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by ceol 4739 days ago
> the people signing up for them are more often "bad guys" than tech professionals looking for privacy

Thank you. All we hear about is how the government is trying to silence us and there's some vast payment processor conspiracy trying to stop us from using credit cards, as if they would want to stop us from giving them money. No, HN, the majority of VPN traffic is not innocent nerds accessing Facebook on a public wifi.

I say this as someone who does rely on a VPN quite a lot. There's sticking up for righteous ideals and then there's ignoring the fact that a ton of your traffic is nefarious. We can't sit around doing nothing as bad guys use our tech for criminal activities and then get outraged when someone brings it up.

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Just roll your own VPN(s) with EC2 hosts. I have a feeling amazon will not ever get cut off by the processors.
point in fact, we have a version of pfSense coming for EC2