I thought you don't need a VPN for things like usenet
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2024
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Your ISP sees the connection to news.usenetserver.com and if they cared could get a court order to get your data from them. They can compel you to release your username and password.
You also need to protect yourself against future law and enforcement
You can't keep secrets from the future.
Heard that once in a song about how all encryption is doomed to break against future math/computing power. Great eery phrase.
You can keep secrets from the future. Future decryption won't help government see what you did in the now, the logs don't store the encrypted payload, only the end points and the user/ip
Meh my Usenet provider also partners with a VPN provider. Still costs me £5 a month for the VPN but I may as well use it, I like having a VPN
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do i want to be her or date her?
IP law firms tried to get their cases into my country and they only got a 50% success rate on court so they stopped trying (cost benefit thing I suppose).
Also private trackers in my country do not allow the use of VPN (why do they care IDK, they say it is to have more control on who join), so there's little point on getting a VPN for piracy here.
Also private trackers in my country do not allow the use of VPN (why do they care IDK, they say it is to have more control on who join), so there’s little point on getting a VPN for piracy here.
it's probably for IP banning or something. Whitelist authorization, something silly like that.
Or pirat through a public library proxy :)
Explain this to me more thoroughly? Does this mean physically going to the library and using their Wi-Fi? Or are you talking about something else?
I have a proxy host on a library terminal Server and a VPN through/to their firewall (its actually a network of Libraries
It's important to note that a VPN is simply somebody else's network in another location.