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Certainly an off-topic question. But i have to ask myself how and why did services like AirVPN come to be? Most of the providers i have been able to gather some information on AirVPN included started at or around 2010-2013. Obviously the latter correlates to the Snowden leaks; Clearly however this was a concern before the Snowden leaks but why? For privacy and torrenting reasons, why were VPN providers non-existant from the 1990's to 2010? ( The beginning of the modern web to their first appearance) From 1990-2010 there was obviously government surveillance and piracy occurring, so why were VPN's overlooked as a corporate utility for remote employees until 2010? What changed? After 2010 and the Snowden revelations in 2013 VPN's and VPN providers sprung up seemingly out of nowhere. Removing the Snowden leaks from consideration, why were VPN's first used to protect the privacy and security of citizens in the first place when the technology was designed for a completely different reason?

Hey All, I use PfSense with AirVPN and its set up to use AirVPN DNS (10.39.0.1 IIRC) to prevent DNS leakage, however the "client" in Pfsense is configured to use europe.vpn.airdns.org which cannot resolve until the AirVPN is up. I've found out what europe.vpn.airdns.org CURRENTLY resolves to and used the IP instead to work around this, but i assume this changes frequently to manage load (correct?). So am i ok to just leave this as it is or should i be doing something else? Finally, download speed across the VPN are about 2-3Mbps when i have a 20Mbps connection - seems a little slow - anything i can check here?

Is anyone able to get good speeds on Alcor? The most i was able to get was 4-5 mbits/second. Other servers nearby in Latvia and Lithuania can get 20-40 mbits per second.

Just curious why Netherlands is the most used country aside from having the most servers. I always thought Sweden and Switzerland had better laws regarding privacy and filesharing. Could someone inform me of Netherlands benefits over other locations in Europe aside from having central peering? I mean, is there a non technical reason for it or is the peering the only thing that makes it preferable to other countries in Europe?

I want to run the VPN on my host machine while using a virtual machine (VM) Oracle VM Virtualbox to run my every day browsers and sites. I have tried my best today for several hours but I have had an extremely hard time setting it up. Some sites do not work properly. I am assuming this is a networking issue somewhere (host computer, VM settings, or router, or the VPN?). What needs to be done to get all the systems to work together? Symptoms are getting "localhost" white crash pages, sites not loading properly on the VM. I have tried also installing airvpn on the VM, but it does not connect (connection reset by peer or "Cannot login (An exception occurred during a WebClient request). Help is greatly appreciated!

I was connected to one of the VPN servers in sweden, and tried to check my bank account.... I got a malware warning (attached). ​Switched VPN server, and it went away. Not sure which server I was connected to, but it was in Sweden. Just a heads up!

I found this info here https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/4j3cna/purevpn_disconnect_your_vpn_or_enter_phone_number/ and somewhere else ( probably there too ) i heard the same with ID pictures. So they actually straight Force their costumers to give out information else they cant use their vpn anymore So you cant buy them anonymous .

"LEAP is a non-profit dedicated to giving all internet users access to secure communication. Our focus is on adapting encryption technology to make it easy to use and widely available." LEAP develops the Bitmask application. "Bitmask is an open source application to provide easy and secure encrypted communication. You can choose among several different service providers or start your own. Currently, Bitmask supports encrypted internet (VPN) and encrypted email." "Bitmask is built using OpenVPN but with several security enhancements turned on by default. One of the biggest problems with encryption today is how it’s too easy to make mistakes, because of that, we are forcing security with Bitmask. It will prevent common VPN problems like DNS or IPv6 leaks or data going over the clear to the Internet if your connection with the VPN service repeatingly drops." -Riseup LEAP shares the same mission as AirVPN and they need support to develop their software. https://leap.se/en/about-us/donate

