| VPNs are constantly being mentioned as a solution to companies, governments, etc attacking privacy but it's extremely easy to make a bad choice and end up with more than you bargained for (a VPN ran by someone you were trying to escape, for example). It is still possible to do the following: 1) Wiretap the VPN. 2) Correlate with bandwidth/time. 3) Keep logs as a VPN provider. 4) Hack the VPN and do something evil (log, change content) 5) Block access to/from the VPN. 6) Correlate access logs with the VPN IP address (not always applicable, not all providers give unique IP addresses) The VPN provider doesn't have to want to betray you to do so. I could create "ProTurboVPN" and promise "anonymity", privacy and no logging, "nobody's touching your data!" but it won't stop the above problems. Even if I want to save the world as a VPN provider, I might not be able and it's safer to remember that than pretend I can and in the process, get someone into trouble. |