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What's up, guys? So we have a question today from Rabbi Abraham, who says, "Can you elaborate on the topic of a VPN and Tor?" I know there are some VPN providers touting they don't keep logs of your activity, etc., but I'm not sure how credible those comments are.
Totally understandable. You know, at the end of the day, a for-profit business, which, you know, if you think, if you really think about it, like, you know, some of the most successful CEOs have the closest kind of personality types with, like, you know, socio and psychopaths, you know, they're just merciless, relentless, cutthroat, you know, very ambitious, very driven people. And, you know, for the most part, corporations are the same way. Corporations are, by definition, psychopathic entities because, you know, nine times out of ten, meaning all companies like this, but nine times out of ten, their goal is profit, you know, profit for them, profit for their shareholders. And they don't care about the social, economic, you know, like, none of the impacts that exist matter. The only thing that matters is that bottom line. And that's something that we see, you know, on a pretty regular basis as far as companies go.
So I would say to you, Rabbi, if you like, you know, in all seriousness, man, like if you like want a good idea of how much you can trust, you know, these these companies, I don't trust any of them. But if you want to trust them, first off, I would say it's, you know, screwing up your opsec already because you're, you know, you have faith in something which is blind trust. That's bad, bad, especially if you're doing something illegal, like you're literally jeopardizing your life and putting your life in the hands of a company who profits off you buying their product. They don't give a shit about you or, you know, like you think that they're going to not allow the Department of Homeland Security to check out one of their servers or, you know, set up something malicious on their server to protect you? You mean like that? They don't. First off, they don't care. They can not keep logs all day. But at the end of the day, like, you know, those servers are taken over. It's like cancer, you know?
You know, the the darknet market, Hansa, was raided, is taken over by feds, and they implemented different things that did, you know, kind of take away the obscurity that existed. You know, they did things like they made it so that, you know, they had an auto-encrypt button, which is a horrible feature for a darknet market ad. But basically, we take your address and would encrypt it for the vendor. So you didn't have to do it. Sounds great. Convenient again. Convenient security. So it's more convenient. It's less secure. And that's exactly what it was. And what ended up happening was it would take your message, it would copy it, it would store it, copy over here, and then it would encrypt it. It was sent into the darknet vendor. So now the, you know, the feds, I think, was like the German feds who had taken it over, could see the plain text address that you had. And, you know, a lot of people got raided behind that, you know, and again, it's trusting and just bad. It was too bad. I tell, you know, don't do it.
But compared to like that Big Mac or that, you know, that Wendy's burger or like the fries that you see, you know, in TV ads, you know, do they look anything like that in real life? No, usually not. You know, you are Jeffery's commercial and, you know, the lady's like holding a shirt and in ecstasy, you know, just sniffing her shirt. And it's like, do you do that? Probably not. You know? And, you know, I think if I don't know, if I walked in and I saw someone doing that, I'd be like, you know, you're a you're a fucking weirdo. You know, it's just it's what it is. My point is, these are for-profit companies. They don't, you know, they don't care. They care about making money. That's their goal. That's what it is. And you can't verify that or you can't verify they don't keep logs. You have no way to do that, you know, and that's a really bad. Hey, you don't have a way to verify that these companies, you know, aren't actually, you know, working for the feds. So Sprint and AT&T will go, that's crazy. That doesn't happen. Like, look up Sprint, look up AT&T. Look, it said tell AK Nextel, you know, like that's what it is. You know, that's an old business model that these guys do. And, you know, nowadays, you know, VPNs are the new Fed tells, you know, in my opinion.
And like you have the Tor developers telling you like, don't use a VPN, you know, unless you're you're a super advanced user, don't use a VPN. And people like, oh, there's, there's use cases for it. Yeah. Okay. I'm sure there are, you know, but the the spirit that I'm talking about using them in, you know, like using them to conduct commerce or any of those kind of things or just stay anonymous on the darknet. None of those use cases involve the need of a VPN. None of them. You know, like your everyday privacy checking out, you know, Gmail and YouTube and Facebook and show you a VPN. Yeah. How you use a VPN. Absolutely. I would absolutely advise you do that. You know, it's a great, it's another additional layer of security and you're not, you know, doing anything that you have to worry about. You know, but when you're talking about committing, you know, felonies and, you know, doing it on an international level or or national level, yeah, that's I would not blindly trust anyone. Anyone know. I think it's a very bad idea. So yeah, that's, that's one of the reasons why I say stay away from it.
Like at the end of the day, they get paid to sell you a service. They don't, they don't get paid to protect you. And like if you, if you ever want to do kind of research on this, I think there is like I know Shapeshift audio back when it was daddio, now it's something different. A lot of these companies, what I'll end up doing is I'll just plug into Google like the name of the company, commerce, space, you know, federal or, you know, I'll look for, you know, like different things where it's like, you know, they're subpoenaed or they're called or, you know, you can go on to like Google Scholar and search for like keywords, you know, with that company. And like if it's used in evidence in a federal case, you might maybe pull it up. Worst case, they might pull it up and you might you might be able to see it. So you can have some idea about how you some way to verify this, you know, because that's really the only way you can do it. I'm sure there's a million other ways. A lot of people out there are a lot more qualified, more intelligent than me. But like, you know, from my standpoint, like how what I my advice to you would be like, like, yeah, like that's I mean, really, there's no I don't see how much further in depth we can go with it. If you have additional questions, definitely let me know. But that's like one of the reasons why I say, you know, absolutely stay away from the VPNs because you don't know who owns the company. You don't know how truthful they're being when they're telling you, making these claims about, you know, you being safe for them, not keeping logs and, you know, all this other nonsense.
You know, I just I dislike the idea of handing over my security, my possible future, and my life to a for-profit company who, you know, is is claiming that for five bucks to three bucks or ten bucks or a hundred bucks a month, they'll make sure I don't go to prison. What happens if they don't follow through with that? What's my recourse? I don't think anything. That's something to think about. You know, I would analyze that and, you know, then think about like who gets subpoenaed with Tor? How do you subpoena open-source software? Go Twitter, feed the VPN, use the VPN for your Gmail, your Facebook, you know, YouTube, all that crap. Use it for that crap. You know, avoid those ads, you know, if your VPN is malware, you know, blocking the user for that. But don't use it to try to keep yourself safe if you're doing anything even kind of nefarious on the darknet or considering it, you know, and then consider how are you paying? How are you paying for this VPN using a credit card? You know, like I know I'm using crypto. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, but you got it. You got the crypto on Coinbase, dude. Like, you might as well just tell the feds what you're going to do because Coinbase is, you know, like I digress.
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