lolwat.

Hey PIA, mind if I throw my little server in your datacenter? No you can't access it though. I promise it'll be properly secured! Hey! Why are you walking away?

Very true! Unfortunately, your RPi is going to have only one user in responsible for traffic. Commercial VPN providers act as a multiplexer to hide who is responsible for what traffic. Ideally you'd have at least a Type III anonymous remailer mixing your traffic, but then you're dealing with much higher latency. As with everything, there is a compromise between the effort required to break a security system, the ease of detecting such a break, and the burden of using the system.

I'm not sure what point you're making about colo and transit costs. Are you saying that operating your own has higher costs? Or that a commercial VPN provider has higher costs? I'd be very interested in a price analysis that beats PIA while offering a remotely similar security profile. Keeping an RPi at your house provides defense against totally different threats.

> PIA state they don’t keep logs on their servers, they can’t provide those guarantees on the network as they don’t run the networks they operate on.

Do you have a source on this?