VPN – Very Precarious Narrative

Re:VPN – Very Precarious Narrative by mirimir on Monday April 08, 2019 @01:15AM (#19602337)

If you setup your own VPN on some leased VPS, then you're the only user. So there's zero help re anonymity. And re privacy and security, you need to trust the VPS provider.

No free lunch :(

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Re:VPN – Very Precarious Narrative by dvcrn on Monday April 08, 2019 @01:30AM (#19602395)

But a VPS on DO, AWS or gcloud also has numerous services on the same physical machine. It's not like every request coming from that machine is from you or am I missing your point?

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Re:VPN – Very Precarious Narrative by mirimir on Monday April 08, 2019 @01:54AM (#19602483)

Sure. But each VPS has its own IP address. The VPS provider probably retains logs. And its ISP probably also retains logs. And everything involving that IP address is associated with you.

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Re:VPN – Very Precarious Narrative by dvcrn on Monday April 08, 2019 @03:24AM (#19602920)

For incoming traffic yes, but outgoing traffic is heavily dependent on what you use. A lot of virtual spaces use the same outgoing IP

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Re:VPN – Very Precarious Narrative by mirimir on Monday April 08, 2019 @04:59PM (#19608978)

I don't recall seeing that. VPS got their own public IPs. Which would show up in ipchicken or whatever.

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