• Schwim Dandy@piefed.zip
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        3 days ago

        I can see an argument that the exit node is someone else’s computer. An an example of this risk, honeypot Tor exit nodes.

        In this context, however, I would trust Mullvad’s exit nodes, I think. Well, do trust them, since I use them, just not for anything that would get me in hot water.

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          3 days ago

          Yep, pretty much all servers are. You could say that about anything. Lemmy is just someone else’s computer. Wikipedia is just someone else’s computer. 100% of network infrastructure is just someone else’s computer.

          It’s actually least accurate for VPN in general than anything else, because it’s common to host a VPN for access to a local network and homelab services, or corporate network and internal work-related services, in which case the VPN server is not someone else’s computer.