Nostr

Bastards!

Is at least the promise (I think it's the case anyway) that using a vpn encrypts your traffic? 🥲

Yes.

The original function of VPNs was to give you a secure backhaul to your office when you are off-site. This is still a valid use case.

Then people started to discover they could consume regional content by using a global, public VPN. This is still a valid use case, however content providers could easily detect and block this if they were incentised.

The last case, which was never true was security. Stopping your ISP or government from monitoring what you are doing. Yes your path to the exit node is probably secure, but with the 14 eyes agreement as well as many other agreements, this simply means you are being observed and reported back by a different agency to your home agency.

How many VPNs do you hold the private encryption key for?

Now, NOSTR VPN's, where you hold your own key 🤔

But you're still being observed at the exit node.

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YODL 5mo ago

Nostr vpn sounds smart, but I'm too ignorant of how things work to know for sure.

Thanks for splainin

mike 5mo ago

Bog standard VPN using something like the Wireguard protocol, but being NOSTR, you hold and manage the private encryption key, not a trusted third party.

YODL 5mo ago

Ohhh, big standard...right.

I think I get enough of what you're saying for now. Someday I'll properly learn how VPNs work!

YODL 5mo ago

Gd autocorrect, I wrote BOG standard (which means nothing to me). I looked it up just now. I see it was not a typo by you afterall

mike 5mo ago

Apologies, it was a British colloquialism 😂

mike 5mo ago

And that day will be the day your government follows mine and wants to know who's doing what and where, all the time 😂

YODL 5mo ago

And by then you'll hopefully have sorted this all out for a smooth onboarding process :)

mike 5mo ago

😂

Diacone Frost 5mo ago

e.g. mullvad vpn accepts a (wireguard) public keys you give them. You hold the keys.

and they have strict no-log policy.

but yes, they all are more or less "trust me bro"