latest NSA offering?

juan juan.g71 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 21:54:47 PDT 2018


On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 14:05:04 -0700
Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:

> On 08/02/2018 01:46 PM, juan wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 	https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-vpn-setup/
> 
> 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-2
> (near the end)
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