@variants@possumpat.io
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I thought you don’t need a VPN for things like usenet

LifeBandit666
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Meh my Usenet provider also partners with a VPN provider. Still costs me £5 a month for the VPN but I may as well use it, I like having a VPN

@psud@aussie.zone
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Your ISP sees the connection to news.usenetserver.com and if they cared could get a court order to get your data from them. They can compel you to release your username and password.

You also need to protect yourself against future law and enforcement

Unbecredible
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You can’t keep secrets from the future.

Heard that once in a song about how all encryption is doomed to break against future math/computing power. Great eery phrase.

@psud@aussie.zone
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You can keep secrets from the future. Future decryption won’t help government see what you did in the now, the logs don’t store the encrypted payload, only the end points and the user/ip

@GameEnder@reddthat.com
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If your provider supports SSL and you actually turn it on then no technically don’t need a VPN for Usenet.

this is dangerous advice. courts can still subpoena the usenet provider for your information.

@Petter1@lemm.ee
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I guess, that depends on the legislative of your country, maybe they see all interactions with usenet providers as illegal, and if you are not using a VPN they see what IP you talk to. But in the other hand, in such countries, using (foreign) VPNs may also be illegal🤔

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