They don’t offer lots of informations about their products. For instance VPN: do they log connections…?

  • Lunacy@lemmy.ml
    7·
    3 years ago

    You will never know if a VPN provider doesn’t keep log. It’s impossible, even if the provider is open source. A VPN provider can see all your traffic, just like your ISP, there is no difference.

    Also, keep in my mind that VPN marketing is utterly misleading. First of all, hiding IP it’s not so relevant, tracking technology are far more complicated. Using a technology called fingerprint websites and malicious actors can still be able to identify you.

    VPN doesn’t encrypt anything, for that there is HTTPS, which is already available for the 99% of sites. Therefore, VPN doesn’t add any security.

    Now, I’m jot saying that you should not using a VPN. it’s up to your user case, threat model and trust.

    For more information;

    • brombek@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      Yeah, I would say it only makes sense to use a trusted VPN after you did all you could to protect from tracking on your devices. Mullvad did some work on using TPM to create cryptographic prove on what is running on their servers… so there may be a way to have extra transparency on the VPN providers but we are not yet there. So using VPN moves your trust from ISP to the VPN provider. It will also make some sites/services to block you or require extra validation.

  • Halce@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    Isn’t that the domain register from Peter Sunde? Or am I confusing the two…