Your VPN Isn’t Enough to Protect You

Protecting your privacy is hard. Very hard. Damn near impossible

Photo by Petter Lagson on Unsplash

First, let me tell you where I’m coming from

I am a digital security professional and privacy advocate. I am a leader in my field. I’ve been at this for well over two decades, and have been on many investigative teams to track down the very people using VPNs to mask their activities.

I am against government-required encryption backdoors because I deem them unnecessary. When you see how many hoops you must jump through to get actual privacy, you will realize the simple fact that:

VPNs don’t work

(Or, at least, they aren’t nearly enough)

And therefore these encryption backdoors are unnecessary.

Below you will see the many other mechanisms law enforcement/investigators have at their disposal to find you.

What you think is happening:

You boot up your PC and launch your VPN. That VPN encrypts your traffic so that an intermediary (specifically your ISP or the hotel you are at) cannot read the traffic.

This is fine, and it works well enough.

But…what if you are doing something illegal? Maybe you are on Discord chatting with…