PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy

Re:PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by form... by NickHoff on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:19AM (#21680242)

Me too. I cancelled my subscription about a week ago when I first heard of it (and I explained why on their cancellation form).

I'm looking at Mullvad and NordVPN. I know Nord had a MITM attack on a Finnish datacenter a few months ago and didn't immediately notify affected users. I'm having trouble understanding what it says about Nord's culture and likely behavior in the future. On a technical level, it's pretty bad when users of a VPN like this can be MITM'd. Blaming the datacenter's remote admin tools doesn't help me as a user because the same thing could happen again. I know they have a bug bounty program and audits now, but still I'm concerned that they didn't notify people which might indicate a cultural problem.

How would Nord handle a problem like this in the future, and can we still trust them?

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Re:PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by form... by ac29 on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:32AM (#21680299)

You may want to read the comments and article linked here before thinking about NordVPN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692

They are seemingly sketchily using "residential proxies" at least for Disney+. These proxies seem to be coming from their customers, or customers of a company NordVPN is closely tied to - likely without their knowledge.

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Re:PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by form... by richardARPANET on Monday December 02, 2019 @04:17AM (#21680989)

Using NordVPN is never a smart idea. Same goes for using a VPN linked to a US company, unfortunately. Use Mullvad or https://www.ipredator.se/

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Re:PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by form... by ssklash on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:28AM (#21680801)

I use Mullvad and have had nothing but positive experiences.

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Re:PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by form... by mirimir on Monday December 02, 2019 @01:29AM (#21680290)

NordVPN apparently using residential proxies is pretty iffy.

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Re:PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by form... by badrabbit on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:19AM (#21680759)

Makes blocking harder,cloud/hosting IP can't access some content.

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Re:PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by form... by mirimir on Monday December 02, 2019 @03:44AM (#21680864)

I know that it makes blocking harder.

It's just that one wonders whether the people whose devices are being used as proxies are aware of the situation.

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Re:PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by form... by SahAssar on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:12PM (#21687617)

I would never use NordVPN simply based on FUD-based advertising. The breach is just the cherry on top.

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Re:PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by form... by jayalpha on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:02AM (#21680439)

Astrill. Not the cheapest but I am very happy with it. Also to circumvent GFC

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