Dears, I've followed the tutorial on how to connect to AirVPN through DD-WRT but it seems that I can't do it on my own So I would appreciate your help The error I'm getting is: Clientlog: 20161112 18:22:31 N TLS Error: TLS handshake failed 20161112 18:22:31 I SIGUSR1[soft tls-error] received process restarting 20161112 18:22:31 Restart pause 2 second(s) 20161112 18:22:33 W NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts 20161112 18:22:33 Socket Buffers: R=[180224->131072] S=[180224->131072] 20161112 18:22:33 I UDPv4 link local: [undef] 20161112 18:22:33 I UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]109.232.227.148:443 20161112 18:23:33 N TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) 20161112 18:23:33 N TLS Error: TLS handshake failed 20161112 18:23:33 I SIGUSR1[soft tls-error] received process restarting 20161112 18:23:33 Restart pause 2 second(s) 20161112 18:23:35 W NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts 20161112 18:23:35 Socket Buffers: R=[180224->131072] S=[180224->131072] 20161112 18:23:35 I UDPv4 link local: [undef] 20161112 18:23:35 I UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]109.232.227.148:443 20161112 18:24:35 N TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) 20161112 18:24:35 N TLS Error: TLS handshake failed 20161112 18:24:35 I SIGUSR1[soft tls-error] received process restarting 20161112 18:24:35 Restart pause 2 second(s) 20161112 18:24:37 W NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts 20161112 18:24:37 Socket Buffers: R=[180224->131072] S=[180224->131072] 20161112 18:24:39 I UDPv4 link local: [undef] 20161112 18:24:39 I UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]213.152.162.103:443 20161112 18:25:07 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:16 20161112 18:25:07 D MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state' 20161112 18:25:07 MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected 20161112 18:25:07 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:16 20161112 18:25:07 D MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state' 20161112 18:25:07 MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected 20161112 18:25:07 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:16 20161112 18:25:07 D MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state' 20161112 18:25:07 MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected 20161112 18:25:07 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:16 20161112 18:25:07 D MANAGEMENT: CMD 'status 2' 20161112 18:25:07 MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected 20161112 18:25:07 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:16 20161112 18:25:07 D MANAGEMENT: CMD 'log 500' 20161112 18:25:07 MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected 20161112 18:25:39 N TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) 20161112 18:25:39 N TLS Error: TLS handshake failed 20161112 18:25:39 I SIGUSR1[soft tls-error] received process restarting 20161112 18:25:39 Restart pause 2 second(s) 20161112 18:25:41 W NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts 20161112 18:25:41 Socket Buffers: R=[180224->131072] S=[180224->131072] 20161112 18:25:41 I UDPv4 link local: [undef] 20161112 18:25:41 I UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]213.152.162.103:443 20161112 18:26:41 N TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) 20161112 18:26:41 N TLS Error: TLS handshake failed 20161112 18:26:41 I SIGUSR1[soft tls-error] received process restarting 20161112 18:26:41 Restart pause 2 second(s) 20161112 18:26:43 W NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts 20161112 18:26:43 Socket Buffers: R=[180224->131072] S=[180224->131072] 20161112 18:26:43 I UDPv4 link local: [undef] 20161112 18:26:43 I UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]213.152.162.103:443 20161112 18:27:43 N TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) 20161112 18:27:43 N TLS Error: TLS handshake failed 20161112 18:27:43 I SIGUSR1[soft tls-error] received process restarting 20161112 18:27:43 Restart pause 2 second(s) 20161112 18:27:45 W NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts 20161112 18:27:45 Socket Buffers: R=[180224->131072] S=[180224->131072] 20161112 18:27:45 I UDPv4 link local: [undef] 20161112 18:27:45 I UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]213.152.162.103:443 20161112 18:28:46 N TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) 20161112 18:28:46 N TLS Error: TLS handshake failed 20161112 18:28:46 I SIGUSR1[soft tls-error] received process restarting 20161112 18:28:46 Restart pause 2 second(s) 20161112 18:28:48 W NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts 20161112 18:28:48 Socket Buffers: R=[180224->131072] S=[180224->131072] 20161112 18:28:48 I UDPv4 link local: [undef] 20161112 18:28:48 I UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]213.152.162.103:443 20161112 18:29:48 N TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) 20161112 18:29:48 N TLS Error: TLS handshake failed 20161112 18:29:48 I SIGUSR1[soft tls-error] received process restarting 20161112 18:29:48 Restart pause 2 second(s) 20161112 18:29:50 W NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts 20161112 18:29:50 Socket Buffers: R=[180224->131072] S=[180224->131072] 20161112 18:29:52 I UDPv4 link local: [undef] 20161112 18:29:52 I UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]213.152.161.132:443 20161112 18:30:52 N TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) 20161112 18:30:52 N TLS Error: TLS handshake failed 20161112 18:30:52 I SIGUSR1[soft tls-error] received process restarting 20161112 18:30:52 Restart pause 2 second(s) 20161112 18:30:54 W NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts 20161112 18:30:54 Socket Buffers: R=[180224->131072] S=[180224->131072] 20161112 18:30:54 I UDPv4 link local: [undef] 20161112 18:30:54 I UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]213.152.161.132:443 20161112 18:30:55 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:16 20161112 18:30:55 D MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state' 20161112 18:30:55 MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected 20161112 18:30:55 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:16 20161112 18:30:55 D MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state' 20161112 18:30:55 MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected 20161112 18:30:55 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:16 20161112 18:30:55 D MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state' 20161112 18:30:55 MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected 20161112 18:30:55 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:16 20161112 18:30:55 D MANAGEMENT: CMD 'status 2' 20161112 18:30:55 MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected 20161112 18:30:55 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:16 20161112 18:30:55 D MANAGEMENT: CMD 'log 500' 19700101 01:00:00 ca /tmp/openvpncl/ca.crt cert /tmp/openvpncl/client.crt key /tmp/openvpncl/client.key management 127.0.0.1 16 management-log-cache 100 verb 3 mute 3 syslog writepid /var/run/openvpncl.pid client resolv-retry infinite nobind persist-key persist-tun script-security 2 dev tun1 proto udp cipher aes-256-cbc auth sha1 remote nl.vpn.airdns.org 443 comp-lzo yes tls-client tun-mtu 1500 mtu-disc yes ns-cert-type server fast-io tun-ipv6 tls-cipher TLS-DHE-RSA-WITH-AES-256-GCM-SHA384 Can someone please help me ? I've attached my config in DD-WRT Thanks.

