Re:Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; the Value Proposition of ...
by danShumway on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:37PM
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Well, don't buy from a VPN provider that is suspiciously cheap.
If a no-name company starts selling suspiciously cheap smartphones, the odds of those smartphones being backdoored/stolen/broken goes up pretty dramatically. That doesn't mean that every company selling smartphones is equally untrustworthy.
Of course it's a problem how hard it is to tell if a VPN company is trustworthy, but that's a problem that exists for almost every 3rd-party relationship I enter into.
If a no-name company starts selling suspiciously cheap smartphones, the odds of those smartphones being backdoored/stolen/broken goes up pretty dramatically. That doesn't mean that every company selling smartphones is equally untrustworthy.
Of course it's a problem how hard it is to tell if a VPN company is trustworthy, but that's a problem that exists for almost every 3rd-party relationship I enter into.