Whistleblowers, activists, and journalists depend on anonymous VPN services. Requiring identity verification for VPN services would put them at risk. It would also have a chilling effect on online debate (VPNs can help people post anonymously on social media).

In authoritarian countries, VPN services are crucial forcriticizing the government. That is precisely why such governments seek to ban or restrict them. Hopefully, the UK will not join that list.

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@mullvadnet personally, I'd recommend @torproject instead of a VPN simply because even Mullvad will comply with an orderly issue warrant.

• And I don't expect your staff to risk dying of old age in jail…

https://web.archive.org/web/20220112020000/https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/1085614812581715968

The only thing that VPNs are good for is circumventing Geoblocking and Providers violating Net Neutrality.

• But if you are targeted by state-sponsored attackers, espechally the UK government, a VPN is clearly insifficient…
  • But those OpSec, InfoSec, ComSec & ITsec issues are way beyond the scope of this post…

Case in point: If you want to watch i.e. @dw_innovation / DW news then a VPN is propably the only option if you can't get the livestream working.

• But in terms of privacy, I'd rather recommend Tor.
  • Still I have to give you guys cudos for your OnionService and pro-privacy setup, and I think that Tor over VPN is a valid strategy on the go…

#VPN #Tor #privacy #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #ITsec #security #VPNs #Mullvad #Tor #DW #DeutscheWelle #DWnews #OnionService

@Okuna @MxSpoon @mullvadnet @torproject @dw_innovation if you use a VPN directly, yes.

• OFC the old darkweb wisdom applies here, too:

Don't shit where you eat/sleep !