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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by wswope on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:39PM (#36383635)
Why don't you try installing Nord in a VM and monitoring traffic yourself, instead of taking low-quality blogspam Medium articles at face value?

If they're truly hijacking end user clients, why don't you point to the section of their open source client that's responsible for that?

https://github.com/NordSecurity/nordvpn-linux

Easy enough to prove.

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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by internetter on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:42PM (#36383667)
I didn't even read the medium article, only the first one. That's what I quoted from. I agree, investigating traffic would be an excellent idea, but I don't intend on putting my credit card into nord's sketchy site (they apparently don't accept paypal)
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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by KomoD on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:43PM (#36383680)
They do accept paypal, I just checked their site.

Credit or debit card, Klarna, PayPal, Google Pay, Cryptocurrencies

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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by internetter on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:45PM (#36383711)
Where? I'm presented with "Credit or debit" (direct input), AmazonPay, ACH Transfer, and Crypto https://imgur.com/G4j1DB8
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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by KomoD on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:46PM (#36383735)
Maybe possible it differs by country then:

https://i.imgur.com/fTtdOfR.png

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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by KomoD on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:42PM (#36383664)
Exactly, I'd love to see some proper proof other than "the parent company owns a residential proxy service"
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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by internetter on Sunday June 18, 2023 @03:43PM (#36383679)
Honestly, "the parent company owns a residential proxy service" is more than enough to deter me from the product.
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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by fomine3 on Sunday June 18, 2023 @08:31PM (#36385951)
If I were evil, I don't implement proxy feature on open Linux VPN client that geeks use, but just implement on closed Windows/Android client. Traffic monitoring is better.
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