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You're right and I don't disagree with your core thinking, except to say that everyone draws a line beyond which they'll be happy to trade some risk for some time. I understand why someone would run their own VPN, but I also understand why someone wouldn't.

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Yeah, I totally agree -- and there are a lot of very valid reasons someone might choose a service over a DIY solution.

My main point up there was just that I'm always kind of surprised and honestly have trouble believing it when I hear someone whose career is in network security say they don't trust themselves to secure a VPN server. If a person can tout creds securing an entire organization, a little ephemeral Linux instance that you can blow away and rebuild at will should be cake.

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