[kwlug-disc] Best vpn

[Doug Moen]

If I want to do some web browsing with increased privacy, I use TOR. This saves me the trouble of deciding which VPN provider to trust (I have no real objective basis for trusting one over another).

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, at 1:59 PM, Chris Craig wrote:
> 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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