TunnelBear Joins McAfee • Hacker News Board

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#101

Post by tptacek » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 4:37 AM UTC

pvg wrote: post #100

tptacek wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. WireGuard, right now, is mostly useful to people who can run Linux (or people who want site-to-site VPNs). There's a cross-platform userland client in progress; a couple different organizations (us included) have kicked in to fund it.

Yeah I've heard that but the Wireguard site never seems to say much about it. Is this happening somewhere outside the Wireguard repo/main project?

No, I think it's more that Jason is a serious engineer and researcher and not as serious a marketer. It'll get better over time.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#102

Post by pvg » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 5:09 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #101

pvg wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I've heard that but the Wireguard site never seems to say much about it. Is this happening somewhere outside the Wireguard repo/main project?

No, I think it's more that Jason is a serious engineer and researcher and not as serious a marketer. It'll get better over time.

Hmm, not really important but I looked at it again and I don't think whatever is happening on the userspace client front is going on in their server repo.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#103

Post by jlgaddis » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 5:16 AM UTC

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #62

I can't wait for the mcafee themed bear photos! Bears on drugs , bears hiding in Mexico, and bears trying to sell you cryptocurrencies in back alleys.

You do realize he hasn't been involved with the company since the 90s?

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#104

Post by jlgaddis » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 5:19 AM UTC

ksec wrote: post #26

Why does Intel wants TunnelBear? I dont see the logic behind this, any one could explain? P.S Is anyone still using McAfee ? It seems Symantec has taken up most of the enterprise sales, while consumer are happy with Windows default protection.

Coincidentally, the U.S. Government is a pretty big McAfee customer.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#105

Post by sireat » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 7:07 AM UTC

If you can't trust a goofy bear who can you really trust then?

If you think about it all the goodwill Tunnelbear had was built on quirky/irreverent front end client.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#106

Post by crisopolis » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 7:38 AM UTC

ksec wrote: post #26

Why does Intel wants TunnelBear? I dont see the logic behind this, any one could explain? P.S Is anyone still using McAfee ? It seems Symantec has taken up most of the enterprise sales, while consumer are happy with Windows default protection.

The company I work for still uses McAfee. This company has 50,000 employees.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#107

Post by msh » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 2:58 PM UTC

zanedb wrote: post #23

emdowling wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These guys are great: https://encrypt.me I used them when I was freelancing and working on public wifi. Super easy to use and reliable.

Heads-up: Encrypt.me logs your IP address when connecting!

Which they are very upfront about, and if you are only using it to connect over public wifi I don’t see any big issues with it.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#108

Post by dogma1138 » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 4:57 PM UTC

jabberwik wrote: post #85

dogma1138 wrote: post #46

I don’t understand why people used them they didn’t had an explicit no logging no retention policy and they are located well within the reach of the US legal system as they were a Canadian company.

Because my threat model is a Wifi pineapple. I don't need protection from the entire Internet and all the governments of the world. I want to make sure an overzealous college kid isn't stealing my cookies.

And there were much better and cheaper companies for that like NordVPN and VyprVPN.

Neither of them would protect you against governments that much, but they do protect your privacy.

Do you want another place where all your data has been logged? I bet McAfee will have a field day with all the data tunnelbear has accumulated over the years.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#109

Post by BlackPlot » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 3:00 PM UTC

IMHO all users should consider switching to some reputable VPN with no logs policy https://vpnspecial.com/tunnelbear-has-just-been-purchased-be...

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#110

Post by BlackPlot » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 3:03 PM UTC

sparrc wrote: post #30

Arubis wrote: post #13

Nice while it lasted. Any alternative recommendations for less tech-oriented folks? TunnelBear has been what I pointed friends and relations towards historically.

I've found NordVPN very good and easy to use: https://nordvpn.com/

Agree and price with 3 year deal is unbeatable https://nordvpn.com/special/specialdeal