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OmniNegro-- I hope you're right. But don't underestimate NSA/CIA/FBI and all the other alphabet soup assclowns of at least TRYING to bring the hammer down on the most secure (and defiant) VPN and email services, regardless of location. I know the subject in this thread is about internet service providers, and the same goes for them. The government turds will start with extreme pressure on the domestic players, and if that doesn't work out, then they'll begin surreptitiously pressuring governments of countries where those VPN/email services reside. I'm not making a 100 percent prediction, but don't rule out the probability. A few years ago there was a Dutch computer/tech geek (I don't remember his name) who was a guest on The Keiser Report. He said something extremely interesting. According to this man, if every private individual who goes online would just use a good, reputable VPN, it would make it so expensive for the NSA to try to break through on ALL of them there would be no damn way they could afford it. (If THAT happened, the NSA would go HARD after a few rabbits to make an example of them as a clear warning to everyone else. And I'll tell ya this-- That kind of intimidation doesn't work on me. All it would do is make me just that much more defiant.) Here is my personal rule about going online which I humbly recommend to everyone concerned about privacy and security (and I'm sure this point has been brought up elsewhere on the forum): Never, ever use either a VPN or email service based in Amerika. All you have to do is look at what happened to Lavabit. However.... just because a VPN or email service is based in Europe or elsewhere doesn't automaticallly make it a good choice. DO YOUR RESEARCH! I think it's safe to say all of us here are in agreement that Air is the best choice for a VPN. I also think there are several good choices for private and secure email: Protonmail; Tutanota; Posteo; Runbox, to name just a few. (Others here are welcome to add a favorite.)

Hyperionlord-- I was almost in disbelief when I began reading your post. Then I got to the last sentence. LOL I'm a connoisseur of understated sarcasm. Good onya! ; )

1984 indeed, LZ1. There's a reason why I have a quotation attributed to George Orwell in my signature. I visited England for 10 days during the Christmas holidays in 1992. Terrible food but good people. Gorgeous scenery and overwhelming history. But now it's come to this. I remember reading somewhere online a couple of years ago that in England, if you have an email account that you can only unlock with an electronic encryption key.... and the government decides it wants to read your emails... if you don't turn over the encryption key, it's AUTOMATIC you'll spend 2 years in prison. The British government can SUCK IT!!

NaDre-- Thank you very, very much for that information. I like the idea of downloading and storing my Bitcoin on a specialized hardware device (USB stick?) instead of a software wallet. I've still got a lot to learn about this whole subject but your recommendations look promising. Thank you again.

What Russian invasion and occupation are you referring to? I've heard this bleating on Clinton News Network and other western propaganda outlets. If you repeat something loud enough and long enough some people will eventually accept it as truth. ("A lie is as good as the truth when everyone believes." I have that as part of my signature precisely for people such as you.) You said somewhere that the previous Ukrainian president was a Russian puppet. I certainly won't dispute that he was sympathetic to Russia. He was corrupt as hell, most certainly. But also know that he was just one a very long line of thoroughly corrupt Ukrainian potiticians. You prattle on about how the Ukrainian population decided they finallly had enough and rose up, and Yanukovich fled to Russia. What you decline to mention (or conveniently leave out) is that the uprising was internal and totally spontaneous. It wasn't. It was a not-so-subtle instigation by State Dept puppets. It is a FACT there were elections already scheduled for September and there was no question Yanukovich would've been thrown out. But the State Dept wasn't about to let a democratic election delay and possible ruin the regime they'd already foreordained. And here's what I don't understand: If Yanukovich was that solidly in the pocket of the Kremlin, why didn't Moscow use their military muscle to make sure he stayed in power? Your so-called 'logic' is full of holes, to put it mildly. FACT: You and all the other Clinton cry babies can lie to yourself until Putin annexes us, but a vote for Jill Stein was not a waste of time and a vote for Trump. Only a vote for Trump is a vote for Trump. Comprehende vous? I choose to look at it in the reverse-- all those votes for Clinton were a waste of time and a vote for Trump. When the first Bush moron was in the White House, after the collapse of the Soviet empire, there was an explicit promise that NATO would not expand any further than where it was established at that time. Within a few years that promise was broken and when the Russian government discreetly asked why NATO was progressively creeping closer to the Russian border, they were curtly and rudely told it was none of their business. I have not yet checked out the links in your post, but I will be fair and do that and give my take in another post.

