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I'm not sure what do you mean by saying "no phone support"? Fastmail has apps for Android and iOS. I use iOS one and it's quite alright. Did I not understand you statement correctly? Like did you mean that you cannot set it up with other mail apps on the phone?
Customer support via phone call.
Of course there's also the shady side of VPN use. If you're doing that it might be beneficial to use the VPN within a VM with strict firewall rules, i.e. only allow incoming/outgoing to/from the VPN. Doing so allows you to only send the traffic you want to over the VPN, thus reducing your exposure to any nefarious data collection that the provider might be doing.
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Only Mozilla can make me pay for Google services like Email/Calendar etc. I think I subconsciously trust the brand more than most internet companies out there.
How about FastMail? They have a stellar email service. They also offer contacts and calendars, though I don't personally use those (I use iCloud for that).
Every time someone mentions a VPN provider in my techie social circles, the "A VPN doesn't protect you" crowd piles in, usually with links to something like: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 I don't understand this argument, but would like to. I run https://everytwoyears.org , a political non-profit focused on ending the warrantless metadata collection of U.S. citizens' communications. From every…
A VPN is just a tunnel from one point to another. You'd have to establish why the remote end is more trustworthy than the local end. Being located in a hostile jurisdiction may be somewhat protective, but it would also seem likely that compromising foreign VPN services is within the NSA's wheelhouse.
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Only Mozilla can make me pay for Google services like Email/Calendar etc. I think I subconsciously trust the brand more than most internet companies out there.
How about FastMail? They have a stellar email service. They also offer contacts and calendars, though I don't personally use those (I use iCloud for that).
Come on Mozilla, hurry up! I want to give you money for goods and services (I also donate monthly [1]), but I'm not that interested in a VPN (I can and do also pay Mullvad). Give me that real internet stuff - email, calendar, file sync, chat(?) - give me Firefox Premium. Bundle in the Lockwise password manager. I'd pay good money to see a company fill the void of paid, privacy first essential internet services and I…
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Tumbling coins has nothing to do with money laundering, it's just a way to anonymize them....
Tumbling coins has everything to do with money laundering. Of course, the source of the funds isn’t necessarily illicit.
Tumbling coins is just obscuring their origin.
The two don't inherently have anything to do with each other.
Even if you tumble "dirty" coins, you've got to explain to the IRS the source of income behind the new coins. Tumbling, in and of itself, doesn't achieve that.
As a security person, I am somewhat baffled by the popularity of VPNs. I have no idea why anyone would use them for general internet usage, and I suspect the majority of VPN service users are misinformed about what they think they are gaining. Any VPN subscribers want to fill me in? The only thing I can think of is hiding the source of pirated media being shared via bittorrent.
A lot of countries block access to websites. US and EU are not the whole world! VPN helps people to circumvent censorship. I use a VPN daily because without it, there is no Twitter/HackerNews/Reddit/Youtube/... .
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> I use Mullvad, paid using BTC that came straight from a tumbler. I don't use it for any nefarious reasons, just wanted to see how such a setup would work. > But again, I didn't do it to stay "safe" or anonymous. I sincerely hope that you're trying to stay safe if you're admitting to money laundering on a public forum.
Like cyberpunk said. It's not money laundering, it's a way of anonymising the bitcoins.
As a security person, I am somewhat baffled by the popularity of VPNs. I have no idea why anyone would use them for general internet usage, and I suspect the majority of VPN service users are misinformed about what they think they are gaining. Any VPN subscribers want to fill me in? The only thing I can think of is hiding the source of pirated media being shared via bittorrent.
1) You live in an authoritarian country where mass surveillance is a concern.
2) Evading geo restrictions. Watching US Netlix while in Europe, etc.
3) Evading your work's firewall so they don't know you're on Facebook or whatever.
4) Piracy