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   On Sun  7-Dec-2025 11:13a, Mike Powell@1:2320/105.0 said to Rug Rat:   
      
   MP> Yeah, I thought so also.  Basically, they are using a fact -- that *some*   
   MP> VPN   
   MP> providers are not safe -- to try to discourage people from using VPN at   
   MP> all.   
      
   MP> "We're from the government.  We're here to help."  :D   
      
   So, how about publishing a list of those VPN's?     
      
   Hey, let's start another conspiracy. The NSA and CIA have secretly bought VPN   
   companies to harvest data that you believed was encrypted.. :)   
      
   So, now that I am between a rock and a hard place, what do you recommend?    
   Accept the certain risk of conducting private/sensative activities on an open   
   public network, or that my the VPN I use to mitigrate that is compromised?   
      
   Hmmm..   
      
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