Great points thanks for taking the time to comment.

Yeah, I don't recommend encrypting or partitioning a drive in this post. Basically, I just wanted to introduce people to VC and how it can be used for encrypting relatively small amounts of data.

Good points on the VPNs, and I agree that using TOR for recon is how it is best used.

The thing with VPNs though is sometimes people live in countries where the government blocks a lot of websites, and also desire to download files or info that they are prevented from accessing. So, in this case i recommend people to pay for a VPN as they can download with P2P. Of course, you are correct that the companies are tracking our activity, so it is up to us to do our homework and find reputable VPN providers.