[tashian]

The notion of "zero trust" shouldn't just mean corporations not having to inherently trust users and networks. It should also mean users not having to inherently trust corporations.

VPN providers all run the same two or three VPN protocols, all with similar security guarantees and privacy limitations.

I've been playing with MASQUE relays over the last year. Apple's iCloud Private Relay is a MASQUE relay (two, actually). MASQUE can offer genuine privacy improvements via traffic separation, preventing any single party from correlating the traffic source and destination.

Some of the privacy concerns of VPN users can be mitigated with better technology. And relays are built into Apple operating systems today. I'm surprised that they aren't very widely deployed yet.

[chneu]

I have no idea why people, especially in the United States, trust companies so much. I bump elbows with a lot of different crowds(rural, urban, conservative, liberal, etc) so I have a pretty decent sample size and without fail most people trust companies waaaay too much. Then they're shocked when a company lets them down because the company could make more money.

Stop trusting companies. They only care about 3 month profits.