I've recently purchased AirVPN and set up the client for usage with two windows devices, however I'm having issues with one of my Linux systems. In the first instance, when trying to install the client via the package installer, I received the message: Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: "libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil" ... Since I couldn't use the installer, I downloaded the mobile client instead. Everything seemed to be running smoothly, except when I ran a check on ipleak.net, I found that my UK details were displayed along with the foreign IP from the VPN. My accurate location was also shown on the Google Maps image at the bottom of the screen. This is not the case with either of my windows devices. In the windows instances, the only addresses and locations shown are those coming from the VPN. Also, the ipleaks check reads: "AirVPN Exit Node: No." With both my windows devices, this section reads: "AirVPN Exit Node: Yes." Forgive me if I sound foolish, but I really am confused as to what the issue could be. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Came across this article today. I think AirVPN runs Tor nodes, right? https://www.whonix.org/blog/combining-tor-vpn-proxy-can-make-less-anonymous "Tor avoids using more than one relay belonging to the same operator in the circuits it is building." ...but Tor isn't aware that my first connection to the internet is over VPN. So if Air is my first hop, and Air is also operating an exit that I connect to; they've become the first and last hop. This could expose Air users to correlation attacks. "It is possible to host Tor relays [any… bridges, entry, middle or exit] behind VPNs or tunnel-links. For example, there are VPN providers that support VPN port forwarding. This is an interesting way to contribute to Tor while not exposing oneself to too much legal risk. Therefore, there can be situations, where a VPN or other tunnel-link and a Tor relays could be hosted by the same operator, in the same network or even on the same IP."

Is AirVPN vulnerable to a MiTM attack by sysadmins looking to throttle their clients? According to http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/53444/vpns-vulnerable-to-mitm-because-any-certificate-goes OpenVPN does not validate that the cert is correct, thus making it possible for ISPs, sysadmins etc, to trick the client to use a fake cert so they may monitor the connections contents. Is AirVPN safe from this?

