3/ We all know a #VPN can unblock content & maybe get around censorship...
But the consumer #VPN industry wants you to believe that magic security & privacy things happen when your internet connection runs through their servers.
2/ The playbook I'm expecting is for PR / crisis communications companies to start hiring credentialed & 'respected' researchers to lend their names to alternate-narratives of inconvenient cybersecurity incidents & hacks.
Goal: divide & politicize the field.
3/ On the political side, we've had enough recent cybersecurity-related incidents in the US alone around elections that it's surprising to me that more credentialed-but-ideologically-driven people haven't started playing dirty.