I think the most important feature is probably the generous margins from reselling bandwidth
What happened to the plan to deprecate http, that seemed like the right solution to me, not just shuffling bits around and calling it security.
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Replying to @taviso @aprilmpls
I think we all know the score here.pic.twitter.com/luTPhvlZ9t
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Replying to @ericlaw @aprilmpls
Look, all I'm saying is why not use homeopathy *and* antibiotics? For just $4.99 a month, I'll provide all the sugar pills you can eat.
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Replying to @taviso @aprilmpls
Https isn't going to solve the privacy problem, nor will it, without full deployment, mitigate the problem of insecure traffic on compromised local networks. VPN is far from a silver bullet, but it's not nothing either.
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You know this. I know this. April knows this. People who follow you might not.
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Replying to @ericlaw @aprilmpls
I know that VPN doesn't solve it either, so I don't follow your argument.
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After much (needed & excellent!) work, only now are 80% of Android apps encrypting: https://security.googleblog.com/2019/12/an-update-on-android-tls-adoption.html … Hard for an educated layperson *who doesn't know the TLS state of their app stack* to conclude that VPN provides zero additional assurance on a *local* untrusted network.
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I assume you know the problem with this, a *local* untrusted network is no more secure than a *remote* untrusted network. You've just shuffled some packets around, collected $4.99 and improved nothing.
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I mean, the idea here is that the VPN is a remote *trusted* network, and one with an absolute ton of egress traffic. (and to be clear, I don't use them, but I also don't think they are valueless)
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If I'm at an airport: • Using VPN: Airport knows I use VPN. People monitoring VPN egress traffic can't easily determine it's my traffic. • No VPN: Airport knows every site I visit, for how long, and how much traffic. There is definitely value to that for a lot of people.
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We both know how VPNs work, why are you pretending there is only upside here?
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