This may not be an actual “Wyden siren,” but it still has his name attached to it. What’s being said here isn’t nearly as ominous as this single sentence he sent to CIA leadership earlier this year
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So are VPNs not worth using other then to bypass location restrictions?
VPNs are good for torrenting without getting nasty letters from your ISP. Self hosted VPNs are good for securely accessing your home network remotely.
You could also use i2p with encrypted lease sets if you want to hide your home IP address when remoting in.
Just keep in mind it will be very obvious you are using i2p
lots of reasons incl. home network availability, no need to trust the VPN provider, nice central place you can run adblock/pihole, …