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.

  • istdaslol@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    You shouldn’t even to it that way. If you run possible malicious Software, the antivir has a chance to miss it. If it’s a new virus. Run everything in a sandbox and check if it calls some kind of control server and let the antivir check it in said sandbox. Than you can transfer it to your main PC