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"a native, unlimited and free VPN client, right inside your browser!" Serious question: Money wise, how are they able to afford this?
Data of course! Opera (the company) are one of the big players in mobile advertising. They have their own mobile ad platform [0], and a few years ago acquired a couple of agencies that specialise in mobile advertising [1]. [0] http://operamediaworks.com/ [1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/opera-snaps-up-mobile-theor...
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DNS is not leaked, it's a https proxy and opera passes URL there without any local resolution.
Is there a source for this claim (e.g., document from Opera, personal testing such as with Wireshark, etc.)? Are the OS overrides for DNS entries (e.g., hosts file) used at all in this case?
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What you need is a friend abroad and a raspberry pi. I have a raspberry pi attached to the wall of a home which is not my own. It's in a country where I occasionally want to be (in a geoip sense of "be"). The rpi maintains a VPN connection to me, so I can reach it even though it's behind a NAT middlebox that knows nothing about it.
You realise that you could have just given HN a new startup? I'd gladly pay someone to access a portion of their bandwidth - at least enough that I could stream content.
If they are bought out by the Chinese, does using this mean the new Chinese owners will see all your traffic?
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Isn't that fairly standard amongst the privacy respecting VPNs? We store nothing / log nothing. We'll comply with law enforcement as far as we're able (ie not at all beyond billing, email and perhaps bandwidth used). So that seems to say they'll perhaps be able to tell when you were logged in, who you are + payment info, and perhaps volumes transferred. Where and on which ports? No clue officer. Private Internet Acce…
But what happens if law enforcement specifically ask them to start recording more information?
If the courts or intelligence services tell them to capture a username's data, or access to specific websites from all users, they will do it.
If the choice is between keep quiet and do it, or potentially get shutdown or arrested, you have to assume that almost everyone will do as they are told.
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Isn't that fairly standard amongst the privacy respecting VPNs? We store nothing / log nothing. We'll comply with law enforcement as far as we're able (ie not at all beyond billing, email and perhaps bandwidth used). So that seems to say they'll perhaps be able to tell when you were logged in, who you are + payment info, and perhaps volumes transferred. Where and on which ports? No clue officer. Private Internet Acce…
But what happens if law enforcement specifically ask them to start recording more information?
Doesn't it then bring us to where we are with all other matters - wiretaps, breaking into a home with a search warrant?
Law enforcement has to get suspicion of a crime, probable cause, a warrant or what have you and be subject to all the assorted checks and balances the justice system has evolved.
That's vastly different to having all internet activity tied to an IP/account/person in vast, ever increasing, NSA/GCHQ/lots of other databases then going on a big back trawl every time a name comes up.
Couple with native adblocking I'm very tempted to switch browsers (from FF) and probably do so when available. But it just sounds too good, what is the catch?
"a native, unlimited and free VPN client, right inside your browser!" Serious question: Money wise, how are they able to afford this?
Data of course! Opera (the company) are one of the big players in mobile advertising. They have their own mobile ad platform [0], and a few years ago acquired a couple of agencies that specialise in mobile advertising [1]. [0] http://operamediaworks.com/ [1] http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/opera-snaps-up-mobile-theor...