tiosecurity

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am tiosecurity on github.
• I am tio (https://keybase.io/tio) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is BA4F 6488 831D 1D85 ECE4 A59A 1D22 AEA1 5B4C CFC7

To claim this, I am signing this object:

tiosecurity

Most VPN Services are Terrible

Short version: I strongly do not recommend using any of these providers. You are, of course, free to use whatever you like. My TL;DR advice: Roll your own and use Algo or Streisand. For messaging & voice, use Signal. For increased anonymity, use Tor for desktop (though recognize that doing so may actually put you at greater risk), and Onion Browser for mobile.

This mini-rant came on the heels of an interesting twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/591074055018582016

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Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

(A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.)

Why not?

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### Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

  * I am tiocoin on github.
  * I am tio (https://keybase.io/tio) on keybase.
  * I have a public key whose fingerprint is BA4F 6488 831D 1D85 ECE4  A59A 1D22 AEA1 5B4C CFC7

To claim this, I am signing this object:

tiosecurity

Verifying that "rafass.id" is my Blockstack ID. https://onename.com/rafass

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### Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

  * I am rafass on github.
  * I am rafass (https://keybase.io/rafass) on keybase.
  * I have a public key whose fingerprint is AA39 B5D1 16CB 29EB AA83  07BD B5EE 16E3 C017 BAAE

To claim this, I am signing this object: