A simple metaphor for VPNs is that you're paranoid about someone keeping track of what you buy at the supermarket, so now you pay someone to buy stuff for you in order to "protect your privacy" If you think about it for a sec you get the issuehttps://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1309485850779152390?s=20 …
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So if an evil government takes over and demands Kroeger hand over the list of everyone who's bought gouda cheese to the feds... The list still exists All they have to do is tell them "Oh it's that guy who buys gouda in bulk, he's probably buying for everyone in the nieghborhood"
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So now they just have to arrest the one guy, and get his customer list Now you're putting all your trust in him to somehow be immune to arrest or unwilling to cooperate So how much do you trust this guy? Like do you even know who he is? He's just someone who sponsored a podcast
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Ironically, if everyone just bought their own gouda from the store it would probably be a lot harder to hunt them all down one by one, poring over all of the store's records of everyone who ever went there
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When everyone worried about prosecution bundles themselves up onto one VPN's customer list, they make themselves a big fat juicy target for anyone willing to go after them It's the whole maxim that "80% of keeping a secret is not acting like you have a secret"
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