On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 14:05:04 -0700 Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
On 08/02/2018 01:46 PM, juan wrote:
You never know ;)
So have y'all heard any more about the cat fight between PIA-cofounder rasengan and ProtonVPN? The protonmail account on HN basically claimed that PIA cooperates with the Chinese government.[0] And that this accounts for the fact that the GFW wasn't blocking PIA as thoroughly as other VPN services.
And that presumably triggered rasengan's attack on ProtonVPN and NordVPN.[0,1] He's criticized both for failing to disclose connections to Tesonet. And he's characterized Tesonet as a data-mining service, riffing on their competitive-intelligence pitch.
Tesonet is apparently an enterprise VPN service, in Vilnius, which focuses on B2B competitive intelligence. So maybe the allegations regarding ProtonVPN and NordVPN are misleading. I mean, Tesonet is serving data miners, but is arguably not data-mining its own customers. And any VPN service could data-mine its customers ;)
But it is quite the cat fight :)
And really, it'd be amusing if PIA actually were China-centric. That'd arguably make them _more_ secure for those concerned about the NSA.
Oh interesting. Thanks for the info. I wonder about falkvinge and PIA. My thoughts on the subject aren't too clear, but it's something along the lines of : falkvinge and and a vpn associated with him seem to be high profile/a high value target so they must have been attacked? Compromised?
0) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17254113 1) https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/anyone-using-protonmail.394862/page-... (near the end)