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 fortzi on Monday December 02, 2019 @12:29PM (#21684529)

To me the word spy and the term ex-intel paint a very different picture of the person being described. When I realized this guy was just in the 8200 unit I literally giggled at the notion that all those 18 year old nerds are all spooky spies.

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Re:PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by form... by kuschku on Monday December 02, 2019 @12:49PM (#21684760)

Do you believe people would continue using a VPN if they knew several of its employees were ex-NSA? No, not at all.

The same applies here, it doesn't matter if you call the people spy or not, VPNs should not have any association with intelligence services.

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Re:PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by form... by pron on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @07:11AM (#21691689)

Thing is, Akamai and Cisco employ a lot of those people. Quite many of them in security research. People who were in the NSA or Israeli intelligence are the people companies seek when they want security. Israel's military intelligence is one of the places where VPNs were first used, and the idea later became commercial VPN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_Point#History

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