The Internet came to life as a computer network connecting the military first, then academia. Then, a little more than a couple of decades ago, the Internet went public, packaging the world into bits and pixels. As a result, more than half of the world’s population currently has internet access. It’s been a revolution compared to Gutenberg’s mobile-type printer. It’s a source of information, expression, art, and support for billions of users everywhere.
The Internet created an environment in which some old problems do not exist anymore. However, that same environment, new in the human experience, has also developed novel problems of its own. The intrusion into the user’s privacy is one such issue. It’s so easy to spy on somebody’s online behavior if you know just a little about digital technology that you don’t need to be a hacker, a nerd, or an expert anymore.
However, privacy is not a lost cause. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) solve the problem of privacy for internet users by doing two things primarily: hiding a user’s private IP address and encrypting all the user’s traffic.
The Reliable Unlimited Secure (RUS) VPN service is the VPN industry’s new kid on the block, so in this article, I review it to find out if it is indeed as reliable, unlimited, and secure as its name promises. So, now I start with my RusVPN service review.
RusVPN’s background
RusVPN is not even a couple of years old yet. Iron Media Group Limited incorporated it under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Dominica.
On the Internet, where national borders do not count for much, we tend to dismiss a service’s country of origin. That’s often irrelevant, but not when it comes to privacy protection.
Let’s be clear on this: any business must honor and respect its local laws. For example, suppose a VPN is based in a country hostile to digital privacy (like the 14 Eyes Surveillance Alliance). In that case, the ability of that VPN to keep your data away from the government is limited, to say the least. This is why I don’t favor VPNs headquartered in the US, the UK, and other such countries, even if they provide a decent and cost-effective service. I can’t trust a VPN not to infringe on my privacy if its law requires it to do exactly that. In a gist, your VPN’s country of origin makes a difference.