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by anakaine 612 days ago
The article doesnt quite match the headline in the way your reply suggests. Trust, in this instance, is more about accidental leakage and installers not tailoring the OS to have Up and Down watchers to apply DNS changes.

It's not about whether the VPN provider can be trusted.
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axegon_ 612 days ago
On the contrary: an accidental leakage is one of the many reasons a VPN provider cannot be trusted. Say I want to hide myself temporarily - which is safer - a VPN provider, having no idea how they handle data, logs and whatnot, or a tiny vps somewhere for half an hour while you need it, get your job done and then nuke it out of existence. The latter would be infinitely harder to compromise if you know what you are doing as opposed to a service that is running 24/7 and having no idea how data is retained.
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alias_neo 612 days ago
You're missing the point. OP _is_ running their own VPN, the title is misleading, and the article has nothing to do with VPN providers and trusting them.

To quote: > I have my own VPN () - in other uncool words, I set up OpenVPN on a VPS ...

The title should be "I configured my home rolled (Open)VPN server incorrectly and it leaked DNS".

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