A friend of ours was at an ‘Infra Guard’ meeting at UC Davis last year and an FBI agent let slip to the audience that the FBI is reading VPN and TOR in real time and using the information to catch cybercriminals.
Bottom line is if it is online it is not secure.
Exactly. Even people who don't go online are at risk because hackers are hacking companies servers/database with all kinds of info. As the man explained; a foreign government can go in and simply record all the data that flows through the VPN servers for months or years then use that info at a time of their choosing.
The real bottom line is we are all going to die someday and we kissed real privacy goodbye years ago.
Agreed. I just do what I can, but concede that government has the resources (via taxpayer-funded deep pockets) to circumvent whatever is available to me.
I’ve always thought that using a VPN was tantamount to screaming I AM DOING SOMETHING I DON’T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW ABOUT!!!
Red flagging yourself.
*Had to go look up “TOR”.
Hmmm.