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Very interesting read, if true. https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-23-companies/

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that AirVPN has begun to actively contribute to OpenVPN 3 development. Our first goal has been adding support for ChaCha20 cipher with Poly1305 as authenticator on OpenVPN 3 Data Channel. ChaCha20 is a stream cipher developed by Daniel J. Bernstein which combines strength and remarkable performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa20#ChaCha20_adoption When compared with AES-GCM, ChaCha20 offers significant computational relief to all AES-NI non supporting processors, such as ARM processors. ARM processors, routinely used on very many tablets, smart phones, media centers, smart TVs and routers, will get great benefits from OpenVPN with ChaCha20. Our tests show that CPU load caused by ChaCha20 on recent ARM 64 bit processors is at least 50% less than AES-256-GCM, on equal terms, which translates into dramatic performance boost and longer battery life (if you have ever tested Wireguard on an ARM based device you know what we mean). OpenVPN 3 is a client library. However, OpenVPN 2.5, which is currently in beta testing and includes all the necessary servers features, supports ChaCha20 on the Data Channel. Therefore, making OpenVPN 3 with ChaCha20 available to our users and allowing a real life test will be a matter of days. We will progressively release beta clients for Android, Linux, OpenBSD and FreeBSD, in this order. We are considering a porting to OpenIndiana as well. Internal alpha testing has concluded successfully. We have already pulled a merge request to OpenVPN 3 main branch, to let the whole community take advantages from our code, and let OpenVPN developers merge the new code into the main branch if they wish so. https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3/pull/78 Implementation has been designed, developed and programmed for AirVPN by ProMIND, who is also Eddie Android edition developer. Stay tuned, more will come! UPDATE: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/44069-openvpn-3-development-by-airvpn/ The above linked topic is now the central thread to discuss anything related to OpenVPN 3 development and testing. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! We proudly announce that today AirVPN has become an Electronic Frontier Foundation "Super Major Donor". The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows. https://www.eff.org Check our mission page: https://airvpn.org/mission Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! Today we're starting AirVPN ninth birthday celebrations! From a two servers service located in a single country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 22 countries in three continents, providing now 230,000+ Mbit/s to tens of thousands of people around the world. Software related development has also been powered up. Eddie Android edition is now a fully mature application which features an exclusive best effort method to prevent traffic leaks and a complete integration with AirVPN. In 2019 AirVPN has also started operating in South America, on top of Asia, Europe and North America, and the infrastructure has grown significantly, counting now on more than 260 bare metal servers, whose traffic is mainly powered by tier1 and tier2 transit providers. AirVPN has also become recently an EFF "Super Major Donor" member. Furthermore, and we're very glad to announce it here publicly for the first time, development for OpenBSD and FreeBSD has started. We are also integrating OpenVPN 3 on new software which will couple Eddie on UNIX-like systems, including Linux, during the second half of 2019. GDPR compliance was already a de facto standard for AirVPN way before the Regulation entered into force, mainly because we don't collect personal data, period. By the way the compliance is now fully formalized (check details in our Privacy Notice and Terms https://airvpn.org/privacy ). AirVPN provides probably the strongest protection to your data, not only personal data but all data, you can find on any service. If you are an AirVPN customer or user, you are probably aware that our service is radically different than any other VPN service you might have met anywhere. No whistles and bells, no marketing fluff, no fake locations, no advertising on mainstream media, a transparent privacy policy, no trackers on the web site or in mobile applications, no bullshit of any kind in our infrastructure to sell your personal data to any personal data merchant, and above all a clear mission which is the very reason which AirVPN operates for. https://airvpn.org/mission Many of you know that when you buy AirVPN service, you not only support yourself and improve your ability to exercise your fundamental rights, but you also support AirVPN mission. However, while AirVPN in itself has flourished, AirVPN mission aims and values related to fundamental rights have experienced, in 2018 and 2019, a grim time. Australia "encryption-busting" monstrous law is fully in force; the European Union has definitively approved the bad Copyright Directive, mandating automated filters, which will unavoidably limit freedom of expression on big boards, and making the first step to undermine the liability exemptions of mere conduits and web publishers alike; new threats to citizens' privacy are becoming real through plans of wide face recognition deployment, indiscriminate DNA databases proposals, more pervasive and efficient profiling (possibly even through AI), and strict cooperation between Internet tech giants and intelligence agencies; the persecution of journalists, publishers and whistleblowers all around the world has reached unprecedented levels, revealing a widespread plan to suppress freedom of the press and freedom of expression even in so called "Western democracies". One of the greatest journalists and publishers of all times, Julian Assange, nominated seven times for the Nobel Peace prize and winner of many journalistic prizes and awards, has been and is prosecuted and persecuted for having merely published the truth about war crimes, corruption, torture and more, with a 100% accuracy, and for having protected his sources as any good investigative journalist does. He has been detained arbitrarily and illegally, as widely ascertained and recognized by the UN. He has been victim of an abominable smear campaign based on ignominious lies and defamation, a campaign aimed to turn the public opinion against him and distract from WikiLeaks publications content exposing war criminals in governments key positions, warmongers, torture maniacs, systematic illegal surveillance, endemic privacy violations and plots to limit and reduce fundamental rights. He is currently detained in solitary confinement 23 hours a day, with no access to books, maximum two visits per month, forbidden in practice to coordinate a defense with his lawyers, in a tiny cell of a maximum security UK prison which has been designed for dangerous murderers and terrorists, while UK will decide whether to extradite him to the USA to face a potential 175 years imprisonment. Whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning, who should be regarded as a hero, as Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Daniel Ellsberg and other titans of our times pointed out, have been tortured and are still persecuted by the very same criminals whose crimes were exposed. Privacy activists and software developers, like Ola Bini in Ecuador, are imprisoned without charges, simply for having showed friendship to Assange or WikiLeaks, or for having developed software aimed to protect privacy through encryption. And the list can go on and on and on. But make no mistake: the dark times we are living in, the environment of fear and intimidation that various governments are building against the exercise of those fundamental rights which our mission forces us to protect to the best of our abilities, the mounting attacks against "encryption for everyone" and the awareness that enemies of human rights nestle inside government agencies, have not undermined our determination. Quite the opposite: they have convinced us that our service is even more necessary now and we are resolute to do even more. Our mission has been and will be empowered by the ongoing support to projects and NGOs which aim to the protection of privacy, personal data and freedom of expression, now more than ever. We have confirmed our support to Tor and we will progressively add support to champions of freedom of expression and privacy in any way our capacities and abilities will allow us. If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus To worthily celebrate AirVPN ninth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 20% discount on all long term plans. Hurry up, this special offer will end on June the 11th, 23:59:59 UTC! Check the new prices here. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

