Privacy and Transparency in VPN industry
summary
Claims that most consumer VPNs sacrifice privacy and that TheVPNCompany is an open source, end-to-end VPN stack including website, config management automation and a monitoring system that necessarily collects connection times, origin IPs, endpoint IPs, ports and bandwidth. Cites audits of hundreds of apps showing 59% hidden Chinese ownership, 86% policy flaws and 85% excessive permissions, with hundreds of millions of installs. Implementation uses OpenVPN and cheap cloud droplets (DigitalOcean) as a runnable sample service; monitoring enables operation but reduces anonymity.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:04What is a VPN
- 4:02Advantages of VPN
- 6:00Accessing VPN information
- 7:00HTTP and SSL
- 10:10Government attack
- 11:30Trust
- 12:25Examples
- 17:02Numbers
- 21:01Transparency
- 22:29The VPN Company
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