Ah, North Carolina, redneck country...splains a lot Putin won't have to become a U.S. citizen, with Trump's help he can simply annex America like he did the Crimea. Then you'll get your wish, tovarisch. But your friends n neighbors will have to give up intra-familial breeding; the Russian Church frowns on that. Well, well, well Kepler... Your know-it-all neo-liberal arrogance is showing. Not surprsing. I said earlier that I voted for Jill Stein and despise Clinton and Trump equally. Have I somehow not made that clear enough? My suspicion is you've chosen to ignore it because it's inconvenient to your personal demogoguery. Anywhoooooozle..... Why would Putin want to annex a bunch of mouthbreathing Trump people and self-important, head-up-their-shving-shving Clintonistas? He has enough to worry about what with NATO (an anachronism) building up all around Russia's border. And as a FACTUAL correction to the widely held myth here in the west, Crimea was NOT annexed. The overwhelming majority of Crimean citizens democratically voted to align with the Russian Federation. Another inconvenient truth the brainwashed west will never accept. Your stubborn insistence that it was a forced annexation is just an out and out lie. But if it gives you shallow psychological and emotional comfort to believe it anyway, I can't stop you. I'm convinced by now that the continuing hysteria about Russia and Putin has become the number 1 masturbation fantasy of neo-liberal democrats. Yep, lotta rednecks here in the Tar Heel state; no getting around that. And there are a hell of a lot more rednecks in........ tell us all again how many other red states went for Trump? (Maybe you live in one of them!!!) I'm sure North Carolina doesn't have a monopoly on inbreeding; I bet there's been plenty of it gone on right there in your own backyard. Perhaps you wish to delude yourself further that the Russian Orthodox Church will be any more tolerant of it where you're at? You obviously don't have the self awareness to see that your pathetic lack of real news and information is the basis of the bottomless arrogance and conceit that rules the herd mentality of neo-liberals. I don't expect you to be embarrassed by your cluelessness; you're really not capable of it.

A post-election autopsy. https://www.rt.com/op-edge/366763-trump-clinton-supporters-election-won/

What WOULD I do if you weren't here to keep me apprised on the best oracles to consult? ; ) No doubt SOME "oracles" around here would just whine about surreptitious Russian interference.... Vladimir Putin gonna completely take over Bitcoin and steal everyone's funds. I mean, Vlad the Impaler threw the election to Trump after all, RIGHT?! LOL ~Really cheesy Russian accent~ "In Amerika, you don't buy Bitcoin. Bitcoin buy you." ; )

Thank you very much for those links, I will investigate. Do you recommend I not use the Copay app/Glidera? After my experience last night in trying to get things going, and having had time to think more about it, I've pretty much decided to stay away from Copay/Glidera. To be honest, something just didn't feel right as I was uploading my other information like street address and mobile phone number.

My AirVPN subscription comes up for renewal at the end of this month and I would like to pay with Bitcoin. The problem is that I know next to nothing how to go about it. Last night I downloaded and installed Bitpay and Copay apps from Apple's app store. I uninstalled the Bitpay app after an hour because it kept repeatedly freezing. Copay app seems to be functional. However, I've run into an infuriating problem in trying to upload my photo I.D. I keep getting the same message that I must re-send a photo that's visually clear enough to be accepted as legitimate. I've resent one new photo after another and keep getting the same message. (The photos I've tried to upload after about the third one seem pretty clear and sharp to me.) So here's a question I have-- Does anyone know if Glidera is a trustworthy entity? It APPEARS you have to go through either Glidera or Coinbase before you can buy Bitcoin online. Any and all assistance as to how I can join the Bitcoin community is greatly welcome. (By the way, I live in the U.S.)

