Secure your VPN

Jonni Bidwell casts doubt on the highly profitable VPN business, and explains how you can do better.

Consumer VPNs (virtual private networks) are big business. Indeed, if all the sponsored product placement and affiliate linking is anything to go by, then just a few bucks a month will bring you great security, privacy, and other nebulous benefits, while at the same time making you magically appear as though you’re in a country of your choosing. What they don’t tell you is that while you’re holidaying, safely, in this faraway IP block, your traffic (albeit partly encrypted) is visible to the VPN provider. It might care more about your monthly subscription payment than what you’re using its service for, and it might well implement a ‘no-log’ policy, but the provider has the same insight into customers’ traffic as those customers’ ISPs did, up until the point it all…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2022

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