What Is a Double VPN, and Does It Even Work?
90% overhead, a high price.
A double VPN is a method to provide additional in transit security for a connection by tunneling a VPN within a second VPN. The idea is that the VPN sessions are more difficult to break using man-in-the-middle attacks. Dual VPN’s also provides some improvement in back tracking your original IP address.
If you use two different vendors for each VPN (defense in depth) hacks to one VPN vendor will not grant you access to the raw traffic and hacking the second layer is more difficult without having two man-in-the-middle access points.
Some government agencies use this method to protect Secret level data over using more expensive proprietary routers as part of the Solutions for Classified Environments.
I’m behind 7 proxies
It’s like putting 2 condoms on. If one breaks the other might might still protect youl.
VPNs are useless you want to access georestricted content or bypass government censorship. If you really want privacy online use Tor, a free and open source browser that acts similar to a VPN but actually protects your privacy.
Where can I subscribe to get double vpn protection for anonymous tracking
Trace buster buster buster buster buster buster buster.
Meh, 2 condoms is actually worse as the friction will break both condoms.
I hear it’s been compromised. Also vpns are faster. There are trade offs. And vpns can be used for different purposes than just web browsing
Tor was sponsored by the NSA. Go ahead, make their day.
How to tell everyone you have no idea what you’re talking about without telling everyone you have no idea what you’re talking about:
Make bold claims about Tor’s security as a replacement for encrypted VPN’s.
I hear it’s been compromised.
Sigh… This is how misinformation spreads.
Tor nodes handled by bad actors have been a thing since 2008, which is why they recommend VPN-Tor
I hear it’s been compromised. Also vpns are faster. There are trade offs. And vpns can be used for different purposes than just web browsing
Depends. The issue with Tor is you use those relays, but don’t control them yourself. If someone has control of those relays, you can’t really trust that your data is really safe. At least, that was what happened/was going down at the time. I think that’s changed though. In the past, the government/law enforcement got control of some nodes, which meant those nodes were no longer secure. This is why EVERY piece of advice on TOR pretty much from the start has been “Don’t completely trust TOR alone for privacy”. That goes for anything. Doesn’t matter how good one service or solution is, you combine multiple so you don’t have a cascading failure situation.
Bottom line is, no matter what if you can’t trust the person running the server, it doesn’t matter what tools/services you end up using usually. That doesn’t mean Tor or VPN’s are bad, as trust/verification are large parts of security in any industry/program/area of expertise.
It was never sponsored by the NSA, It was originally designed as a secure form of communication for some military bodies, which is completely different to sponsored by the NSA.
So it’s been compromised from its original state
I guess I should’ve said it’s only been compromised since '08
Pretty sure it’s not an issue with relays as they only handle encrypted traffic, the issue is with the exit node, not the relay
Yes. I got it wrong. For a review of tor usability see this: Is Tor Trustworthy and Safe? (Read This Before Using Tor)