Comment on WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship

Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• bishoponarope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Owned by an Israeli billionaire, with all the implications that come with that.

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• fne8w2ah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t touch PIA even with a 10 foot long pole after all their past controversies.

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  • Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not opposed to ditching them but could you provide me an article or source for these controversies?

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    • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      cyberinsider.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvp…

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• paultimate14@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  • owned by Israeli billionaire
  • based in the UK, subject to UK laws
  • chief tech officer was previously the CEO of a Bitcoin exchange company and was convicted of fraud for stealing from it

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• lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think you mean Kape or whatever advertiser bought them

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• quips@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Which you shouldn’t continue to do.

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• crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  cyberinsider.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvp…

  I bought a year of PIA before I found this out, after Mullvad dropped port forwarding. I guess I’ll switch to Proton?

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  • Zubgub@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    AirVPN still has port forwarding last i checked.

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