Ricnvolved1956

Don't travel out of the country with your smartphone. Get a burner phone that can be used wherever you're going. You can throw it away before boarding the jet to come home, or if you keep it on the return flight, erase all data before the TSA goons demand to see it. If they demand to keep it (whether from frustration, or just because they're overzealous, stupid assholes), so what? It's a burner phone, what have you lost?

take a look to the end of this page :  https://www.bestvpn.com/the-ultimate-privacy-guide/#avoidus
And this one too
https://www.privacytools.io/

Anyway, P.I.A. (as good as it could be ...or not)  is  USA based ,a  good reason to avoid it !

Servers in Finland, Russia & Iceland would be awesome.

With all due respect I think it is a bad choice for an Australian to use any VPN with an exit node in Australia
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​My understanding is that a VPN connection is encrypted between my computer and the exit node (by AirVPN's outstanding strong encryption)
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​After the exit node the connection is outside the VPN tunnel - in this case on the open Internet in Australia
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Australia is a member of the 5 Eyes and the NSA has a full take on the only two cables out of Australia [Perth and Sydney(?)]
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​Thus the NSA has a full take on the low strength encryption transmission which may only be protected by SSL, TLS, etc - which were compromised long ago
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​There is a further problem: late evening Crux had 16 users - not the world's hardest problem to sort out who is who, particularly if you can read their emails
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​I believe that a more robust solution for non time critical applications (torrents, email) is to use an exit node in a less exposed jurisdiction:
 
First: eliminate any 5 or 11 Eyes countries or those known to share data with the "wrong" spooks (Singapore, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, +++)
 
Then, evaluate the remainder - my list is:
- Hong Kong: it's highly likely that the Mainland Chinese government has a full take but they have no interest in me - I believe, without evidence, that they will have removed the American / Australian access provided by, for example, Telstra agreements with PCCW
- Switzerland: robust privacy laws and a cultural affinity with providing privacy for money
​- the Baltic states: a long way from Australian interest and control (below the radar)
​- the Balkans: Czech and Romania are a long way away and resemble the Wild West (and have a surprising number of TOR relays)
- Ukraine: the actual Wild West - where examining transiting emails is likely a VERY low priority - the USA and the Russians have bigger fish to fry there
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​For browsing; use TOR with AirVPN
​Netflix or other geo-blocked content: you must use an exit node in the relevant location
​Streaming content which is not geo-blocked: AirVPN can't provide the consistency for a 320k audio stream, thus use a dedicated computer without a VPN
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Whilst an Australian exit node may have a lower latency, I'm not convinced that it's any faster for content hosted outside Australia (primarily Stasiland [the USA])
 
​In my view using a local exit node defeats the purpose of using a VPN
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Wow. The effing "supreme" court allowed a private legal witch hunt into a private citizens home, with specific instructions to allow them to check private, sent and even deleted e-mails. Forgive my use of vulgarity, but fuck the world.
 
Was the guy in question being a raging dickbag? Probably. He could have laughed at the $1200 estimate and went to the next dentist. But instead he decided to be a jerk and rant and rave online without taking any precautions.
 
If anyone here wants to do something like this, please do not. It can only make idiots rush to ban VPNs on account of the morons who think of a VPN as a way around common sense, accountability, and the law. If you really want to do this, please consider suicide. I would appreciate you removing yourself from the gene pool.
 
(Please note that I do not actually advocate suicide except in extreme situations. And if you can spare a few minutes to mess with a business online, even if they deserve it, then you are not extreme enough to apply to my suicide suggestion. Not even close.)

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Frankly your outbursts are proving exactly my point. 
 
I don't see the justification on wasting more time arguing with you. I'm just feeding the troll
 
I think my work here is done.

