@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social
Post #3991267
2026-07-21 17:04 UTC
To respond to a lot of replies at once - the terms "privacy", "security", "censorship", "trust", "encrypted", "anonymity", "jurisdictional flexibility", and "deniability" while all sharing related domains are all technically describing very different properties.
My work and research depend on being able to treat these properties separately, and understand each in isolation (and warning that it is important to not conflate them with each other)
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@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social 2026-07-21 17:13
It is incredibly important to be specific about what properties apply in situations to be able to make the correct trade offs. An in that respect, VPNs are incapable of providing privacy - under any specific definition of privacy. They can route around censorship, they can provide security, they can permit jurisdictional and trust flexibility. But they can only do those things under very specific assumptions which require sharing additional information (albeit changing who gets what data)