[kwlug-disc] Best vpn

[Chris Craig]

I'm somewhat surprised at the popularity of PIA here. Doing a web search
for "PIA vs NordVPN" brings up some potentially disturbing information...

On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 09:31, Yas Adem <yadem.ethio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks guys. So far PIA seems to the choice. I will take look and see
> their pricing.
>
> Regards
> Yasin
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 9:59 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc, <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>> Oh man. That "publicly accessible database" was Elasticsearch, which
>> has its advantages but can be kind of a tire fire when it comes to
>> security.
>>
>> I hope nobody hacks into our network and discovers our instance, or we
>> could end up in The Register too.
>>
>> - Paul
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 03:08:52PM -0400, Chris Irwin wrote:
>> > Also using PIA here, via their openvpn scripts. Integrates nicely with
>> the
>> > systemd openvpn unit (for a headless machine) and NetworkManager (for my
>> > laptop if I need it)
>> >
>> > I believe they also have wireguard support now as well, though I haven't
>> > looked into that personally.
>> >
>> > There's a white-label VPN provider that recently got "hacked", by which
>> > their logs (that they "do not" keep) were kept in an unsecured, publicly
>> > accessible database. They were marketed under a number of different
>> brands.
>> > You'll probably want to make sure you don't pick one of thsoe, at least.
>> >
>> > https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/17/ufo_vpn_database/
>> >
>>
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