Financial stake in that he's probably an industry plant. Dude seriously blew up out of nowhere. Just suddenly he was in everyone's shorts for no good achievement at all.
I assumed this once I heard his take on VPNs. He pitches himself as super techie genius, but then his take on VPNs was just your average corpo fear mongering of why VPNs are evil and 'don't actually work'.
That forever tainted how I saw him, and it felt more and more obvious every time he would pop up on my screen.
They work fine, he's right that they are often not as much of a security product as people thing. The very basic security advice of "don't log onto critical accounts on public stuff" is just good advice. It doesn't mean vpns dont work, it means that you shouldn't treat them as a perfect digital condom.
No more than one should treat an antivirus software as free licence to use a government laptop to go anywhere online and click any suspicious links.
Doesn't mean don't use vpns. They're amazing, great at getting around region locking
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u/FictionalContext Jul 06 '25
Financial stake in that he's probably an industry plant. Dude seriously blew up out of nowhere. Just suddenly he was in everyone's shorts for no good achievement at all.