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Re:A Little-Known Company That Enables Mass Surveillance by strathmeyer on Sunday October 23, 2016 @10:12AM (#12773634)
A VPN is someone else's computer. Why would that be safer than using your own?
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Re:A Little-Known Company That Enables Mass Surveillance by q-base on Sunday October 23, 2016 @12:10PM (#12774080)
Because of eavesdropping on the output of set computer does not tell anything about who is making the actual request? Or are you implying that it will be possible to backtrack with this type of surveillance?
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Re:A Little-Known Company That Enables Mass Surveillance by criddell on Sunday October 23, 2016 @12:38PM (#12774212)
No, I think he was asking how you can trust that the VPN end point you are connected to hasn't been hacked.
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