I've been thinking about the security shift from traditional centralized VPNs to decentralized P2P mesh protocols. In this model, traffic is routed through a distributed network of residential nodes instead of a company’s data center.

This seems to solve the issue of having to trust a single provider with all your logs. But I'm curious about the new risks this creates for a home or small office setup. If my traffic exits through a random peer's residential connection, I wonder what's stopping that peer from trying to sniff the traffic or run a man-in-the-middle attack.

I’m also interested in whether these randomized paths actually provide better protection against traffic analysis in a real-world scenario. Does joining such a network as a node significantly increase the attack surface of my own local network? I’d appreciate any technical thoughts on how this decentralized infrastructure changes the way we should think about network defense.