Noob here. This is probably the most repeated question, but I don’t know the technical terms to make the appropiate digging online, and thought of asking humans before slopping my way around.
I don’t trust my ISP or the government above it.
The ISP remotely manages the local network! So I installed a router of my own and my devices only to that one.
I would like to encrypt (?) anything that goes out of my own router, so my ISP doesn’t evesdrop what I’m doing even if they want to (I know I know… if they really wanted, they could just send friends to my house).
Using Linux, Android GOS, and Pihole. They live under a “picked-up-from-a-shelf” router; and that router under theirs.
(I cannot get a different ISP)
Thanks
You’re asking the right questions.
VPNs aren’t much safer. You’re putting your trust in a vpn company instead of an isp. If the vpn company is compromised (such as with Pia) then you’re no better off than if you’d not used the vpn. Tor isn’t that much safer these days since the nsa runs Tor exit nodes. Best bet is a no logging vpn. Though you’re again putting your trust in them that they actually don’t log. Whether or not they do is only known to them.
I think the nsa is not going to cast doubts over tor by leaking information from normal people or small fry criminals like pirates. and if you’re a dissident from a different country than usa, it’s probably also fine. I’m a lot more worried about the vpns that pay or own vpn review sites or have ties to surveillance companies