Nathan For You - Fixing Computer Repair

"Obviously a VPN provider can also do this, but you might hope they're less likely to." So you have identified some marginal privacy issue, and have identified that a VPN doesn't solve it, but rather that it moves the risk to a third party actor you subjectively feel is better. Well I feel that, subjectively, introducing a third party generally decreases security. I believe that not all privacy and security considerations can or should be solved technically, but rather we have extra-technical mechanisms like law and social norms that provide some protection on the edge cases. For example, an employee cannot lookup information for personal reasons on a system they are entrusted to in a professional capacity. I'm no expert, but you probably have first laws that prohibit that, second corporate policy that prohibits that, and thirdly social pressure that prohibits that to some extent. Are they perfect? Not necessarily which is why for the most part we rely on technical encryption and security mechanisms. But at some point these examples become so contrived and the medicine becomes the poison, so you enter into territory that is pretty standard in other industries, what's to stop a waiter from spitting into a cup? There's no spit filter in place of McDonalds, there's other mechanisms protecting us. On a similar note, logic and debate is not the only way to convey this phenomenon, so here's some more artistic retort to privacy schizophrenia. [this video]