Startmail for online purchasing, banking, and similar business related stuff. Opened a new account last week with Protonmail for personal email correspondence with family and friends. Ending a 2 year subscription next month with Countermail. Not because I don't have confidence in their privacy and security, but it's a real PITA to use. Occasionally use Tutanota. I came to the decision over a year ago that it's insane for anyone in the U.S who takes online privacy and security seriously to use ANY service based in the U.S. Unless something changes I plan to use Air as my VPN service from now on. Same thing with Startmail, Protonmail, and Tutanota. (I've seen it mentioned in a few postings on this topic about the price of Startmail. My first year subscription was coming due for renewal later this week and I got an offer for a discount of $12.50 for renewing one week early, which I did. But even aside from the discount, considering you get 10GB of storage, I think Startmail's rate is a pretty good deal. In comparison, you pay $48/1 year for Protonmail's mid-level subscription and 5GB of storage.)

Kepler452_b-- Why don't you just leave if you're so unsettled about the outcome of the election? And I ask this while going out of my way to point out that I don't like it that Trump won. Yes, I do watch RT. Everyday and often. I apologize to no one. If anyone thinks I'm letting myself be brainwashed, go right ahead and think it. I would counter that you're getting brainwashed by watching or reading any Amerikan or western based "news" entities. A friend of mine many years ago had a saying about anyone who had ideological differences with him: "You go to hell your way and I'll go to hell mine." (By the way, in response to LZ1 wondering if I'm a U.S. citizen, I've lived in North Carolina my whole life.)

Thank you, LZ1. Nice to meet you as well. You have some well thought out and written posts yourself.

I wish Vladimir Putin WAS my president! No... seriously. I'm not being sarcastic. Putin has proven he possesses far better leadership and political skills than any Amerikan politician I know of since FDR. I'm not saying he's perfect; no politician ever is. But I will most certainly take him over any political dummy here in the U.S. Of bloody A.

Well, itguy, obviously you live in the Republican bubble. Would you care to provide any evidence of the rigging you claim the Dems did? Or are you just parroting Trump's made-up BS? ITGuy can correct me if I'm wrong but the rigging I think he's talking about is what the DNC was doing behind the scenes to work against Sanders and do what they could to tip the scales in favor of their chosen skank. Kepler452_b, perhaps you chose to cover your eyes and ears to the emails Assange released proving what the Sanders supporters already knew was happening. Maybe I missed it, but I never saw anyone, anywhere, directly address the damning content in those emails. But I sure did see a lot of "chicken-with-its-head-cut-off" panic from the Clinton campaign to throw up a pathetic smoke screen that it was proof of Russian meddling (laughable) in a desperate attempt to divert attention from what was in the emails. And C(linton) N(ews) N(etwork) and MSH(illary)R(odham)C(linton) happily played right along with the sham. Clinton surely paid a sh*tload of money for such obviously bumbling, amateurish campaign strategy and advice, so she must be wondering now if she got anywhere close to her money's worth.

Jerry Garcia had a saying (and I'm paraphrasing here, but it's close to the actual quote): When you make a choice between the lesser of 2 evils, you're still choosing evil.

