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What's the go-to VPN provider today (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by ryan_harg@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I used Mullvad for a long time, but hearing about one of the two CEOs actively supporting and financing swedish Nazis, I'm looking to put my money elsewhere. That's the second one after Private Internet Access (who supported Gab).

I had AirVPN and Surfshark being recomnended, how do people here feel? What do you use?

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[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

https://thecybersecguru.com/online-privacy/vpn-controversies-trust-failures/

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

NordVPN is interesting because it was less about them handing over data to the government, and them just not being transparent about an attack. All the others in that post clearly were in cahoots with big gov.

NordVPN’s defense was technically coherent: because the company doesn’t store activity logs, no user browsing data was exposed. The breach was framed as a vendor problem. The attacker had gotten in through an insecure remote management system that the data center had left open. NordVPN said it hadn’t even known the system existed.

That may all be accurate. But the eighteen months of silence is the actual story.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I was expecting it to be much worse to be honest. Obviously they should have said something right away and hopefully they've learned their lesson. Not sure I'd write them off for this one incident from 7-8 years ago but it's probably still good to have that asterisks on their name.