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TunnelBear Joins McAfee

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#81

I'll save you the trouble of ctrl+f'ing: "We’d like to thank you for being part of the journey so far, and we look forward to sharing more about our plans in the coming weeks." https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Came here just for this, thanks for doing your part o7

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#82

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> Stop using commercial VPN providers. What would you recommend, BYO?

For BYO, you might consider Algo VPN https://github.com/trailofbits/algo -- it gets IPSec right -- or, if you're feeling more bleeding-edge, WireGuard.

Also looks really good, thanks.

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#83
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This is the opposite of privacy and you should be ashamed. You sold all of your customers’ info to Intel/McAfee at a price.

I don’t believe intel owns mcafee anymore.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/intel-nears-deal-to-sell-m...

They mostly don't. They sold 51% of it to another firm, but still own 49%.

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#84
post #3

RIP marketing department budget at Linus Tech Tips

That was my first thought too, I hope Linus will talk about it at some point. They seem transparent and upfront about their income.

Yeah I'm sure they'll mention this in the upcoming WAN show, they've been pretty upfront about income, the titles and thumbnails, etc

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#85

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.

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#86
post #74

I don't know what all you Tunnelbear users were thinking. Do you believe other commercial VPN services are doing a better job of protecting your privacy? Spoiler: they are not. Commercial VPN services offer the safety of coffee shop open wi-fi, in The Cloud, from the convenience of your own couch. Stop using commercial VPN providers. Honestly, at least now they have the McAfee security team working for them. There ar…

> Stop using commercial VPN providers.

At the very least, don't use the free ones.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#88

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To add insult to injury, they collected tens of thousands of dollars in Q3 and Q4 of 2017 from the National Research Council of Canada: $45,000 : https://nrc-cnrc.explorecatena.com/en/details/LOakjNa8v3uKlv... $20,000 : https://nrc-cnrc.explorecatena.com/en/details/gk2Mb423DZh69n... $20,000 : https://nrc-cnrc.explorecatena.com/en/details/wkBxj3BzKrhwr6...

I don't know why exactly, but that really pisses me off. I'd love to see the Feds go after them for that money, but I doubt Mr. Dress-up or his government would ever do such a thing.

Why should they go after that money? Those look like normal startup grants to stimulate the local economy, and given that the TunnelBear team will keep expanding this seems to have worked just fine.

Sure, you might not like the ethics of their behaviour, but that has nothing to do with those grants.

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#89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Stop using commercial VPN providers. What would you recommend, BYO?

For BYO, you might consider Algo VPN https://github.com/trailofbits/algo -- it gets IPSec right -- or, if you're feeling more bleeding-edge, WireGuard.

I just set this up this week its so easy and works really well. It took less than 10 minutes.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#90

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> Stop using commercial VPN providers. What would you recommend, BYO?

For BYO, you might consider Algo VPN https://github.com/trailofbits/algo -- it gets IPSec right -- or, if you're feeling more bleeding-edge, WireGuard.

+1 Wireguard, much simpler than OpenVPN is my experience.

https://www.wireguard.com/

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