I found this to be an interesting watch in layering security/ privacy rather than throwing the hail mary at a VPN and expecting it to keep you anonymous.
I found this to be an interesting watch in layering security/ privacy rather than throwing the hail mary at a VPN and expecting it to keep you anonymous.
VPNs primarily give you privacy from your local ISP, not necessarily anonymity. And the VPN provider then takes on the role of ISP and has the technical ability to inspect your traffic as it goes by. They may agree not to do that in the one-sided non-negotiable unilaterally-updatable ToS they offer you, but you have no means of knowing if they stick to it, and they almost certainly have carve outs in the terms to comply with local (to them) law enforcement demands.
I’m somewhat trusting of Mullvad, since they’ve actually been raided by police who walked away empty-handed which IMO demonstrates that they’re not bullshitting about not logging anything. But yeah as you say, that could always change in the future.