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whenever i turn on my VPN i imagine it was secretly set up as a honeypot by the NSA. it would be a perfect strategy for them: implement a low-cost, high quality VPN with great service and bandwidth, from a country with legal privacy protections. how would anyone find out?

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"Never trust any company with your privacy, always encrypt." Source: https://www.privacytools.io/

Exactly. You have to trust the owners, management, admins, any maintenance staff, hardware, OS, VPN, and distribution of it & updates to you. Oh yeah, the jurisdiction matters too. ;)

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