I do run VPN but I don’t trust to it. How do you verify that the companies behind it aren’t spooks and not leaking your stuff ?!
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Great point, very few things in this life one can actually verify, if any.
Many VPN companies are audited by external trusted third parties.
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Mullvad for the win, thanks my friend
It’s my base case that they are spooks
I just use them to avoid corporate surveillance and such
You can't. Best you can do is trust somebody else's audit. Still requires trust though obviously. TOR.
You can’t! Run your own.
Then you're trusting your ISP which is even more likely to be compromised
You’re misunderstanding me. Never trust a residential ISP and don’t run it from home.
Select a host you think you can trust (or else run your own copper etc), then run the VPN there.
This will not protect you from a nation-state but, then again, few things will.
