20 sats \ 1 reply \ @viktorv OP 19 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: IVPN Light: short-term VPN access priced in sats, paid with Lightning bitcoin
Thanks! While the idea has merit due to the benefit of looking like a residential IP which would solve a lot of VPN use issues, it could face reliability/speed and also privacy/trust issues. If a customer exits on your egress their potentially isolated, unencrypted traffic is liable to inspection by an entity they don't know and cannot vet - of course you won't learn their source IPs if they enter at an IVPN server, but it still introduces uncertainty. I think the risk-reward tradeoff is not good for privacy conscious users, while others might not be able to assess it properly.
I agree for the most part, however I think using lightning one could theoretically come up with an incentive structure to make this work, if traffic out of the tunnel is encrypted(unencrypted traffic is an issue so point well taken), tls interception could be an issue, but would throw warnings on most modern browsers/clients. But I do agree this could cause a lot of issues with non-technical users. I worked on the AWS cloudformation team as a Security engineer, I may go check out your github and see if I can help out in anyway.
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