Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I...
by godelski on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:48PM
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My ISP throttles connections (strangely including Zoom).
My ISP mines my data and sells it to the highest bidder despite costs not coming down.
My ISP determines what I can look at and can't (such as torrent sites).
My ISP is participating in anti-competitive behavior and I need the internet but I don't have a meaningful way to tell them to fuck off.
My VPN doesn't log. My VPN doesn't filter my traffic. My VPN reduces what my ISP can know about me and monetize me. My VPN allows me to access sites appearing in different countries or as a different user which changes what content websites serve to me, including price of products.
VPNs are a soft security practice, but one hell of a way to tell your ISP to fuck off. I think there's this group of people that say "oh, a security feature isn't bullet proof, therefore it is useless." But this is just dumb. All security features are probabilistic in nature and depend not only on how you use them, but your threat model and the will of your adversary. For people, like me, trying to escape dragnet operations VPNs do help. But alone they aren't enough and that's okay.
My ISP mines my data and sells it to the highest bidder despite costs not coming down.
My ISP determines what I can look at and can't (such as torrent sites).
My ISP is participating in anti-competitive behavior and I need the internet but I don't have a meaningful way to tell them to fuck off.
My VPN doesn't log. My VPN doesn't filter my traffic. My VPN reduces what my ISP can know about me and monetize me. My VPN allows me to access sites appearing in different countries or as a different user which changes what content websites serve to me, including price of products.
VPNs are a soft security practice, but one hell of a way to tell your ISP to fuck off. I think there's this group of people that say "oh, a security feature isn't bullet proof, therefore it is useless." But this is just dumb. All security features are probabilistic in nature and depend not only on how you use them, but your threat model and the will of your adversary. For people, like me, trying to escape dragnet operations VPNs do help. But alone they aren't enough and that's okay.