I have to say that's false and quite a worrying statement coming from you, the supposed Founder.
The very notion that trust is required, serves as a weak point, as the trust is merely a substitute for actual verifiable assurance. The less explicit "trust" required, the better. There's been plenty of cases where closed-source software has caused problems. Not just with security, but with other things too. Your misuse of the word "paranoid" serves only to undermine legitimate security and privacy concerns. A network analyzer also won't help if the software contains malware which doesn't need network communications. If the client is so simple as you say, then it should also be a simple matter of making it open-source, no? Then the "truly paranoid" will have even more avenues of auditing and trust in the client will increase. So while you could argue the case of closed source software being alright, I think you picked the wrong brand of software to do it on, since it's security-related and open-source is one of the building blocks of a secure system. You claim the "truly paranoid" could simply use a network analyzer tool, but I think that's a bad argument, seeing as the "truly paranoid" would avoid your software altogether, upon finding out it's closed. Thus you're left with users who can't or won't check such things - which seems irresponsible, given not all users will know the significance of closed vs open source software and thus might unknowingly put their security or privacy at risk. Security isn't just 1 product after all - as you said, there's other factors one should be concerned about. Well, the client is one of them. Someone around here made a thread which showed that a client from another VPN provider acted in some very malicious ways too.

Maybe the Hillary fanatics are beginning to realize that the DNC actively working against Sanders in favor of Hillary was a really, really bad move.
 
NAHHHHH! It's much easier to whine about imagined Russian hacking of the election and any other insanely lame ass excuses they can grasp at. They will place the blame ANYWHERE except where it really belongs and when you're in that position, looking in the mirror is a VERY uncomfortable thing to do.
 
Yep, I'm feasting on schadenfreude right now and by god it tastes delicious!
 
(As an aside, it's pretty telling that so many on the left will photoshop a pic of Trump and Putin in a clearly gay suggestive setting, yet are the same ones hyper vigilant against the slightest perception of anti-homosexuality. Well well well.... I guess homophobia from the left is perfectly alright if it's directed against someone you really don't like. Which just proves to me that the politically conservative right wing doesn't have a monopoly on hypocrisy.)

Just because we are not willing to spend hours on end searching through all the data center providers in the world does not mean that we cannot voice which countries we wish to see added. 
 
We are telling AirVPN which countries we want, then they can see if there are data center options available for them.
 
It's not our job to do AirVPN's homework. I would hope that's included somewhere in the subscription costs.

"Hope and change"
 
http://www.trueactivist.com/criminal-in-chief-78-times-president-obama-broke-the-law-during-presidency/

"Hope and change"
 
http://www.trueactivist.com/criminal-in-chief-78-times-president-obama-broke-the-law-during-presidency/

What's the point in that exercise though? Isn't that just like trying to find a US outlet depicting Putin and/or Russia in a positive light as well? Even if either were found, what's the point? We already know that virtually all media, has a propaganda aspect to it. It's just a matter of picking your poison.

Don't put words into my mouth please.
 
1 - The US barely has democracy to begin with.
2 - DT will hardly do a worse job than Hillary or the nearest equivalent. Including Obama. The difference is rather, that he's more obvious in what he does.
3 - I like democracy. But as I said in another comment, it has to be genuine. Which currently, it often isn't. Especially in the US.
4 - Maybe if it did crumble, it can be re-built and people may actually value it then, as well as derive actual value from it. As opposed to now, where democracy has been hijacked by corporations.
 
As per number 2: Under Obama for instance, drone strikes have increased hugely. But what it really amounts to, is closer to some kind of global assasination campaign. After all, they can attack anyone they like. Now imagine if Iran was doing random drone strikes in the US and justified it with that it's simply "hunting down terrorists". How would you feel? Probably none too safe. Well that's what the US has been doing and is continuing to do. Now, I respect you, but I find it quite troubling that you appear to either refuse or be unwilling to understand the other side of events. I get that you're against Trump, as well as Hillary. But it's not enough to just act outraged when your values are stomped on - you also, in my opinion, need to understand things in more ways than one. Which I don't feel that you're doing. I'm not asking for you to be Pro-Russia or Pro-DT at all or even Anti-US or Anti-Democracy and so on. But simply that you display a more nuanced point of view .
 
