to convict you with information obtained from a company that guarantees privacy and anonymity, would ruin that company's cash-flow, because we'd all talk, and "they" know it.

Wow we must have been on identical brainwaves earlier. I almost posted the same question.

I trust them to let me torrent in peace.

Beyond that, not really.

I've always wondered about that as well. How do you know who to trust? Watch out for the big vpn company that seems to offer great service at a low price, and then 'takes over,' (like when Google squeezed out all the search engines that were around back in the 90's, and Facebook killed the likes of MySpace and Tribe). I think StrongVPN is pretty good. Nice people, no logging.

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A VPN is not going to protect you from the Feds, but it will from your friendly neighborhood packet sniffer.

That's why you spoof your mac address and connect to your neighbor's wifi before you connect to your vpn.

Just whisper it ... quietly.

i dont

No. But if they can access your VPN history and logs, then they can fake your VPN history and logs.

All that leaves for them is a confession of your wrongthink and wrongspeech if they want to convict you of anything, which you should never give them under any circumstances. And if they're not bothering with legal convictions before dragging people away, then it doesn't matter anyway. At least you were right about them being evil authoritarian cabalists. You forced them to show their true face and admit that they can only cheat.

They were never as good as us. And they never will be. Without us, this world will burn.
They're welcome to the flames.

Most of them are honeypots for NSA. The first "flag" comes up at your ISP (comcast, etc. etc) when you use a VPN. They pass that info to NSA and from then on you're on the List. I fucked with them for a few days -- I set up a VPN, ran it through a couple of floating IP addresses, and send a continuous stream of gibberish which had been encrypted using a computer application which replicated the old Enigma machine, then it would change to another program which imitated the old US Government M-203 Crypto device from WW2. As for the "random garbage files", I had downloaded a load of declassified 'VENONA" files from the FBI declassified historical web site. (VENONA was the code name for all of the intercepts of Russian spy messages to and from the Commies embedded in the US Government back in 1940-45.)

Anyway, That got tiresome after about or almost a week. So I sent a series of short messages supposedly between John Titor and Henry Kissinger (always thought he was a fucking space alien).

Well, never heard anything from anyone about it. However, I have noticed that the steam radiators in my apartment here in Bostom (oh shit, I just Doxxed myself) Never mind, uhh My steam pipes here in (quick where do they have steam pipes for heating ? Shit Shit Shit!

Anyfucking way, suspicious stuff happened for awhile but now I'm all better.

How's that?

It doesn't matter, if Big Bro wants you all the proxies on earth arent stopping him. Assume youre on 7 lists already just being on Voat and try your best to lower your risk with non-US based VPNs with a no log policy.

Don't OD on paranoid blackpills.

No.

Didn't Mueller get the IP addresses of the Russians he indicted from the VPN service they used?

Nope. I run all my traffic directly through the government agency I work for.

I also end sentences with a preposition and you should know what that means.

It's worse than you imagine using a vpn paints you with a giant neon sign and automatically allows authorities to hack you and serves as a basis to get a warrant against you ... search rule 41 it came into effect December 16

https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/rule-41-becomes-law-expands-fbi-hacking-powers

CYBER SECURITYFAG HERE I have thought that exact thing, because if you use a VPN and it IS compromised then it's MUCH LESS secure than just using the internet, you're quite literally then giving them EVERYTHING on a silver platter whereas just using the internet would make it very hard for them to listen in, unless they're you ISP. So before you jump on bandwagon with a VPN you better be damn sure they can be trusted.

A VPN would make it SUPER EASY for them to monitor every single thing you do.

Think of it as if you called someone and asked them to three way call someone else for every phone call you made. Do you trust that person enough to listen into those conversations? If not you surely would not do it.. a VPN is no different.

Anonymous Charity says that VPNs are in the process of being comprmised - not all are bad. But, some are being bribed out

Its hard to know who to trust. I have NordVPN but I can never access Dailystorrmer with them. It doesn't matter if I change countries, I can never get through. I've been back and forth with their tech support but they can't seem to fix it for some reason. I'll be cancelling them once my contract runs out.

Seems like opening up yet another person between yourself and your personal information.

If I were to set up a VPN it would just be a secure tunnel to my home computer, I can't really imagine anything else that might be useful.

Fuck no. VPN companies are just honeypots.

No, you never know which ones will become collaborators until it's too late. This is why you use seven proxies.

I don't use a VPN because I'd rather Comcast aggregate my data than some dude wearing a dolphin onesie in his basement in Zurich.

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Wondered that myself. Just found out about ProtonVPN.com that's supposed to be really good. Founded by CERN scientists and the server is in Switzerland under a granite mountain. Protonmail is free and encrypted.