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Global surveillance, VPNs, and Tor w/ Smuggler

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VPN Providers

You have to trust your VPN provider. And there's... You cannot get around the trust insistence like that. Same as Tor, you have to trust the faceless number of relays and you're just hoping that because the trust is distributed over multiple hops. A VPN provider that does not do any security research, doesn't have security people on staff is a bad idea. The really big flashy ones I have issues with them. There are a few that I would look into. One that I find friendly, mostly because I know the people. They're kind of honest in what they're doing.

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