Threads for nullpid
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The biggest block I find to uptake of these messengers and call apps that so often come and go is the lack of mobile applications. Until there’s an Android and iOS app, my friends and family won’t use it.
I don’t like it, but it appears to be the world we’re in now.
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It seems like it already has an android app? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cx.ring
Could not find anything for iOS: https://ring.cx/en/download
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Oooh I didn’t spot that for some reason. I’ll keep an eye out for an iOS app then.
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There’s a source code repos, but no release. https://gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com/#/admin/projects/ring-client-ios
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This is my one concern with VPN providers. It’s about trust. Unless I pay a reasonable amount per month, I would expect a business to find other influx of income to offset their costs (and/or, you know, make more money, because that’s essentially what businesses do).
With that in mind, how do you trust a VPN to protect your traffic? Short of hosting one yourself (preferably on a computer you physically own in a locked box, in a vault, underground, with armed guards, automated face-recognition-enabled turrets, attack parrots…)
VPN-as-a-business, to me, is shady AF.
Depends what you want your traffic protected from (‘security’ is meaningless unless it’s security against some outcome).
I trust AWS staff vastly more than I trust my ISP’s staff, but they are still gonna hand over my details to the government if they get a warrant (and perhaps even without one).
Even if you pay that reasonable amount p/m you still can’t be sure.
Hosting your own VPN solution is the best approach indeed. Use your monitoring tools to verify that traffic goes as it should and you are probably on a good path.
It would be nice if you could earn some time and pay for a good VPN service that you could trust but this is far from true.
Selfhosting a VPN just shunts the issue to a different ISP, right?
If I host a VPN on AWS, Comcast can no longer see my traffic but Amazon can.
Self host in Elbonia.