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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I thought you don't need a VPN for things like usenet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

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