Hi privacy fans :) I’ve been a lurker in this lemmy-community for a while now and a “fan” of privacy for about 4 years now. Since 4 years, I’ve been on and of with VPNs. Sometimes I think I dont need one, sometimes I change my mind and start searching for one. The only one I tested (and used) so far, was Mullvad. But now reading about Surfshark, I was wondering, if there might be a better solution or if Mullvad is already the best solution for VPN. What I dont like about Surfshark is, that it is part of North Security and that it is not open-source (or at least I can find any info about that).

I hope you guy and gals have some suggestions or recommendation :)

Edit: wow… thanks for all of your fast replies. Coming from Reddit, I am used to only removedposting. Thanks for all your input. I will look into all the mentioned VPN hosters, thx 👍

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
    81·
    4 months ago

    I mean it is always better to have more open source. But the point of the multi-hop system is that you don’t need to trust the server. Even if the server was open source:

    1. You wouldn’t know that we are running an unmodified version.
    2. If you need to trust the server then someone could compel us to tap it or monitor it.

    The open source client is enough to verify this and the security of the whole scheme.