Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook

Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by 2bitencryption on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:25PM (#16778669)

Just wondering, what makes you trust your VPN provider more than your ISP?

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by ThoAppelsin on Saturday April 07, 2018 @03:23AM (#16779774)

I use DigitalOcean as my VPN provider and make my connections to there over IPSEC. I did not set the server up myself alone, but used the Algo VPN [1] script to do it for me. With this setup, I have two things to be concerned about:

1- I did not audit the script myself, and they may have injected various malware to the VPN server it spun up during the setup. I am not concerned enough to not trust them, but I could just read the script thoroughly to eliminate the necessity for trust.

2- DigitalOcean has the access to hardware, so it might be doing whatever while I am not looking, and I just never look. Similarly, I could monitor the activity on the server to assume some control.

I chose DO for being the cheapest ($5/month).

[1] https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by PeterStuer on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:50AM (#16779699)

It's more VPN'ing into your own router and trusting your own ISP more than some random free wifi provider.

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