Well, my point is first that they don't need to, because VPN never was about encrypting end to end communications all the way across the entire internet. An exception of course is when the VPN server is as far as one needs the traffic to travel, e.g., an employee using VPN to access corporate network resources.

That said... does the DS have backdoors or other access to perhaps a majority of standard internet communications? Well, especially since the Patriot Act, of course, and so would certain folks in privileged positions, working against the DS (who also are working to remove these DS capabilities). There also are many foreign governments, and hacking groups, and other parties with partial or limited access to pretty large swaths of internet traffic, although capacity to simultaneously and/or realtime monitor would be limited to their bandwidth and access to processing power.

That gets into another topic, which is hiding sensitive content within internet data.

Well, my point is first that they don't need to, because VPN never was about encrypting end to end communications all the way across the entire internet. An exception of course is when the VPN server is as far as one needs the traffic to travel, e.g., an employee using VPN to access corporate network resources.

That said... does the DS have backdoors to most internet communications? Well, especially since the Patriot Act, of course, and so would certain folks in privileged positions, working against the DS (who also are working to remove these DS capabilities). There also are many foreign governments, and hacking groups, and other parties with partial or limited access to pretty large swaths of internet traffic, although capacity to simultaneously and/or realtime monitor would be limited to their bandwidth and access to processing power.

That gets into another topic, which is hiding sensitive content within internet data.

Well, my point is first that they don't need to, because VPN never was about encrypting end to end communications all the way across the entire internet. An exception of course is when the VPN server is as far as one needs the traffic to travel, e.g., an employee using VPN to access corporate network resources.

That said... does the DS have backdoors to most internet communications? Yes, and so would certain folks in privileged positions, working against the DS. There also are many foreign governments, and hacking groups, and other parties with partial or limited access to pretty large swaths of internet traffic, although capacity to simultaneously and/or realtime monitor would be limited to their bandwidth and access to processing power.

That gets into another topic, which is hiding sensitive content within internet data.