So I’m pretty recent to the high seas but I’ve seen a few posts now about “stop relying on your VPN” and “people that think VPNs will protect them are naive” and so on.

So since I believe knowledge is our greatest weapon/tool/super-power, can we get some answers regarding what exactly the doomsayers are getting at? ELI5 why VPNs wouldn’t protect your anonymity.

Is it about logging? The country your end-point is in? Something more technical?

Ultimately I’d like to be fully armed in order to keep making the best choices for my fledgling ship as it navigates the vast, stormy seas.

  • pirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    There is absolutely no proof so far that any supercomputer has cracked AES-256 encryption. And I can garantee you that if everything as you say piracy would not of existed in 2023 :-) So no they are not almighty who can break everything. You just watched too many movies and think its real.