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Re: Free Open Source VPN – Curve25519,ChaCha20 – WireGuard and OpenVPN

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Post by AtmaBhava » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 5:32 AM UTC

craftyguy wrote: post #2

People should be highly skeptical of "free" VPN and proxy services. They have the power to (easily) MITM you.

Absolutely, that's why I recommend only using OpenInternetAccess

Re: Free Open Source VPN – Curve25519,ChaCha20 – WireGuard and OpenVPN

#12

Post by AtmaBhava » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 5:33 AM UTC

em-bee wrote: post #10

craftyguy wrote: post #2

People should be highly skeptical of "free" VPN and proxy services. They have the power to (easily) MITM you.

how so? they can track where i am connecting to, but that's about it.

That's also true, especially in the case of end-to-end asymmetrical encryption such as SSL.

Re: Free Open Source VPN – Curve25519,ChaCha20 – WireGuard and OpenVPN

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Post by AtmaBhava » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 5:33 AM UTC

dbcooper wrote: post #3

Who are these people?

Geniuses

Re: Free Open Source VPN – Curve25519,ChaCha20 – WireGuard and OpenVPN

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Post by AtmaBhava » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 5:35 AM UTC

InvaderFizz wrote: post #5

OpenVPN and WireGuard config pages download each other's configs. Also, keys are invalidated weekly and behind a CAPTCHA, so good luck automating the process of getting new keys weekly.

Could be automated by using a captcha service, I think just a few pennies per thousand of verifications.

Re: Free Open Source VPN – Curve25519,ChaCha20 – WireGuard and OpenVPN

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Post by rlv-dan » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 5:43 AM UTC

AtmaBhava wrote: post #11

craftyguy wrote: post #2

People should be highly skeptical of "free" VPN and proxy services. They have the power to (easily) MITM you.

Absolutely, that's why I recommend only using OpenInternetAccess

Citation Needed

Re: Free Open Source VPN – Curve25519,ChaCha20 – WireGuard and OpenVPN

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Post by AtmaBhava » Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 5:46 AM UTC

rlv-dan wrote: post #15

AtmaBhava wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely, that's why I recommend only using OpenInternetAccess

Citation Needed

If you are really paranoid, then why not use their Tor VPN?

Re: Free Open Source VPN – Curve25519,ChaCha20 – WireGuard and OpenVPN

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Post by craftyguy » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 3:09 AM UTC

em-bee wrote: post #10

craftyguy wrote: post #2

People should be highly skeptical of "free" VPN and proxy services. They have the power to (easily) MITM you.

how so? they can track where i am connecting to, but that's about it.

They can intercept DNS, they can snoop on cert names, they can monitor any unencrypted traffic (you'd be surprised how much there is even when you think you're hitting every site with HTTPS..)