Comment on Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically?

Agility0971@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• oeuf@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Website is someone else’s computer.

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• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wrong. VPN is the encrypted tunnel between your computer and someone else’s computer.

  You’re thinking of a VPS.

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  • Agility0971@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “It’s all computer”.

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    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yep, pretty much all servers are. You could say that about anything. Lemmy is just someone else’s computer. Wikipedia is just someone else’s computer. 100% of network infrastructure is just someone else’s computer.

      It’s actually least accurate for VPN in general than anything else, because it’s common to host a VPN for access to a local network and homelab services, in which case the VPN server is not someone else’s computer.

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  • schwim@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I can see an argument that the exit node is someone else’s computer. An an example of this risk, honeypot Tor exit nodes.

    In this context, however, I would trust Mullvad’s exit nodes, I think. Well, do trust them, since I use them, just not for anything that would get me in hot water.

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