I've been using Mullvad for years as a permanently-connected VPN and I find it excellent. I do use a subscription, but I have a friend who sends them cash in an envelope by snail mail and loves it.
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PIA before the Kape acquisition was owned by parent company London Trust Media. The owner is Andrew Lee, who was best buddies with Mark Karpeles responsible for the MtGox collapse and defrauding all the users of the exchange. Unfortunately the Japanese government let him out of jail and Andrew Lee decided to make his old friend the CTO of the company. Andrew Lee is also the guy behind the shady "sale" of the nonprofi…
Wait, Andrew Lee, despoiler of Freenode, also associated with the MtGox guy?! The weirder bits of the internet are apparently extremely incestuous.
Birds of a feather and all that.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/why-i-hired-mt-go...
That's the same rasengan you'll occasionally see on HN.
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> You can mail them cash with account info and they'll set you up If I wanted to self-host a VPN, I would still need to pay for a cloud provider. Is there an equivalent cash (snail mail) offering for hosting?
nearlyfreespeech.net
NFSN allows you to host websites but last I checked they won't just give you a server for you to run whatever you like.
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#384Does someone know if they are splitting the dns request and the traffic? Or do they need to decrypt my traffic to get to my dns request?
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I've read some articles online, but I still haven't managed to understand the hype around wireguard. It's lighter than OpenVPN, but has more obscure primitives? Doesn't seem like a great trade off...
It is also much faster and allows p2p networks
What does "allow p2p networks" mean exactly?
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Perhaps a Swede can chime in, but I'd imagine Sweden has a lax regulatory approach, e.g. compare the fates of PRQ and Megaupload. It's, admittedly inexplicably, concerning that we've driven people to foreign companies (from American ones) due to government surveillance. It begs the question: under what conditions would a consumer be fine ceding privacy? Transparency? Remuneration?
Not really. See the trial against the founders of The Pirate Bay for example, and the controversies surrounding it. Also, the FRA surveillance. Also, according to the ISP Bahnhof, the police at least used to submit lots of data requests without a court order and for non-serious crimes. AIUI, Bahnhof and other VPN providers stay in the clear by avoiding storage of data in the first place. They can be compelled to hand…
> At least there's nothing like the Australian laws for forcing and gagging developers.
Actually I'm not so sure that's true. I'm pretty sure similar gag orders have been mentioned in episodes of P1's Gräns. Might want to double check that...
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> Hadn't heard of Mullvad before reading this Just the only vpn with any integrity left remaining, no biggie.
AirVPN seems to be quite good, and ethical.
I've been using AirVPN for many years now and is has always been reliable and fast for me. Recently they introduced Wireguard support.
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#388Why are VPNs what people flock to when they think they want privacy? Moreover they kinda break the internet so it's not a scalable solution. It's cool to see a good one selling a privacy message and doing it at level 11, but it seems kinda disingenuous to me to tell users that they're more private because they use a VPN. Private from your current ISP, sure, but not from Mullvad (they're your new ISP, you're just movi…
What do you flock to when you want privacy?
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Presumably there are details linking together payments coming from Paypal and the account number. And obviously there is a link between account number and forwarded port. So following with that, you'd be able to make the connection between the account number and Paypal account, which is definitely not private nor even pretending to protect your privacy.
Maybe but doesn't all of that apply equally to just about any payment method other than sending them cash anonymously?
As far as I am aware, Mulvad only holds on to the payment details for a few weeks and then deletes it so the idea is that you 'age' the account for that time period and then can Torrent Linux ISO's on the forwarded port to your hearts content with any payment information long since deleted. I don't currently use them but am considering switching to them for this reason.
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Would a 3rd party audit work? https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2021/1/20/no-pii-or-privacy-leak...
That’s very good. But what do I know about “Cure53” other than they are saying “Yea, trust them bro”. Is Cure53 incorruptible? Would there be any blip in the world if they were not and Mull was really an NSA op? I’m not saying I don’t trust Mull over say, Nord. I am saying the nature of the whole thing is non-falsifiable with our existing technologies. We can only determine who was lying by looking back after an inci…
cure53 has an impeccable reputation and delivered some of the best security analysis there is.
Most of them are also public and on github.