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Mullvad seems interesting, I might switch to it. (lemmy.fedioasis.cc)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 2 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

No, but I have a home lab and that is behind the VPN. With a download server and some other stuff like IRC (IRC can expose your home IP to other users)

The router blocks any requests going around the VPN so that the usual de-anonimisation tricks don't work.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I'm glad to learn that irc is still a thing.

    some O.G. social media sounds like a smarter thing to be doing rn considering the state of affairs on the big name platforms.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    You may want to migrate away from openvpn with hardware acceleration. It’s my understanding that the type of hardware built to accelerate openvpn uses older crypto processes that are not hardened against parallelization or quantum.

    Quantum is fake but parallelization is absolutely not and once it becomes more profitable to pop hashes than to do erp with racks of dgxs people are gonna do it.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Honestly, I don't really care about that. Yes it uses quantum-sensitive protocols like AES but honestly, who with a quantum computer is either going to:

    • Record all my traffic to decode it 10 years later, knowing they will also have to break SSL on top of that!
    • Already has a quantum computer or a huge datacenter for paralellisation right now meaning they are the NSA and if they wanna spy on me they are going to anyway. And really if someone has such a datacenter they will use it for AI which is more profitable.

    For my threat model the threat of my VPN crypto being broken just isn't important right now especially in my VPN usecase which is already low-importance stuff. There's nothing valuable or personal in that traffic. The only reason I use the VPN is to do torrents really. If they want to grab a few torrenters and make an example out of them it's much easier to grab a few that are not using any VPN. There's still loads of people torrenting directly on their bare home IP.

    It's like the saying of the two guys running from the bear. One says to the other: "We're not gonna outrun him!". The other says: "Doesn't matter, I only have to outrun you". Not being the easiest catchable is enough protection.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    What I’m trying to communicate is that in the case of an ai profitability crash or even just the v and a series gpus getting dropped from cuda support (they’re next on the chopping block!) you will suddenly be the slow guy.

    People raw dogging the internet aren’t the ones you have to outrun because even twenty years ago there wasn’t a real investigation, they just immediately got prosecuted. In your metaphor they all get caught in camp asleep, you’re running a race against me but you’re wearing cinder blocks for shoes.

    It’s <$20 to get a freshtomato or openwrt compatible consumer router from the thrift shop and switch to wg.

    My point isn’t to argue or to fight, but to gently inform that you’re maybe missing a crucial piece of the picture and offer a solution. 😘

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