EXPOSED: How Israeli spies control your VPN
(www.mintpressnews.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (30)
sorted by:
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.
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.