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Re:Don't Get Pwned on Public WiFi: Use Your Own VPN by michaelt on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:43PM (#6285754)
If you don't trust a public wifi hotspot with your cleartext traffic because of passive snooping, why would you trust a VPN provider with your cleartext traffic?

A lot of these torrent-anonymously consumer VPN services look pretty dodgy.

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Re:Don't Get Pwned on Public WiFi: Use Your Own VPN by agwa on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @05:56PM (#6286553)
Use a non-dodgy VPN service, such as https://www.privatetunnel.com/ (run by the OpenVPN people) or https://privacy.cryptoseal.com/ (run by HN's rdl). You may be trusting them with your cleartext traffic, but that's really no different than trusting e.g. Comcast with your cleartext traffic when you're at home.
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