Of course, I don't control you and don't want to either, so these are my views. I just think that it gets a little repetitive being shocked/outraged at DT and, in a sense, almost exaggerating the damage he'll do. Because I struggle to see how it would be any different, if he weren't elected. Now I'm talking about democracy of course. In terms of climate change, he's the undisputed nightmare I suppose .

Maybe the Hillary fanatics are beginning to realize that the DNC actively working against Sanders in favor of Hillary was a really, really bad move.
 
NAHHHHH! It's much easier to whine about imagined Russian hacking of the election and any other insanely lame ass excuses they can grasp at. They will place the blame ANYWHERE except where it really belongs and when you're in that position, looking in the mirror is a VERY uncomfortable thing to do.
 
Yep, I'm feasting on schadenfreude right now and by god it tastes delicious!
 
(As an aside, it's pretty telling that so many on the left will photoshop a pic of Trump and Putin in a clearly gay suggestive setting, yet are the same ones hyper vigilant against the slightest perception of anti-homosexuality. Well well well.... I guess homophobia from the left is perfectly alright if it's directed against someone you really don't like. Which just proves to me that the politically conservative right wing doesn't have a monopoly on hypocrisy.)

He also dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. It was about the speech, not the actions and it's unfair to talk about what Obama has done vs Trump, as Trump hasn't started doing anything yet. Unless you count the TTIP/TTP kills and some of the manufacturing he (maybe?) already got back. They're both showmen .

Society has these stupid ideas that we are all homophobes unless we dedicate "holidays" to homosexuals. And then we all must approve of them in every aspect of our lives. You damned well know exactly what I meant. And if you truly do not, then count yourself blessed.
 
It is politically incorrect to say anything bad, even if true about anyone who is any gender preference other than heterosexual, just like saying anything bad about anyone who is not white.
 
I am not racist, nor sexist, nor a homophobe. But I am heterosexual. I see no need to acknowledge any gender preference that does not apply to me. And if that is politically incorrect, so be it.
 
And just because it clearly irritates you in particular to actually think a bit. What political party started this mess? Did republicans celebrate "gay pride" stuff? I think not. They had the good sense to leave it to the side and focus on things that actually matter. And that little detail irritates the hell out of the entire democratic party.
 
So before you accuse me of hating homosexuals as the party line requires you, kindly read what I said again. And have a nice day.

I would not use Google if my life depended on it. Duckduckgo and Ixquick are the two search engines I would use.
 
I can just about guarantee that many users cannot use any search engine to setup some addons/extensions. A good example is Form History Control. It is unsigned, and as such requires a user to go to about:config and set "xpinstall.signatures.required" to false. Sadly many users do not even understand simple steps like this. And it does not matter if a search engine explains it in detail. They will continue to misunderstand it until someone makes the effort to explain it specifically for them.

Expecting decency from a big company is every bit as lucrative as mining for gold in a toilet. And there is likely far less excrement in the toilet too.
 
Nvidia probably thinks this is not invasive. I would not complain if they has a process list and checked the number of FPS and general details of the GPU as it rendered for the games on the list. But they seem to have aimed for every process, and quite a few details beyond general rendering.
 
Perhaps they came up with this idea intending to help optimize their products. But how long until one of the many alphabet soup organizations starts demanding that data to "fight terrorism" or whatever the excuse of the day is?

Hello!
 
Thank you for sharing. Although I struggle to imagine how anyone could be surprised, given who's involved

I am a former costumer of VyprVPN...Long stoty short - they collect and store users data such as: Date and time you signed on. Your IP address , method of payment. I f you try to create an account while connected to another VPN or proxy - they will detect the fact and disable your account! They ask for " verification" like your papal, CC number.
I got a feeling it's a data collection operation more than anything. Their servers are all in the US under US laws.
Danger! Stay away!

zhang nailed it.

didn't even read this, but knew anyways that's how they handle stuff
after a few years of observing things and seeing a lot things happening - you start raising your awareness for such things...

It's common sense & normal human thinking ;D

Strong suggestion that they log activity. Otherwise it would be impossible for them to enforce these statements.
 
 
Gold.

there is no proof of things that CIA and NSA does - that's why they're called "secret agencies"