Hi guys, I've subscribed to the Airvpn service about 4 months ago and I'm very happy with it. Nevertheless, as a Linux user (currently Lubuntu 16.04) which isn't using the client option, it was becoming somewhat annoying to turn on and turn off the openvpn and the stunnel in different terminals every time. Few days ago I sat and wrote a small CLI script in python, that is automating the process of connecting and disconnecting to the Airvpn service. The script can be found here: https://github.com/hemulin/airvpn_toggler Simply put, what it does is: When turning on - 1) Scanning the configs files folder and asking you from which country you wish to exit 2) After you choose a country, it turns on the stunnel as a background process and waiting for it to finish the initialization 3) After the stunnel init has finished, it turns on the openvpn as a background process and waiting for it to finish init. 4) After the openvpn has finished its init, the script validates that the external IP has changed and if yes, adding a system tray indicator to show it is connected. When turning off - 1) Killing the system tray indicator, the openvpn and the stunnel processes. 2) Validating that the external IP has changed. Currently it is working well for me, but I still consider it to be a "work in progress", so (1) I still improves it and (2) Feel free to ask for features (and of course, forks and pull requests are welcome). Cheers, Hemulin

Hi, Every time I start up the AirVPN client on OS X, it prompts for admin credentials ("AirVPN wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."). My situation is such, that I need to launch AirVPN automatically and unintrusively on computer startup - without this dialog popping up every time. I've tried changing the owner of the app to root, and I've also tried an AppleScript as such: do shell script "sudo open -a /Applications/AirVPN.app" user name "User" password "PW" with administrator privileges but still no go, keeps asking for privileges. Is there a certain file that AirVPN is trying to modify that should perhaps be writable? Or how do I otherwise get around this? I've seen several similar threads on this forum, but so far no answer. This is crucial for me to keep using AirVPN service. If it is not possible, please let me know as well so I can look for a different solution. Thank you for your time!

I was thinking about setting up a self hosted VPN for fun to use on my Pi. I was thinking about using the Canada location... I know the France location is considered very safe. It seems they don't care about torrent sites/trackers, regular BitTorrent traffic, etc. but there doesn't seem to be much info on this in their Canada location. Any input is appreciated!

Two different topics in the same post since I can only make a single post a day. Sorry. First, what is the proper way to set the.ovpn configuration file in order to enable VPN through Tor? I have attempted using 127.0.0.1 as the SOCKS proxy but that has not worked. Maybe it has something to do with the control port? Second, I have been able to get Eddie started on CentOS 7, but for some reason, Eddie does not connect to any server. I used all default settings once, and then disabled DNS check. Posting relevant log below: I 2016.09.30 12:22:37 - Session starting. I 2016.09.30 12:22:38 - Checking authorization ... ! 2016.09.30 12:22:38 - Connecting to Gemma (Canada, Vancouver) . 2016.09.30 12:22:38 - OpenVPN > OpenVPN 2.3.12 x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [IPv6] built on Aug 23 2016 . 2016.09.30 12:22:38 - OpenVPN > library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013, LZO 2.06 . 2016.09.30 12:22:38 - OpenVPN > MANAGEMENT: TCP Socket listening on [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:3100 . 2016.09.30 12:22:38 - OpenVPN > Control Channel Authentication: tls-auth using INLINE static key file . 2016.09.30 12:22:38 - OpenVPN > Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication . 2016.09.30 12:22:38 - OpenVPN > Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication . 2016.09.30 12:22:38 - OpenVPN > Socket Buffers: R=[212992->262144] S=[212992->262144] . 2016.09.30 12:22:38 - OpenVPN > UDPv4 link local: [undef] . 2016.09.30 12:22:38 - OpenVPN > UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]##.##.###.###:443 . 2016.09.30 12:23:10 - OpenVPN > [UNDEF] Inactivity timeout (--ping-exit), exiting . 2016.09.30 12:23:10 - OpenVPN > SIGTERM received, sending exit notification to peer . 2016.09.30 12:23:15 - OpenVPN > SIGTERM[soft,exit-with-notification] received, process exiting ! 2016.09.30 12:23:15 - Disconnecting . 2016.09.30 12:23:15 - Connection terminated. I 2016.09.30 12:23:16 - Cancel requested. ! 2016.09.30 12:23:16 - Session terminated. If any advancements have been made in either issues, I would greatly appreciate any news - even if it's bad news.

On Aug 30, exactly a week ago, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communication, BEREC, launched their Guidelines on the Implementation by National Regulators of European Net Neutrality Rules. The original document is quite long. Those who decide to read it will come to many conclusions, two of them are these: You as a provider are not allowed to apply advertisement blocking in your network (before the traffic reaches your customers). You as a provider are therefore allowed to implement traffic management based on the category of traffic - wrote this way it's perfectly possible to throttle VPNs or BitTorrent.

