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| schestowitz | Okay.. So, just watched your 20-min video, and seems like you didn't care enough to spend a few minutes on searching for the controversies surrounding PIA. Kind of disappointing. You just had to check HN and Reddit for a quick rundown. | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21584958 (with sources) | May 23 00:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | Do we have a potential VPN criminal conglomerate? | Hacker News | May 23 00:13 | |
| schestowitz | https://teddit.net/r/Windscribe/comments/dyzeey/do_we_now_have_a_potential_vpn_criminal/ (same post with more comments) | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | It's obviously not my job to criticize yours or do your job for you for that matter, but here I am trying to be helpful, since you've been posing as someone aiming to be neutral on the freenode situation. The things below are certainly not hard evidence that unquestionably prove any wrongdoings by PIA but they discredit your claim of PIA being or had been in the past free of controveries. Actually they are one of the more controversial | May 23 00:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-teddit.net | Do we now have a potential VPN criminal conglomerate? : Windscribe | May 23 00:13 | |
| schestowitz | VPN providers. | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | 1. The controversy around the no-log proof: | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | 1.1. https://archive.is/6y0Wu - This links to a thread of the now nuked forum of PIA. Pay attention to what the user "jbis" had to say. You can dismiss this as just an argument about semantics, but in my opinion it exposed how PIA tried to distort the facts for marketing purposes. You can also find links to the actual court documents in that thread, they're still up. There were other similar threads about this issue on that forum which | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | went deeper and touched other very related topics, but they got locked quickly and completely taken down later. | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | 1.2. An AirVPN forum user (there might be a conflict of interest here, not sure), "larky" compiled a post about the events here: | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/23959-private-internet-access-caught-lying-about-their-no-logging-statements/?do=findComment&comment=66323 | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | Especially see the paragraphs which start with "According to an ex-PIA employee" and grep for "proprietary methods." | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | 2. The controversy around PIA/Andrew taking shots at ProtonVPN and NordVPN | May 23 00:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 500 @ https://archive.is/6y0Wu ) | May 23 00:13 | |
| schestowitz | To be quite honest, rasengan made some good comments about those companies, most of them seemed to be fairly well substantiated, but I cannot ignore the possible intent which very likely was to harm the competition. | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | HN thread - https://archive.is/VMKxI | May 23 00:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-airvpn.org | Private Internet Access caught lying about their no-logging statements - Off-Topic - AirVPN | May 23 00:13 | |
| schestowitz | Reddit thread - https://archive.is/6N0Km | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | 3. The controversy around selling PIA to Kape Technologies and hiring Mark Karpeles | May 23 00:13 |
| schestowitz | 3.1. One of the founders of Kape Technologies is Teddy Saggi, some Israeli forex billionaire who has investments in gambling and online advertising among other ventures and who spent 9 months incarcerated for fraud and bribery. Kape Technologies used to be in the online advertising business under the name Crossrider which distributed literal malware in their browser add-ons and was rebranded as a cybersecurity company in 2018. | May 23 00:14 |
| schestowitz | https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/pup-optional-crossrider/ | May 23 00:14 |
| schestowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Sagi | May 23 00:14 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 500 @ https://archive.is/VMKxI ) | May 23 00:14 | |
| schestowitz | 3.2. Mark Karpeles is the ex-CEO of Mt.Gox. | May 23 00:14 |
| schestowitz | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-15/former-bitcoin-baron-mark-karpeles-gets-suspended-jail-term | May 23 00:14 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 500 @ https://archive.is/6N0Km ) | May 23 00:14 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blog.malwarebytes.com | PUP.Optional.Crossrider - Malwarebytes Labs | Malwarebytes Labs | Detections | May 23 00:14 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Teddy Sagi - Wikipedia | May 23 00:14 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.bloomberg.com | Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles Gets Suspended Jail Sentence - Bloomberg | May 23 00:14 | |
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| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/gy_sh1n/status/1392558153292820480 | May 23 06:37 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@gy_sh1n: Oooooh! #dragonflyBSD #BSD #UNIX #FOSS https://t.co/FUIVnHjCEe | May 23 06:37 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@tuxmachines: DragonflyBSD 6.0 Released https://t.co/CVW5Cch2X1 | May 23 06:37 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/XfceNation/status/1391677770284027905 | May 23 06:37 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@XfceNation: @rjdohnert @akai11nj @DistroWatch @tuxmachines @linuxdotcom @xfceofficial @Category5TV @linuxjournal @FoxNews… https://t.co/2GU2dZxyXt | May 23 06:37 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@XfceNation: @rjdohnert @akai11nj @DistroWatch @tuxmachines @linuxdotcom @xfceofficial @Category5TV @linuxjournal @FoxNews… https://t.co/2GU2dZxyXt | May 23 06:37 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | May 23 06:37 |
| schestowitz__ | If you are looking to host your ISOs on bittorrent, our friends at | May 23 06:37 |
