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0 pointsbrokenmachine9y ago0 comments

You have to trust someone at some point if you want to use the internet at all.

Do you trust any VPN providers? Or your ISP? Or the programmers of the browser that you're using? Or your CPU manufacturer? It's turtles all the way down.

Perfect is the enemy of good. If that protocol was open, it might foster a way to fold VPNs into the everyday person's internet connection, with the possibility to easily change VPN providers down the track.

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dredmorbius8y ago

And the point of this article, that VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem, is to change policy such that that trust may be far better founded.

Adding more players to a game that perverts and corrupts virtually every player on the field doesn't strike me as a particularly wise and enlightened approach.

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0 pointsbrokenmachine9y ago0 comments

You have to trust someone at some point if you want to use the internet at all.

Do you trust any VPN providers? Or your ISP? Or the programmers of the browser that you're using? Or your CPU manufacturer? It's turtles all the way down.

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dredmorbius8y ago

And the point of this article, that VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem, is to change policy such that that trust may be far better founded.

Adding more players to a game that perverts and corrupts virtually every player on the field doesn't strike me as a particularly wise and enlightened approach.

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