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Free Dissociation
Personal blog · free-dissociation.com/blogsecurityaiphilosophy
Free Dissociation is a personal blog at free-dissociation.com about security, ai and philosophy. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on VPN security, including a VPN Report reviewing top providers and advice on which VPNs to use. HN commenters discuss the reviews and the security advice in the posts.
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Most-linked posts?
- /blog/posts/2017/03/quick-and-dirty-vpn-advice/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-10
What Hacker News says?
When I'm providing security advice to a general audience, I can't expect people to reliably follow detailed instructions. "Oh, use VyperVPN, except you have to use OpenVPN, except on iOS where you're forced to use IPsec, and <detailed description of crypto settings follows>." I can tell them one thing: use Cloak. And I know that, no matter how they do so , they won't be less safe than they would have been without it…
Comment linking /blog/posts/2017/04/public-health-and-security-advice/
on “VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs”Submitted What we're talking about, when we talk about data destruction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRegarding the blog post you shared [0] > In general, US persons today on residential broadband are safest not using a VPN. > Only connect to US-based VPN servers while in the US. Even if your VPN provider offers servers outside the US. What? No reasons given. Smells like FUD. [0] https://free-dissociation.com/blog/posts/2017/03/quick-and-d...
Comment linking /blog/posts/2017/03/quick-and-dirty-vpn-advice/
on “VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs”Submitted What AI Safety Should Be as a story · 1 points
HN discussionlololol. Half of these VPN vendors show up on Kenn White's VPN Hall of Shame for offering unsafe configurations: https://gist.github.com/kennwhite/1f3bc4d889b02b35d8aa For anything actually sensitive, you're better off not using a VPN than using a VPN which provides an unsafe configuration. If you'd rather not do your own pager duty for something like Algo, here's a recommendation I put together a while ago: https:/…
Comment linking /blog/posts/2017/03/quick-and-dirty-vpn-advice/
on “VPN Report – Reviews of the top VPNs”Submitted Why Is It So Hard to Build Safe Software? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A lot of our security advice is crap. Here's the start of a better model as a story · 1 points
HN discussion