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Re: FrootVPN – Surf anonymously on the Internet

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post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can buy a prepaid card in most local grocery stores in Canada, no personal info required - though you can't buy a prepaid card with a prepaid card.

Interesting ... what's the logic in that? Can you use it to get money (ATM or cashback)? I assume so, in which case this restriction makes it extra stupid.

To clarify, no you can't use it at the ATM or to get cash back.

Re: FrootVPN – Surf anonymously on the Internet

#63

I always chuckle when I see a VPN service claim no logging. While it's probably true, they can't ever prove to you that that's actually the case, which makes the claim moot for anyone who actually cares about their privacy.

Until somebody gets sued and posts about it on twitter.

Re: FrootVPN – Surf anonymously on the Internet

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Within less than an hour of being connected to FrootVPN through OpenVPN, incoming connection to sshd from sketchy IP followed by multiple attemped incoming connections to screensharing from another sketchy IP... bots, or not, I dont know...

But if every single comment thus far isn't enough of an indication.. as I have never experienced these security issues in the past, I think it's fair to say.. stay away, stay far away...

Re: FrootVPN – Surf anonymously on the Internet

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post #16
post #2

1. We offer a free service. 2. With free support. 3. And we somehow have enough ips to go around for everyone? 4. Btw, we are not MITMing you or logging anything. What?

You don't need enough IPs to go around; you can always assign a private IP address and do NAT (this is how most VPNs work anyway). But yeah, I don't understand how they're paying for it. My best guess would be they found a loophole to exploit peering agreements, similar to how small rural telephone companies will set up free conference bridges because the big telcos have to pay them connection fees. Or they're just c…

Oh sure, sorry I meant to imply that effectively those external ips they will be exposing to outside services will be banned fairly soon by a lot of things and marked as a vpn/proxy service.

On second reading I realize that I basically in no way say that.

Agreed with everything you said though, it's not legit.

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