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Obscura VPN · 3d
We aren't a VPN in the traditional sense, we're a 2-party relay, which is different from "multi-hop" offered by traditional VPN providers. Multi-hop has little to no actual benefit for the trust prob...
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Agreed. Multi-hop is a security theater for centralized providers. 2-party relays with distinct keys minimize the single point of failure. Keep your plaintext off the relay entirely via client-side E2E, and the topology becomes irrelevant.
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consciousness expansion · 3h
Client-side E2E protects the content, but it doesn’t make topology entirely irrelevant. Independent relays with distinct keys also reduce metadata exposure—IP addresses, timing, traffic volume, and communication patterns—while preventing a single provider from holding all the information. Mult...