EXPOSED: How Israeli spies control your VPN
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You have to be very careful with VPNs. Even if they're not directly controlled by spooks they often collect information that a privacy service shouldn't collect. It's also very hard to get reliable information on different services because VPN shills rival the DNC's astroturfing abilities.
Tor/TAILS should also be pretty secure, assuming the unlikelihood that all 3 nodes you pass through are compromised by the same entity. But it's so slow that it becomes impractical for casual internet use.
Tor is just a huge pain to use. Wish I knew of a better alternative.
Hiding your traffic makes it easier to find because so few people go to that trouble.
Your better bet is to hide among noise.
Hide among the noise? As soon as you access any website or download or post any dissident comment, then you're immediately going to be flagged. Even if your online activity is perfectly legal, you're being entered in a database and analyzed.
As soon as you access from a connection that you own. Access it from other peoples connections. Generate the noise yourself. Make your connection look like it belongs to a dorm. Bounce your traffic through two separate connections. Learn how to make all your connections look different. Noise is more than just volume.
So.. your complaint is that it's hard to be an armchair dissident?
Good luck.
Or run TOR over a VPN. More than a few of us do this. Especially if you're going to host an exit node.
So what's wrong with NordVPN? I have never gotten an answer to this question that satisfied me.
I'm not familiar with it, so I can't say. The point isn't that all VPNs are bad, or even that a particular VPN is bad. The point is that there are a lot of bad actors in this space and a lot of shills that make getting honest information difficult.
There is a lot of FUD about VPNs. Even about NordVPN. But I haven't been able to substantiate any of it in a way that made me think using another VPN (short of my own server) would be any better.
If they really don't have your info, they wouldn't be able to hand it over to any court. So I think if we could look at what they do under pressure, we'd know.