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by bad416f1f5a2 1397 days ago
I’ve heard the idea of “competing jurisdictions” advanced here: run your own Wireguard VM in China or Russia and route traffic through that box, with the goal of essentially introducing unfriendly international borders in your traffic. Ideally your Russian VM provider would be uninterested in responding to an American subpoena.

The other concept I’ve heard put out is to add layers - your traffic hits Vultr, then Hetzner, then etc etc. Conceivably if you cross enough jurisdictions you can make it very difficult for a legal adversary to attack your traffic.

Would I bet on this for activities I needed to remain exceptionally private? No - but if I needed relatively consistently low latency traffic and a decent baseline of privacy it might just work.