4 ms·
This is exactly why I tend to use VPNs from country's with which the US is not in good terms with : Russia, Iran, Belarus, China
by deadalus 5y ago
This is exactly why I tend to use VPNs from country's with which the US is not in good terms with : Russia, Iran, Belarus, China
- tlb 5y agoFirst-order strategy (do something that works as long as the other side hasn't also thought of it) only works until the other side thinks of it. My guess is that the intelligence complex (CIA +) thought of this around 1995, and the domestic law enforcement complex (FBI +) around 2005.
- walrus01 5y agoIf I was a US intelligence agency I would specifically establish colocation presences with ISPs in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, china, etc, on commercial ISP terms, and admin the servers remotely to set them up as a commercial vpn service. There's plenty of datacenter operators in Russia that will take your money.
- stef25 5y ago> There's plenty of datacenter operators in Russia that will take your money. Wouldn't they have some uncomfortable questions to answer when Putin finds out they've been cooperating with the Feds?
- kryptiskt 5y agoPresumably the feds wouldn't say who they were and would pose as common criminals, because they wouldn't have any reason to suppose that the datacenter operator would keep quiet if they were open about their identity.
- 542354234235 5y agoBut yours assumes that Russia doesn't do counter-intel and wouldn't be looking for exactly these kinds of infiltrations. If it is obvious to us that these things would be targets, I'm pretty sure it is obvious to Russian intelligence services.
- emc3 5y agoShady fly by night data hosting doing counter-intel, or better, Putin spending his precious rubles on running counter-intel ops for shady fly by night hosting companies, are both hilarious.
- pueblito 5y agoRussian govt has always held counter intel to be a top priority and they devote an enormous amount of resources towards it, so why is that hilarious?
- md_ 5y agoBellingcat appear to routinely buy data from Russian blackmarket data brokers.
- snypher 5y agoReplace 'buy' with 'receive' and 'Russian blackmarket data brokers' with 'intelligence assets' and you're correct.
- walrus01 5y agoThe feds would pose as a slightly shady hosting/Colo company or similar.