[unshavedyak]

Yea, i use it to avoid Comcast mostly out of spite.

"Aren't as secure as you think" seems to imply Comcast or the foreign wifi has what, broken the encryption? If so, tell me! But i kinda doubt it.

[BostonEnginerd]

I think the problem is you’re trading one set of untrustworthy actors for another set of lesser known untrustworthy actors.

[unshavedyak]

Yea, but that's not _my_ problem. My problem is "fuck comcast".

As for the public wifi, i get that i can't trust my random Dropbox VM for example, but i can surely trust it more than an actively hostile public wifi, no? If i can't trust any remote computing VM, how can i host anything on infra i don't own?

[BostonEnginerd]

Of course, I fully expect someone commenting on HN to understand the issues and to have made the trade off.

It took a lot of explaining to my parents why a VPN didn’t add any meaningful security for them.

[unshavedyak]

Very good point. They also sell it as if _just_ using a VPN equals security. I can't count the number of ads i've seen that over sell that :/