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Originally posted by bug77 View PostI've always found public VPNs to be more like honeypots. Wanna know who sends shady stuff? Start by looking at VPN users. But that may be just in my head, DPI can do as good a job anyway.
Corporate VPNs are another story though.
VPN users are in most cases legit or gray area users, the worst offence is torrenting or bypassing geo-restrictions for Netflix and such.
And of course people from China and other states that have shitty understanding of how Internet worksLast edited by starshipeleven; 18 June 2020, 07:43 PM.
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Originally posted by Almindor View Post
I'm guessing you don't really know much about how transactions work in say Bitcoin right? The whole idea behind cryptocurrencies is to provide the agency to have the ability of making transactions without centralized intermediaries that you're forced to trust using essentially math. Oh and the set-in-stone rules for making new digital notes, that's about it.
The electricity bit more or less an unwanted, but still unsurpassed, side effect... (proof of stake didn't prove itself properly yet)
It's all about you being the bank yourself and having the ability to send to anyone else. Fiat money btw. is the same digital 1s and 0s in the end today. No difference but for the ability of some to "print" more on a whim and as you said manipulated on a whim. Proper cryptocurrencies actually enforce the fact that nobody but the private key holder can do the manipulation.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostSo yes a company in a country that is overseas and cannot be easily contacted by your government unless you did something so bad that you attracted Interpol's attention (at which point a VPN is the least of your worries) might actually have logs of what you are doing (usually nothing particularly bad), but is it that bad at the end of the day?
We can assume that the VPN provider will grab everything it possibly can. What's mentioned above can be used to create a profile on you. You can't buy a VPN service without using your Credit Card (personally identifiable information).
I'd say it's better to limit VPNs to specific domains, or protocols (torrents, etc.) rather than letting it run system-wide or browser-wide. That's probably the best way to use a VPN. But most people don't know how to do that or don't understand what they're dealing with. The way VPNs are advertised right now isn't helping either. Therefore many people will end up using VPNs wrong while having this false sense of security.
Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostI mean, this isn't for protecting high profile targets like Snowden, but to keep shitbags like Verizon from throtling your Netflix or selling your browsing history to your government and avoid getting cease and desist letters for all the torrenting you are doing and such.
Luckily we don't have any news about VPN providers selling out their old customers to the highest bidder in the entertainment industry, yet. But I can imagine there is a financial incentive for that.Last edited by board; 18 June 2020, 11:44 PM.
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