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Was it the CEO who locked the thread, some developer, or some PR person? There's a difference though between an emotional reaction by an employee and a company'

Was it the CEO who locked the thread, some developer, or some PR person? There's a difference though between an emotional reaction by an employee and a company's policy. edit - I read the thread, it appears to be one of the original researchers from the project and a deliberate choice. I thought PIA was fairly reputable - does anybody know any actual facts around the incident?

sublupo 8y ago
Based on this: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9j35ry/i_am_dr_andy_yen_a_particle_physicist_who_left/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9j35ry/i_am_dr_andy_y... It appears to be Andy Yen, the founder of ProtonMail.
bscphil 8y ago
When you say "PIA", are you referring to PrivateInternetAccess, or did you mean ProtonVPN?
- jammygit 8y ago
  private internet access
protonmail 8y ago
It was indeed a deliberate choice, and we have explained the reasons why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18479922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18479922
rasengan 8y ago
Hi Jammy, My name is Andrew from PIA. I don’t know about our reputation, and quite frankly, I don’t think it’s a good idea to simply blindly trust any VPN. You need to look at track record more so than anything else. To that extent, PIA is the only VPN that has been verified as not logging by courts on multiple occassions. That being said, we have been subject to a slanderous defamatory campaign by ProtonVPN for some time. I chose to ignore it but now his claims are going too far. This all started when I shared a few links proving that ProtonVPN was controlled by NordVPN/TESONET’s CEO and that the ProtonVPN android app was signed by Tesonet. I believe I did the right thing by sharing the facts about ProtonVPN given it is a purported privacy company - I thought people would want to know their android app was signed by Tesonet which says it is a data mining and machine learning firm on their own website. If I was born again and had the same decision in front of me, I would make the same decision in every lifetime. If you think that me standing by my beliefs and values makes PIA lose reputation - I hope PIA losses ALL OF ITS rep.

sublupo 8y ago

Based on this: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9j35ry/i_am_dr_andy_yen_a_particle_physicist_who_left/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9j35ry/i_am_dr_andy_y... It appears to be Andy Yen, the founder of ProtonMail.

bscphil 8y ago

When you say "PIA", are you referring to PrivateInternetAccess, or did you mean ProtonVPN?

jammygit 8y ago
private internet access

protonmail 8y ago

It was indeed a deliberate choice, and we have explained the reasons why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18479922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18479922

rasengan 8y ago

Hi Jammy, My name is Andrew from PIA. I don’t know about our reputation, and quite frankly, I don’t think it’s a good idea to simply blindly trust any VPN. You need to look at track record more so than anything else. To that extent, PIA is the only VPN that has been verified as not logging by courts on multiple occassions. That being said, we have been subject to a slanderous defamatory campaign by ProtonVPN for some time. I chose to ignore it but now his claims are going too far. This all started when I shared a few links proving that ProtonVPN was controlled by NordVPN/TESONET’s CEO and that the ProtonVPN android app was signed by Tesonet. I believe I did the right thing by sharing the facts about ProtonVPN given it is a purported privacy company - I thought people would want to know their android app was signed by Tesonet which says it is a data mining and machine learning firm on their own website. If I was born again and had the same decision in front of me, I would make the same decision in every lifetime. If you think that me standing by my beliefs and values makes PIA lose reputation - I hope PIA losses ALL OF ITS rep.