safeplanet-fesa

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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
Over the course of the disclosure of the connection between NordVPN, Tesonet, and possibly ProtonVPN, Proton's story kept changing. They said contradicting things multiple times. They locked the Reddit thread. Why did Proton keep chang
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
What about the data-mining and selling infrastructure of NordVPN, known as Tesonet? Are those intact? Also interesting to know how their legal departments are doing, such as the Panamanian shell and the Lithuanian headquarters. http:/
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
Jokes on them, I still use Chromium 67 from chromium.woolyss.com. It's the last version before WebRTC became unremovable. Now it's impossible to download this version, only the new ones. Woolyss should have kept it, like they keep
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
I'm not willing to really try to prove that BAT embedded in Brave is a fundamentally flawed project. Because there are so many project of this kind in the current blockchain industry that I dislike very much, that I don't have e
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
Exactly. I am a big hater of everything that even remotely feels like a shitcoin. BAT is a silly useless project; I would not hate it if there was no conflict of interests, even if it's a silly project; but there is a huge conflict of
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
The best way to learn about the incident is to read the discussions first-hand from the Hacker News, for example, by searching "inurl:ycombinator protonvpn tesonet". There is no point in reading any journalistic articles if you ca
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
I use "inurl:ycombinator", saves even more time when typing manually.
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
I have an even broader question: why do articles talking about some subject, have a random image representing the subject attached? For example, if an article talks about coffee, there will be a picture of a random cup of coffee or a random
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
I agree, drug withdrawal is painful with opioids and unbearably hellish is GABAergics, and quitting can be very hard. But having purpose in life is what defines if one will stay clean forever or will relapse time after time. I can also add
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
It's wise of you not to trust the ratings. Practically all VPN provider rating websites give those score based purely of their affiliate fees [0]. I would recommend not to purchase any subscriptions. This whole "VPN for privacy&qu
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
I meant that using some paid VPN for privacy is not recommended because in most cases it doesn't improve privacy, only costs money. Obviously, there is nothing wrong with connecting to your own VPN server at home when you are away, in
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
I strongly believe that calling medications by their brand name is a bad idea. It's marketing departments' work to put into peoples' heads their stupid and annoying brand names. They want people to seek %brand_name% rather th
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
NordVPN is a data mining fraud, that is inadequately aggressively advertised from every corner, that owns many websites with VPN rankings, that lies about being in Panama, that decreases your privacy much by retaining logs. The only valid r
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
You can also search for *.etl files to find what is traced. There are Autologger and GlobalLogger for live kernel tracing. Some of the tracing entries are present by default, but others are added by Intel's drivers! I could not control
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
I use my current YouTube account for two and a half years. In this time period I clicked "Not interested" in the right sidebar with suggestions around 3000 times - very many times, and I keep clicking it. Due to this huge effort,
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
I think that it's shady too. I don't know much about Brave and don't want to know. To me a huge red flag is that Brave tries to push its Basic Attention Token (BAT). BAT is a token of low quality because of the following reas
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
I had to help some regular computer user to clean their computer; one of the user's requests was to "fix" their McAfee, meaning, to update the subscription and solve other "security threats" (not viruses) that McAfe
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
The society will not like your attitude; expect to experience continuous peer pressure. Nearly everyone is hard-coded with the unconditional "never give up", "hope dies last" and so on. The common arguments "might a
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
Big online journals in terms of tracking are the worst. At the moment every big online journal is worse than any overpriced boutique shop that uses all kinds of filthy upselling techniques (fake discounts, spam, bait and switch, shaming etc
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
I used to be one using and praising ProtonMail, but after the Tesonet scandal turned me around. The worst evidence for me was their responses, how they were constantly calling it a "smear campaign by PIA", often not providing any
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
Likely, in Lithuania, where they are subject to data retention laws, which means they are obliged to keep data for 6 month. I can suggest to search for "NordVPN Tesonet", the scandal that happened a year ago or so. The data mining
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by safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
NordVPN is one of the ugliest in the on its own shady VPN business. They did their best to slowly make the Tesonet scandal slide away. Here on HN some users provided extensive insights about their connections with the Lithuanian data mining