why not just host your own vpn server at your house?
If it looks you’re breaking the law, we’ll that’s normal, law enforcement has several legal options to seize your stuff. Without these legal tools, they could never arrest pedophiles, or hackers, black mailers, etc.
Might have an issue with local logs retention policy then
Because I don’t know. Please tell me how.
That’s not going to help you access the sites in other countries. It’s only going to have a limited job of hiding your machine. It’s not the same thing…
Oh yeah, well I get that. It’s just that I find it scary how in developed countries without a bill of rights comparable to that in the USA (wherein we have protections against unreasonable search and seizures, a right against self-incrimination, measures that favor individuals’ privacy, protect one from being unjustly harassed, and so on), police can just up and invade your home and confiscate your stuff if there’s even the slightest thing that piques their interest…
Not saying that OP’s case was a case of that or that the alleged CP that was found associated with his network and/or this VPN product (I don’t own one or know how they work in detail—just saw it on Indiegogo and looked it up, then found this thread amongst the first results) I don’t know the full story, and for all I know the police were justified in taking his stuff…
But based on a lot of stories I hear—many of them with good, accurate context “proving” or at strongly suggesting that was happened to the citizens/victims was unjustified (and FWIW, stories coming out of the UK in particular)—I’m more willing to give OP the benefit of the doubt and believe that he’s innocent and had nothing to do with whatever he was investigated and searched for. And it just scares me that so many people in developed countries have it that way.
Because in the U.S., it takes a lot of concrete evidence of criminality/wrongdoing before a judge will sign a search warrant to be served on a house and for devices to be confiscated… And despite this kind of protection which is very well appreciated by those of us who don’t like being harassed or having potentially corrupt/incompetent authorities get free reign to do basically whatever they want to us and our property/belongings, our law enforcement agencies still manage to do enough to identify, investigate, and catch pedophiles with CP, child molesters, hackers, and all that… I’m no expert, but it seems like the difference is that it just requires a little more legwork on behalf of those authorities, to get the proof of criminality, have search warrants approved, and etc., before they can go “weapons-free” on the suspected (and now near proven) bad guys…
I dunno man. I wouldn’t be surprised if you disagree with the sentiments I’ve tried to convey in my comment this. It may be a cultural thing, wherein we each “don’t know we don’t know” the merits to each system, and vice versa. But it just strikes me as a really scary and unfair thing, the policies many countries have in regard to this stuff… I’m wholeheartedly opposed to the mentality of “You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to my to hide” and am very, very grateful for the vast, near-bulletproof protections we have in the U.S., against the police having free reign to turn the country into the kind of the place where stories like OP’s would commonplace. Because believe me, they (by and large) hate that we have these protections.
You could say that best-case, they hate it because they would rather not have to do the extra work required to prove that search & seizures are justified before carrying them out.
But I also suspect that a lot of them hate it simply because they have Authoritarian power-trip fantasies and want to be able to bend citizens to their will, regardless of whether there’s any reasonable (let alone proven/justified) cause for suspicion or search/seizure/detaining/etc.
it’s been posted a lot in the r/digitalnomad forum, lots of instructions available to do it.
AFAIK in the UK ISPs are required by law to record the traffic of all customers.
If your connection is recorded going to a known bad site then it’s pretty much a no brainier for a judge to give the go ahead. If a suspect has any suspicion that they’re likely to get caught what’s to stop them from purging the content and claiming that it was the DPN or a TOR user.
This being said I’m not a fan of having my traffic logged by my ISP. I always really liked the idea of TOR a while back, but unfortunately stories like this expose the fact that whilst it can be a great tool, any great tool can be used for malicious purposes.
I went through a few posts there and most look like the VPN help the person travelling to look like they’re at home.
Is there a way for me to be at home but look like I’m in another country?
Can’t help you there my use case was looking like I was at home. Commericial vpns can do that not sure about your setting up a vpn server being able to do that.
You can rent a server in that country and run a VPN on it. Note that this won’t really give you full privacy (server can be traced to you), but it will make traffic look like it’s coming from that country.