Understandable, though Verizon or ATT are unlikely to kick your door in and kill your dog or drone strike youtexas yankee wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2019 5:45 pm "If the Feds are cracking them regularly, it is probably through workarounds like inside the firewall "taps" or cooperation of the entities you're doing business with" - at this point, I assume that anything and everything I say or do, and places I go, are being watched or listened to - as in "Enemy of the State" - the old crime bosses had it right, they only communicated on substantive matters by speaking face to face, and only with people they trusted. I want a VPN to keep my ISP and cellular service out of my business - as well as some guy with a WiFi sniffer in a Starbucks when I'm on the road somewhere.
FWIW, I'm leaning towards NordVPN - thanks for the thoughts.
With Chromebook you’re also at the mercy of your cloud providers for keeping their paws off your data. There are some email providers that don’t keep any keys to the information you have on their servers. Only you have the key. Google and Microsoft on the other hand likely mine your data to sell you stuff or sell your (hopefully anonymized) data. I have a Chromebook too, but Google gave it to me because I am consulting to them for my company
. I assume anything I do on it they’re watching and they have it locked down so I can’t install any unapproved apps, like VPN. Tor browser is also very secure, unless you believe as some do that it was created by the US government originally, US Navy with a back door. Anyway I’ve heard NordVPN and ExpressVPN are very good and OpenVPN if you’re computer tech savvy and like to set up your own stuff. Also think about getting a router for home that supports a vpn directly on the router if you want to lock every connection in you’re home down, though you’re still at the mercy of WiFi encryption protocols.