Privacy Tools – Encryption Against Global Mass Surveillance
>All [vpn] providers listed here are outside the US, use encryption, accept Bitcoin, support OpenVPN and have a no logging policy.Yes but how does the average person really know if those suggested foreign VPNs are not CIA or other government coordinated honeypots?In terms of cyberspace cat & mouse games, I think VPNs can be useful to evade Netflix streaming restrictions to particular countries or to hide your DNS queries from your ISP.  You don't need a lot of trust in VPN entities to evade commercial businesses.However, using VPNs to evade government surveillance is a whole different ballgame.  Because of the far reaching tentacles of government agencies, there's no reliable method to determine which VPN to trust.