If the dVPNs themselves are to be believed they’re actually safer than regular VPNs, is that true?
The short answer is that the jury’s still out, but probably not.
To figure out why that is, let’s start with a quick crash course on VPN security.
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There are several different ones, like OpenVPN or WireGuard, and each will do things slightly differently.
The upshot is that your connection is secure through theVPN tunnelfrom end to end.
There’s no way for the ISP or the site you visit to crack the encryption keeping you safe.
The only weakness of VPNs are the VPNs themselves, through their logs.
These are calledlogs, not unlike the records a ship’s captain keeps.
As such, when you use a VPN, you’re trusting the service to destroy its logs.
Think of nodes as places where you’re able to enter and exit the dVPN data pipe.
However, if this is how dVPNs work, then they share a very important weakness with Tor.
The final node, called the exit node, can see which sites you’re connecting to.
Keeping Exit Nodes “Blind”
This is an issue that Tor and dVPNs both struggle with.
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This is, effectively, a way to keep connections secret.
Other than that, though, the whitepaper is very miserly with details of how security works.
Are dVPNs More Secure?
That said, it’s not quite like they’re less secure, either.
For example, to be anonymous, you gotta connect through multiple nodes.
This is a killer for your speed, making dVPNs a lot less pleasant to use.
