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by mschuster91 3434 days ago
> Don't trust your network traffic to anyone but yourself

You still trust the cloud providers' upstream. In case of UK providers, the GCHQ sniffs upstream and ingress, so they can correlate traffic. Same for DE (BND, MAD) and basically all countries.
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dguido 3433 days ago
Yes, and you also have to trust your home ISPs upstream, and the routers upstream from that, and so on and so forth. Are you trying to say that using a VPN is useless?
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mschuster91 3433 days ago
> Are you trying to say that using a VPN is useless?

No, but you're making your traffic stick out and yourself a target for dragnet surveillance. The constant flow "packet in, other packet out" is easy to pick up for snoops, compared to "just packets out" from your home ISP.

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