Re: Anonymous Me (or... How I used VPN to Hide the Real Me)
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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No, I mean he is talking about something he doesn't understand.
The bottom line is 2-fold as I have laid out:
1. You believe you can somehow route your internet traffic such that it can't be traced using a paid-for service.
I contest that you can't because the internet Hardware is owned and controlled by the powers that be. There is no escape from it. Any form of internet use is at some point using their hardware.
2. You believe that your traffic/data is encrypted such that no-one could de-crypt it.
I contest that this is naïve. If there exists an encryption algorithm then there exists a decryption algorithm. Someone, somewhere has the decryption keys for all such VPN services. That being the case the whole argument boils down to whether you personally think they would use that decryption key to spy on people's traffic. For me, it's a no-brainer that they DO spy on all internet traffic and have huge banks of racked servers interpreting it all and archiving it all to massive data farms.
This is the nuts of the whole issue. Any techno jiggery pokery in the middle is of no relevance TBH.