​Hi everyone ​ ​I have installed ESXI 6.0 on my home server and I am trying to access each host console, but when I open ssh tunnel to port 443, 902 and 903 with putty I still don't have control over the host's console. ​ is there any special rules that I have to add on my pfsense firewall to access the console on each host. ​ ​Thank you ​ ​ ​ ​EDIT: ​ ​with ubuntu terminal I get message : Privileged can only be forwarded by root ​I just add SUDO at the front so I can get root then message : Permission denied (publickey). ​Do I have to install ssh key pair for root and add public key to my access server? ​ ​EDIT: ​ ​I just generated a keys for root and logged in as root opened a ssh tunnel as root to ports 443,902 and 903 ​ ​ I can't login I've got this message "[object, Object] " ​Is anyone know how to fix that? ​

Hello everyone I have a problem with Deluge when used with AirVPN, under Eddie client, v.2.10.3. If i don't activate AirVPN, Deluge is downloading at about 4MiB/s for a random debian image. If i do the same with AirVPN activated, my download speed becomes really slow, never above 40Kib/s. I've tried a lot of things. Changing server, configuring Eddie to use some other ports like SSL, SSH and other alternative ports, tried some parameters in Deluge too... And no changes... I double checked too that the port set in Deluge parameters is forwarded in my client interface on AirVPN website and still no changes. I noticed that my port forwarding in AirVPN website now indicates some bad result when I press the "check" button (not reachable, error 111). Why is it so now ? Other thing I noticed, when Deluge is started, i can barely surf the web, it's veeeeeeery slow. Seems like I have not only one problem, but at least two... Any suggestions ? Here's my config for Deluge : And my port forwarding in AirVPN website interface : Thanks in advance

Hello, It seems AirVPN client is not compatible with standard RPi2 Debian. After install it's not possible to launch AirVVPN client, it just closes. Log: http://pastebin.com/N4sxfg2v Mono version: Mono JIT compiler version 3.2.8 (Debian 3.2.8+dfsg-10) Copyright © 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.comTLS: __threadSIGSEGV: normalNotifications: epollArchitecture: armel,vfp+hardDisabled: noneMisc: softdebug LLVM: supported, not enabled.GC: sgen

Hello! I found an issue... When using the Testpage of AirVPN for DNS- and WebRTC-Leaks (www.ipleak.net) it's actually not showing WebRTC-Leaks, although they are there! Under circumstances this can cause serious trouble for the VPN-Users, because when they don't see any leaks, most of them will be sure that there are no leaks - but that can be very false! I discovered clear WebRTC-Leaks on a Windows7-machine + up-to-date Firefox; but ipleak.net only showed me the internal IP leaks! (which are actually not dangerous) I opened 2 Firefox-Windows while connected to a AirVPN-Server and while ipleak.net didn't show real-IP leaks, at the same moment another site clearly showed these WebRTC-leaks (GitHub)! As you can see on the screenshot ipleak.net doesn't show anything suspicious, but Github shows all the leaks including my real Provider-IP + all internal Network IP's; so actually EVERYTHING was leaking and totally broke the anonymity of AirVPN in my Browser! Now I want to know why ipleak.net provides WebRTC-leak-detecion, when it actually not working at all (also tested on Linux!) Try it yourself and you will see what I mean: 1. https://ipleak.net/ 2. https://diafygi.github.io/webrtc-ips/ Please also check my screenshot below! Btw. you can fix that leak easily in your Firefox-Settings! Answers are welcome! regards, me

Here is a vpn service that takes a very interesting approach to securing there users, please tell me what you think. https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/07/26/introduction-i2vpn/

wouldn't marketing vpns as anonymous be misleading due to the nature of the Internet and that it is actually impossible to achieve anonymity even with tor

Hello community, just wanted to ask your opinion, when VPN's are blocked on public wifi services (mall, airport, coffee shop etc.) is it done with the malicious intent to enforce the AUP or monitor their users activities for their own self defined reasons (aka i have the right to see your shit so imma snoop through all day because i can). Really, what are your feelings on public VPN blockages in general? Are they hurting privacy minded users by blocking VPNs? etc

Hello, I'm connected to the VPN after not synchronize MS OneNote or wiring Account.