[andrenotgiant]

Until a better solution is found, I think the way the recent IOT botnet stuff + this ISP privacy deregulation is portrayed in the media opens the opportunity for a startup that sells a secure, smart home router + VPN subscription plan.

[kylehotchkiss]

Don't startups that fold sell user information as part of their wind-down?

[dredmorbius]

Oh, and here I was thinking that trusting startups to our most private and intimate thoughts, traffic, readings, and communications was how we ended up with this mess in the first place.

Clearly I'm mistaken.

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[wfunction]

And you would trust the startup with your traffic because...?

[brokenmachine]

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.

[dredmorbius]

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.

[nine_k]

End to end encryption, keys never leave your premises, routing is randomized? Looks a bit like TOR.