GM #[0] & #[1], thanks for another great Journey to Sovereignty episode.
I wondered about your opinion on Multi-Hop feature that VPNs such as iVPN and Mullad offer.
Do you enable this feature or do you connect to the same location each time?
Curious to hear the best practices on this and whether connecting to the same location can compromise your privacy.
Thanks for tuning in. Honestly this feature is something I read about ages ago and then completely forgot about.
I'm going to test it out this week so I can provide some valuable feedback. Until then, I'm hoping #[2] might have some feedback for you.
I appreciate the honest answer. I will dig deeper into this feature and see the trade offs. Cheers QnA! 🤝
Important to know it doesn't change trust in the provider, it just reduces single-jurisdictional or single-datacenter risk of surveillance or compromise.
I think for most people it's overkill in almost any scenario.
I believe that for a high level attacker such as ISP, Google, Facebook, etc, over time it is fairly trivial to associate a regular users web traffic, probably even easier when using a wide variety of VPN end points.
For example, if a user scrolls Instagram and streams music (or uses any of their dozen phone apps) a link could shortly be established that the two accounts consistently log in at the same time using the same IP address. A very privacy minded individual break this link by mono-tasking and changing VPN endpoint for every task.
It would be far easier to use something like Safing that creates a different channel for each app or website visited.
