• Telorand@reddthat.com
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      3 months ago

      The existence of the NSA and their activities is not proof that they have backdoors in VPNs. That’s bogeyman conspiracy theory shit—“they could be anywhere, therefore they’re everywhere!”

      You still haven’t answered the question, and I’m beginning to think you are making shit up based on paranoia.

      • 🏴 hamid abbasi [he/him] 🏴@vegantheoryclub.org
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        3 months ago

        Go ahead and use these services. I don’t care about you, what you do or what you think. You are deeply unserious if you are not paranoid about the surveillance and I really have nothing to discuss with you.

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          3 months ago

          Is there literally any evidence that the US government managed to extract useful information from no-log vpn providers in the US?

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            I have (anecdotal) evidence that they, in fact, can’t extract useful information from one particular no-log vpn provider in the US, PIA. They showed up to seize data, but walked away empty-handed when they found out that they are, truly, no-log and their servers run entirely from RAM, so no drives to extract data from.

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      3 months ago

      Is your home machine, your phone, better protected than the VPN servers? I bet you’re not as good at IT security as the IT security staff VPN companies hire

      If your threat model includes nation state actors, you’re best off not using networked computers

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        3 months ago

        I am all about good tinfoil but some of these people acting as if they are SNOWDEN lol

        Yes if feds wanted to catch you shitposting, watching big titied asian porn and downloading coldplay… I think there raised ways than compromising a VPN provider.

        Unless it is a honey pot, then use a different VPN provider. Gonna need trust at the end of the day.