I voted for Jill Stein. I despise Clinton and Trump equally. My initial preference was for Bernie Sanders, as he was for a lot of other people. But the DNC was hellbent to annoint $hillary no matter what. They sh*t on Sanders, ridiculed and talked down to his supporters ("the dirty f*ckin' hippies"). And after all that, Bernie decided to sell out his principles and his supporters and back you-know-who. The democratic party bureaucrats were so confident in their arrogance that it was impossible for them to entertain the thought for a split second that there would likely be very unpleasant consequences for their contempt. I heard there were some post-election polls showing that Sanders would easily have beaten Trump in the 3 crucial swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. (Another uncomfortable little item they will either aggressively ignore or heatedly deny.) Clinton was a terrible candidate and her political advisors and campaign managers ran an even worse campaign. Clinton screeched more about the ridiculous accusations of Russian interference in the election, and generally just running a campaign of fear. I'm sure most people would rather have heard her talk more about her policy positions and how she planned to help them. I'm convinced that she and the party power structure truly believed there was no way they could lose the election. That's what bottomless arrogance and a self righteous sense of entitlement will get you. Persistent lying about the emails; being in the pocket of Goldman Sachs and every other Wall Street crook you can name; being in the pocket of the military-industrial complex (doesn't anyone find it strange that so many career military and neo-conservatives came out so vocally in support of her?); taking money from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and various low-profile dictators around the world for The Clinton Foundation (which is nothing more than a thinly transparent money laundering lobbying vehicle); one of those leaked emails revealing that she knows for a fact that Saudi Arabia and other corrupt middle eastern states are heavily funding ISIL and other terrorist groups; another leaked email showing that during a State Dept. meeting she wondered aloud if it would be possible to simply drone Julian Assange. Destroying Libya and making it a failed state. An implicit promise to escalate U.S. military involvement in Syria, and anywhere else she damn well felt like it. (Gotta keep the Pentagon and those military defense contractors happy, dontchaknow....) Praising Comey and the FBI for choosing to ignore Clinton's intentional miscreance about using secret, unauthorized email servers..... and then crying like babies when Comey re-opened the same toothless, pro forma investigation with the same recommendation not to bring her lying, lawbreaking @ss to court. And THEN crying about any so-called "news" entity DARING to give even 5 seconds worth of coverage to that second sham investigation. What is so ironic is that those very same "news" entities had been Clinton's unabashed (and totally unprofessional) cheer leaders. Sorry, Clinton and DNC-- you can't have it both ways. That's a short list that democrats and Clinton supporters aggressively stuck their collective head in the sand about. No one will ever convince me she's different enough from Trump to make any real difference. (George Wallace had a famous saying about the 2 major political parties: There ain't a dime's worth of difference between the two.) Regardless, the arrogant and stupid party assclowns have the next 4 years to keep lying to themselves that: it was Russia's fault; it was Vladimir Putin's fault; it was Julian Assange's fault; it was Bernie Sanders's fault; it was his supporters ("the dirty f*ckin' hippies") fault; it was the fault of people like myself... who chose to vote not out of fear against someone, but voted *FOR* someone we truly liked and wanted to win, no matter that candidate's chances of winning.... for choosing to vote conscience and principle instead of party and personality. One thing's for damn sure-- they will never, ever, ever allow themselves to think that the reasons they lost the election lie squarely with whom they see in the mirror. (That's assuming any of them can see their reflection in the mirror since they have no soul.)

Thank you for your helpful advice. I have made the adjustment by going into "about:config" in Firefox and toggling "media.peerconnection.enable" to false. However, I do have a follow up question. Why is it that the Chrome browser on my Sony Xperia Z3+ smart phone doesn't leak? I'm surprised that someone hasn't developed an OpenVPN app that allows for a seamless tunnel for Android, or even a network lock that I use on AirVPN for my iMac desktop. I'm guessing the reason why the different browsers on iPad Mini 3 don't leak is because the OpenVPN app for iOS gives you the option of a seamless tunnel.

I'm having a WebRTC IP leak problem on a Samsung Tab S 10.5. When I go to ipleak.net on the Chrome browser, it leaks. When I go to ipleak.net on Opera browser, it leaks. Even on the TOR onion browser, it leaks. The ONLY browser that doesn't leak is Mozilla Firefox. What can I do to keep the other browsers on the Samsung tablet from leaking? In case it matters..... I don't have this problem at all with whichever browser I'm using on my Sony Xperia Z3+ cell phone. Even on my Apple iPad Mini 3, there is no leaking on any browser. Please keep in mind I'm not very tech savvy. My sincere thanks for all offered advice and guidance.

Greetings-- Technically challenged new customer to AirVPN here. I have a question about network lock. I use AirVPN on a Sony smartphone, Samsung Android tablet, Apple iPad Mini 3, and an Apple iMac desktop. From what I can tell, the network lock feature is available only on the Mac desktop. Does anyone know if network lock can be utilized on my other 3 devices? If so, are there any instructions posted here at the AirVPN website? Thanks very much for any assistance and guidance.