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Are you talking about Private Internet Access the VPN? If so, got anymore info on this?

• craftinator 5y ago
  Yes, that VPN. I don't have any hard info, links and such, but after reading a number of discussions on HN and actually debating with Andrew a bit about it back in 2019, I ended up dropping them because I no longer had faith in their trustworthiness. From what I remember of it, PIA hired Mark Karpeles as their CTO. Mark has a somewhat sordid history, and was involved with Kape (KAPE maybe?), which has a history with malware and privacy violations. The whole thing was murky, but I got the impression that Andrew was really dodgey about it, kept spewing canned PR statements about how Mark is a "really great guy" and how they were all so excited, and I believe the company actually changed hands. This is completely heresay on my part, I never did any real research, just got some bad impressions about the whole thing and switched to Mullvad. Actually, did dig up a relevant link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21679682 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21679682
  • speeder 5y ago
    The same Mark Kerpeles that almost went to jail because he stole MtGox customers money to buy a castle for his mom?
  • wearywanderer 5y ago
    > Mark has a somewhat sordid history, 'Somewhat sordid' is amusing understatement. Mark Karpeles is only slightly less criminal than Bernie Madoff.
    • craftinator 5y ago
      I've only done the lightest of research on it, and don't know any of the internal details, so I'd prefer to err on the side of being overly gracious. But from what I have heard, he doesn't have much in the way of scruples or morals.
  • depingus 5y ago
    Wow. Thanks for the info!