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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by nucatus on Monday June 19, 2023 @02:17AM (#36387860)
I use ProtonVPN and I guess they aren't that stupid to mess up the future of their company by abusing the customers of the service that started the company in the first place. I guess other VPN services offered by prestigious companies, like BitDefender are quite safe from this standpoint. Yes, the free VPN services have always a large risk associated with.
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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by RektBoy on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:05AM (#36388146)
Proton is operated by US agencies, CIA did that in the past with cypher machines.
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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by iakov on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:33AM (#36388315)
This is a very bold claim. Do you have reliable sources to back it?
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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by cookiengineer on Monday June 19, 2023 @05:36AM (#36389081)
He's probably talking about Crypto AG [1]

Not sure about the links to Proton though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by bartbutler on Monday June 19, 2023 @05:56AM (#36389207)
There aren't any links between Proton and Crypto AG, none at all.
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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by The_SamminAter on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:33AM (#36388316)
Do you have any sources/links?
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Re:Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet by nerdbert on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:31AM (#36390890)
It's not necessarily a problem to use a service, (Signal?), which is funded by an intelligence agency. It can serve their purposes while serving yours too. If the service gets wide enough adoption, then the huge volume of traffic becomes a perfect place to hide their own intelligence activity.
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