Being privacy-aware in 2016

Re:Being privacy-aware in 2016 by philsnow on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:42AM (#11847598)

How is that any different? ISPs don't let just anybody know who the subscriber is at a given IP (though if you do reverse lookups, many ISPs so leak a lot of locality information, so still a good idea to use some VPN instead of no VPN).

My Streisand hosted on AWS looks to the outside like anybody else's Streisand hosted on AWS, doesn't it?

Similarly, my f-secure egress looks like anybody else's f-secure egress, so what's the difference?

I don't really know, I don't use a VPN. Really asking.

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Re:Being privacy-aware in 2016 by vox_mollis on Monday June 06, 2016 @12:24PM (#11847947)

ISPs don't let just anybody know who the subscriber is at a given IP

They certainly let law enforcement and intelligence agencies know, often without a warrant.

Please read my comment as if the threat model includes panopticon governments, not common skids running aircrack-ng.

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Re:Being privacy-aware in 2016 by philsnow on Monday June 06, 2016 @07:47PM (#11851419)

And reputable VPN vendors resist efforts by nation states to procure information about subscribers? I would expect to have to pay a handsome fee for that.

(I'm not saying you're wrong; again I've not really thought about having to thoroughly anonymize my own traffic.)

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