| schestowitz__ | @FossTorrents | May 23 06:37 |
| schestowitz__ | can help with that. | May 23 06:37 |
| schestowitz__ | " | May 23 06:37 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/librerydia/status/1391615848427577344 | May 23 06:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@librerydia: Freespire in the Linspire period had many customizations over KDE3 which greatly improved the overally usability, a… https://t.co/D8aj9BLIce | May 23 06:38 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@librerydia: Freespire in the Linspire period had many customizations over KDE3 which greatly improved the overally usability, a… https://t.co/D8aj9BLIce | May 23 06:38 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | May 23 06:38 |
| schestowitz__ | Freespire in the Linspire period had many customizations over KDE3 which greatly improved the overally usability, and the custom KDE theme/color/etc. looked pretty neat IMO. | May 23 06:38 |
| schestowitz__ | By contrast I fail to see any reason to choose the current versions of Freespire over vanilla Ubuntu. | May 23 06:38 |
| schestowitz__ | " | May 23 06:38 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/Mikael_Arling/status/1390373739456573440 | May 23 06:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Mikael_Arling: @tuxmachines 😃👍 | May 23 06:38 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/librerydia/status/1387983245472526346 | May 23 06:39 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@librerydia: though I somewhat agree with RMS on this point (secure boot is indeed used on some ARM devices as a restriction but… https://t.co/2m5tFNFliQ | May 23 06:39 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@librerydia: though I somewhat agree with RMS on this point (secure boot is indeed used on some ARM devices as a restriction but… https://t.co/2m5tFNFliQ | May 23 06:39 | |
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| schestowitz__ | Rydia | May 23 06:39 |
| schestowitz__ | @librerydia | May 23 06:39 |
| schestowitz__ | · | May 23 06:39 |
| schestowitz__ | Apr 30 | May 23 06:39 |
| schestowitz__ | though I somewhat agree with RMS on this point (secure boot is indeed used on some ARM devices as a restriction but on current PCs it's just a hassle) - it's NOT being 'used' to prevent users from installing ubuntu in this case. | May 23 06:39 |
| schestowitz__ | assuming ill intents definitely sounds unhealthy. | May 23 06:39 |
| schestowitz__ | Quote Tweet | May 23 06:39 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/librerydia/status/1387966308914843651 | May 23 06:39 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@librerydia: secure boot anti-feature is easy to disable and I could not understand the reason to pay Microsoft to sign the boot… https://t.co/fiwobikvVp | May 23 06:39 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@librerydia: secure boot anti-feature is easy to disable and I could not understand the reason to pay Microsoft to sign the boot… https://t.co/fiwobikvVp | May 23 06:39 | |
| schestowitz__ | "secure boot anti-feature is easy to disable and I could not understand the reason to pay Microsoft to sign the bootloader (just to make it 'easier' for unskilled users...? but if user can change boot order in BIOS settings they should be able to disable secure boot)" | May 23 06:39 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/PeterStoun/status/1387753014320979970 | May 23 06:39 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@PeterStoun: @tuxmachines Tnx. | May 23 06:39 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/0xFreak71/status/1386302983361683461 | May 23 06:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@0xFreak71: @tuxmachines No good. KDE and Deepin are much more beautifull, xfce can be but isnt by default (I use it), KDE is b… https://t.co/PI9WWWlkTR | May 23 06:40 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@0xFreak71: @tuxmachines No good. KDE and Deepin are much more beautifull, xfce can be but isnt by default (I use it), KDE is b… https://t.co/PI9WWWlkTR | May 23 06:40 | |
| schestowitz__ | "No good. KDE and Deepin are much more beautifull, xfce can be but isnt by default (I use it), KDE is by far the more rich and complete environment. Missing, i3/sway which are favorite at #unixporn and much more of oldest like fvwm." | May 23 06:40 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/gy_sh1n/status/1383161731610992641 | May 23 06:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@gy_sh1n: Devuan linux is free of systemd :) #devuan #gnulinux #initfreedom #nosystemd Devuan 4.0 Alpha now available… https://t.co/hEbzIrs4wH | May 23 06:41 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@gy_sh1n: Devuan linux is free of systemd :) #devuan #gnulinux #initfreedom #nosystemd Devuan 4.0 Alpha now available… https://t.co/hEbzIrs4wH | May 23 06:41 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/PeterStoun/status/1382804884416761857 | May 23 06:41 |
| schestowitz__ | "Why this? Mah... | ProtonMail is one of the best secure email services out there. Recently, in an announcement, ProtonMail has made it accessible for all users for free." | May 23 06:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@PeterStoun: @tuxmachines Why this? Mah... | ProtonMail is one of the best secure email services out there. Recently, in an ann… https://t.co/nmQe1Awb1o | May 23 06:41 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@PeterStoun: @tuxmachines Why this? Mah... | ProtonMail is one of the best secure email services out there. Recently, in an ann… https://t.co/nmQe1Awb1o | May 23 06:41 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/gy_sh1n/status/1382753366518996996 | May 23 06:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@gy_sh1n: Slackware 15 beta has been released. Keep an eye on the Richter scale! #slackware #gnulinux #linux #sysvinit… https://t.co/28KkJbVmbS | May 23 06:41 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@gy_sh1n: Slackware 15 beta has been released. Keep an eye on the Richter scale! #slackware #gnulinux #linux #sysvinit… https://t.co/28KkJbVmbS | May 23 06:41 | |
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