The E.U., With Cheers From The FBI, Is Dismantling VPNs To Spy On Americans

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[–]adultmanhwa 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

back in my day : ssh or vpn aren't even commercial, we buy vps and tweak it as we wanted. That's safer than nowadays 'honeypot' vpn

[–]noice 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I had casually wondered if people had used their vps's for that purpose. Just run openvpn on it or something? Also just pondering, could the purveyor of the server also get basically the same information from you as a commercial VPN could? Then you'd lose the "security through obscurity" benefit

[–]adultmanhwa 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah... but people aren't so advanced as of today.

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In my city we have a quite "giant" open vpn running with local WLAN's attached to it. 839 exit nodes ain't that bad considering the mean age of our citizens. One things i will miss when moving away from here.