Re: [tlug] VPN?

[David J Iannucci <jlinux@example.com>]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2018, at 15:52, dblomber wrote:
>  I have my concerns about VPN companies. Looks like a great target for
>  crackers and governments to have centralized access to our data. VPN
>  companies seem just as willing to collect and serve our data up, like
>  most ISPs.

If this is true, you have to think that the whole industry is just a big
scam. Not that I'm so naive as to think that there cannot be abuse
there, but for a large number of companies pledging themselves to help
you maintain privacy and anonymity (to the extent that they do) to be
all, or even most, taking advantage of you instead is an extraordinarily
dark outlook.

Most security advice I have seen on the web, some of it from what look
like very trustworthy sources, says "use a VPN for enhanced privacy and
anonymity". Is this all just a big conspiracy?

Dave