Mozilla VPN

Post by j1elo » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 11:02 AM UTC

Hawxy wrote: post #337

j1elo wrote: post #214

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I was just about to change to something different from LastPass, pretty much convinced about Bitwarden from previous HN mentions, until you mentioned Lockwise :-) care to share some pros and cons or comparison between these two?

I personally use 1Password due to it being better polished than Bitwarden and the support being excellent. I'm using it with Windows/Edge and haven't encountered any problems.

Post by cyphar » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 11:19 AM UTC

nerdbaggy wrote: post #343

cyphar wrote: post #341

It's disheartening that Mozilla is continuing to actively avoid partnering with the Tor project for problems like this, despite the fact that the Tor project has contributed to Firefox for many years (mostly related to fingerprint resistance). I get that Mozilla needs to make money, but the fact that they still haven't made "private browsing mode" actually private by making it use Tor is a real shame.

The amount of exit nodes would be insane. And I don’t think Mozilla would want the liability of running them.

Post by Dahoon » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 12:32 PM UTC

wongarsu wrote: post #160

closeparen wrote: post #140

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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.

Unless I set up my own VPN I'll share a VPN server and IP with other people. That makes my traffic inherently more anonymous once it has left the VPN server, since you can't correlate traffic to a single person anymore. So even if traffic in the data center is analyzed, that's better than my ISP analyzing traffic. Thus we only have to establish that the VPN provider is at least as trustworthy as my ISP. That's a pret…

Post by kd913 » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 12:49 PM UTC

Jonnax wrote: post #380

kd913 wrote: post #83

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Not just track you, some ISPs will simply redirect all UDP port 53 DNS packets to their own DNS anyway.

Which ISP? People arguing against DNS over HTTPS claim stuff the doesn't happen so it'd be good to have definite examples.

Post by Dahoon » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 12:59 PM UTC

ryantgtg wrote: post #224

surround wrote: post #66

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That’s what I said. VPNs are good for “location spoofing,” i.e. changing your web-facing IP address to a different region. VPNs are great for this purpose. The issue is, VPN companies (Mozilla included) are marketing their service as one that improves your safety when it doesn’t.

The value of location spoofing is to access geographically-restricted content (like a netflix show that is available through their service in Europe but not the US), not to avoid DMCA notices. VPNs are valuable for avoiding DMCA because it hides from your ISP (the entity serving you the notice) what you are torrenting.