fuller is such a soft ass little baby <| sep |> Which is fine in principle , unless you A have something to hide , in which case you ' re singling yourself for investigation on and offline and B don ' t let the false sense of security let you put up personal informationbreak laws that you wouldn ' t do on an insecure connection . It ' s not about breaking laws , it ' s about protecting businesses Intellectual Property IP from criminals in an age where IP is pretty much the entirety of some businesses product . think about a company like ARM . they sell chip designs not the chips themselves so that apple and others can make their own chips . that ' s an entire business based on IP . If they aren ' t allowed to Use a VPN so that employees can access network files from their laptops how do you think they would manage to operate ? Like i said , i know they aren ' t unbreakable especially to organisations like the NSA but the NSA aren ' t going to start sealing IP or legal business secrets any time soon as it ' s not in their interests . Hell , they were tapping Angela Merkels phone , do you think they give two shits about hacking some two bit VPN ? In all fairness a phone is probably easier to hack than a VPN . but that aside , if that is indeed true , then i bet the US ambassador in Germany had a fun month or two because that is the definition of a diplomatic fuck up .