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I’d be willing to bet that for most of the VPNs that are getting advertised by YouTubers (NordVPN, SurfShark, ExpressVPN, PIA, et al) it’s 100% marketing and th
by sgjohnson 5y ago
I’d be willing to bet that for most of the VPNs that are getting advertised by YouTubers (NordVPN, SurfShark, ExpressVPN, PIA, et al) it’s 100% marketing and they don’t actually care whether their “kill switch” works 100% of the time.
After all, they are not as trivial to implement as it sounds.
- _jzti 5y agoSomething I don't understand is that he executed it fairly well... With the exception of using a weak, evidently broken, vpn instead of something like mullvad + tor. If you are going to do something like that (which is already a big "why???"), why put such little effort into your own security?
- Const-me 5y agoThe suspect allegedly stole gigabytes of data, need bandwidth for that. Last time I tried to use tor, I was getting like 32 kbit/sec, on top of a symmetric 100 mbit/second internet connection. That was many years ago but I doubt they fixed the speed, very hard to do without centralized servers.