider definitively. That's fine, as long as you tell people that's what is happening. A good consumer VPN that isn't a garb
by icelancer 7y ago
This also ties your identity to a provider definitively. That's fine, as long as you tell people that's what is happening. A good consumer VPN that isn't a garbage one offers plausible deniability.
- tomxor 7y agoYes this is true, it really depends what you want from your VPN. For security and anti-cencorship this works, among many other useful things that you can't do with a normal VPN - but if you are evading authorities or something then you cannot be personally associated with the server. I suppose that negates my point about it's obscurity, since you only care about that if you are evading prying eyes of some sort. I've updated my original comment to include your point.
- cyphar 7y agoIf you want to have any hope of anonymity when accessing the internet, use Tor. Don't use a single-hop proxy. Even if you assume that the VPN provider is trustworthy and won't roll over when they're handed an NSL (a questionable assumption), intelligence agencies can just as easily break into all the servers (owned by a single party) and log the traffic themselves. Personally, I would be surprised if they haven't already done this for some providers -- why wouldn't they?