I wonder how useful this is behind Chinas firewalll
Customers are confirming it still works, but I cannot say if it will keep working in the future.
Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands
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#92Feedback: Installing a dedicated app is a blocker for me, and I imagine it is for people more paranoid about security. I would prefer to use Tunnelblick + a config file.
Thanks for the feedback, we have example OpenVPN config files available for advanced users: https://www.wifimask.com/contact#androidwindows
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#93Downloaded the app on MacOS but it isn't compatible with password manager, unable to copy/paste to the input fields. So it's no go
I have seen this throughout macOS lately with other apps too, a rightclick will show you the paste option btw. Meanwhile I will investigate this, thanks!
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
All servers are purchased from Digital Ocean only at the moment. I think it is very important to buy servers from a thrustworthy party especially in the VPN business, even if that means we pay a little bit extra. VPN is a brutal business. But because we are bootstrapped and thus no screaming investors/banks behind our backs and we are a small team, costs are low and there's no one who can pull the plug but ourselves.…
How are you going to manage bandwidth costs? DigitalOcean are capped + 1cent/gb but your offering unlimited.... a few heavy streamers or torrents could ruin your monthly bill?
We are very flexible, if DO isn't the best choice anymore for our demands, we will look around for other options.
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#95I enjoyed the humor on the website. Good luck with the business.
Haha, thanks!
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#96I just roll my own vpn using a vps box from ovh or hetzner using repo
https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn/blob/master/docs/c... ... server setup is simple and client connections are solid ... and nobody has the logs but me
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, and if anyone wants to know, WifiMask doesn't run on Windows, it's all Linux. ;-)
What can you tell us about the rest of your stack? What language(s) do you use? What libraries do you use? What static and dynamic security analysis tools do you use? What style guides and code best practices do you use? Where do you host your code? Where are your backups? Where are your POPs located? Have you had any pen tests run?
These are a very interesting questions and invite to write more about in detail, which makes me think to write blog articles about it. Stay tuned! ;-)
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#98I just roll my own vpn using a vps box from ovh or hetzner using repo https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn/blob/master/docs/c... ... server setup is simple and client connections are solid ... and nobody has the logs but me
May I suggest to turn off logging for your own server too? :-) Anyone with physical access to the server can access the logs, maybe even when the disks are encrypted, I can imagine someone with the right knowledge can extract the key from RAM on a running server:
https://blog.appsecco.com/breaking-full-disk-encryption-from...
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Do you know anything about how or if Mullvad cooperates with domestic and foreign entities? I am not aware of this, but unlike the majority of VPN providers, Mullvad at least does not require any personally identifiable information, such as an email address, in order to use it. And most VPN providers that hide their real locations, such as ExpressVPN (Hong Kong)[1], NordVPN and ProtonVPN (both Lithuania)[2], are ju…
Yes... at this point, IMO, there are no VPN providers that can be trusted to not sell you out (or your data). It's all very shady. As I have said in previous comments, I currently use ProtonVPN, but my use case, like many others, is simply avoiding geo-blocks and not leaving my real IP everywhere. Though, I do think, that if they make money off my data, and they probably do, the service should not charge a subscripti…
How does a VPN make money off data?
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes... at this point, IMO, there are no VPN providers that can be trusted to not sell you out (or your data). It's all very shady. As I have said in previous comments, I currently use ProtonVPN, but my use case, like many others, is simply avoiding geo-blocks and not leaving my real IP everywhere. Though, I do think, that if they make money off my data, and they probably do, the service should not charge a subscripti…
How does a VPN make money off data?