Comment by Terry_Roll
4 years ago
>ie. large number of users sharing the same IP and protects against correlation attacks
Depending on where you are based in the world (see https://www.submarinecablemap.com) realtime throttling of vpn traffic can still identify a user and where they are going in some cases.
You can get a degree of privacy from visiting websites located on servers in big data centres, but nothing a search warrant couldnt find out retrospectively.
Just traceroute your journey inside a vpn to see where abouts you are going when connecting to a webserver anywhere in the world and workout the physical route you are travelling on the cable map.
Obviously the number of languages you speak also restricts where in the world you will be going online to a point and timezones can also make you stand out like a sore thumb if you visit a website when the locals generally arent.
I've identified (US) websites which can workout what DNS server you are using, so in my case, based in the UK if I swap from using a UK ISP dns to using another dns like quad9 in Germany, the (US) websites alter the content you can see, just on that single DNS server change.
There is no privacy!
>There is no privacy!
I think this is a good message. In the same vein, there's no security either. All you can do is make your and your adversaries' life harder, and balance the different tradeoffs.
> there's no security either.
Dont buy that, care to elaborate?
In the same line of thinking as the parent comment, there's no 100% security either. If you loot at IT, everything can be hacked, secrets leak, intelligence agencies hoard vulnerabilities, or even have insiders in security firms or larger corporations.
In the real life, no lock is invulnerable. Most can be picked, frozen, melted, etc and surely have other weaknesses too.
But to achieve their goal, they don't need to perfect. Just reasonably good. And so, I wish for people to be mindful about the nature of these. That they are not perfect, they are not hidder, nor secure. Just, maybe, reasonably so.
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