Other than checking the hosting country, how exactly do you research a VPN? Google?
Being hosted in Hong Kong now makes you vulnerable to Chinese government snooping.
Being hosted in the US makes you vulnerable to our own government snooping.
Being hosted anywhere makes you vulnerable to the bad behavior of the people running the VPN ... either intentional or accidental (e.g. not keeping their systems secure).
Even if they're being run responsibly today, they will always be subject to the laws governing the host systems. Just look at what China is doing and what our government is trying to do.
I'm all in favor of VPN services run by corporations to get their employees safely into their internal networks. They have reasons to keep the system secure.
So of course, VPNs *can* work. But the commercial VPN services that sell to the public and are hosted in Hong Kong? Trust them?
I've been in IT on & off for 40 years. Since the Internet was still called Arpanet 
Edit history
Recommendations
0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):
= new reply since forum marked as read