Is there an easy way to install air vpn on nvidia shield as I'm struggling with it can anyone advise me please i would be grateful to you Thanks P

Welcome to the digital banana republic

I will refrain from comment on the pathetic politics and sinister backroom power agendas peculiar to Australia. Of greater relevance for Air and all Internet users, especially in the "5 eyes", is this: "Five Eyes governments get even tougher on encryption" https://www.zdnet.com/article/five-eyes-governments-get-even-tougher-on-encryption/ Also more general analysis: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/australia-passes-new-law-to-thwart-strong-encryption

At least this is not a threat to non-AU companies. You have to understand however where does it come from. US has the NSA. UK has the GCHQ. AU has...Telstra I wrote a post nearly 4 years ago about the sadly unfortunate internet "condition" in AU: https://airvpn.org/topic/14538-aussie-and-nz-server-request/?p=28991 Which Dailymail rewrote in even better terms in 2016 (not my original post but same idea): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3748287/Security-company-claims-Australian-bandwidth-costs-17-times-Europe-thanks-Telstra-Optus.html Maybe finally the peering and bandwidth costs in AU will be cheaper, or at least reasonable. This is a "known issue" on the Asian peering market that peering with NZ, which transits via AU, is cheaper, although it physically goes via longer distance via AU. Something we don't need in 2019. There should be no changes to any company not operating in AU however.

I like it, but why say it saves up to 67,5%. I don't get it. My trust in Air has just gone down by a little bit. Still 1117 days left though, thanks.

@Staff will we ever get VPN through Tor to work properly with the network lock somehow? It's an awesome feature, but it fails when using bridges and you have to expose yourself to potential traffic leaks when you disable the network lock to use it.

there is problems again in Mekbuda server

I don't see the issue. The preferences window is resizable. It's correct, the new second set of port/protocol is specific to tls-crypt. This is a known bug. This occurs because you have IPv6 disabled at OS or network-adapter level. Please re-enable, or wait for the next release that manages this situation better. ok, thanks for answering edit: i've got the 2.14.0 version running now, thanks for the OS level thing. the only problem i still have, is the eddie/program exit thing :/

rc4 is out:https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/31/qubes-40-rc4/ ​Hope that its more user friendly.I think isolation enhance your privacy.

Delete.

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I'd say make it a setting in Preferences. Sent via Tapatalk.

Hello! Vulnerability affecting Eddie for Windows installing packages downloaded earlier than Tue May 15 12:51:22 UTC 2018 in already compromised systems. Any other package type for Windows and any package type for any Operating System is not and has never been affected. Eddie Windows NSIS installers have three vulnerabilities described in ​NSIS bug 1125. The most serious of these issues (#1) allows running unsolicited code and an escalation of privilege attack using DLL Search Order Hijacking (​CAPEC-471) as Eddie Windows installers are generally executed with Admin privileges. What NSIS/Windows does is actually prefer loading DLLs in the current directory, which in case of the Downloads folder is writable by the user. Thus the vulnerability is trivial to exploit, but only if the attacker has already managed to get a malicious DLL into user's Downloads folder https://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/bugs/1125/ This issue was brought to our attention by Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs on May 14, 2018 and fixed by us Tue May 15 12:51:22 UTC 2018 in any Eddie 2.13.* Windows installer releases and above. Download of older versions has been disabled. Side note: any Eddie version older than 2.13.6 for any system has now been removed from the download list. Such versions are obsolete and the removal complies to security considerations as well as compatibility considerations with the developments of the respective Operating Systems.

great stuff. thank you

Awesome Air! Thanks!

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