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There is a poject, Surveillance under Surveillance, which has been mapping surveillance cameras for more than 10 years. They are mapped in openstreetmap and anyone can add them.
Only a small fraction is maped in my western european country.
I use ivpn on my Linux computer and found it very easy to use.
Nops, and I think that it’s a bad move to change their business model to be a VPN provider to a catch-all security related provider, also I only have the standard tie which don’t have the DNS, mail redirection or portmaster services.
Furthermore, my threat model changed with the struggle for the independence of Catalonia, it put the state as my main adversary, and making them waste their time and resources with multiple subpoenas is a plus.
I started using ivpn almost 8 years ago, and I believe the default setting back then was to not use accounts with usernames.
Some of the key reasons I chose it at the time were port forwarding (this service was later discontinued), its open-source F-Droid application, the ability to configure the WireGuard connection on my Linux machine without the application (I never tried it), its commitment to user anonymity (zero logs, payment methods, etc.), external audits, and the fact that it wasn’t based in an EU member state (ivpn is a Gibraltar-based company).
The last reason is that I live in the EU, which shouldn’t be a problem for those who don’t.
Since then, I haven’t bothered to check how the VPN industry has evolved. Thanks for the thorough answer.
IVPN is often cited as an alternative to Mullvad. Is there any reason not to consider it now?
I strongly dissagree. Cannot be neutrality with fascism.
No, I didnt’t say that. I’ve said:
No, there is not an antifascist position on their statement. Only a ultracentrist position based on the reaction of their user base/market.
See the original paragraph:
I understand that they would have removed also the sponsorship of a feminist, vegan or antiracist that created discontent in their use base (by being feminist, vegan or antiracist).
No, there is not an antifascist position on their statement. Only a ultracentrist position based on the reaction of their user base/market.
Am I being to paranoid ?
No, you are not enough paranoid if you don’t have the same or worse concerns about games developed in western countries. e.g. five eyes alliance.
IVPN removed port-forwarding two years ago.
I agree that signal has a more robust security model. What I mean is that itbhasbalso habe risks, and a lot of people are ignoring it.
The backdoor could be a sleeping function activated from outside to targets of interest or ‘special’ updates from the google store (i.e.: with the help of google install a different version of the app to the target). But I’m not a security nor android expert, and it’s all theoretical if this attack vector is possible, but I think that is unlikely.
Also, if the NATO country where I live wants to spy my mobile, it would use Pegasus 🤷🏽♀️
Off topic: The Signal reproducible builds don’t work since, at least, may.
Signal can add backdoors to their own app and, if the app get compromised (or the device) the security of the encryption model is not relevant. It’s the reason because I see comparable Signal and Telegram.
Signal is open source, but (info based in this 3 years old thread on f-droid):
Which no seems FOSS friendly.
nd when a judge or a 3 letters agency will request to Signal that they want access to the messages that somebody will send from a date?
It’s their app, and they can do it. Do you think that they will refuse?
At least one of your down votes is for being racist and ableist. Could you remove it?
This article is a not sense. There is not a monopoly of identity: a lot of corporations and big tech have an ID about us or, at least, about me.
Also, in my case, the state have paid most of my education, my healthcare, the street where I live… nor google not other big tech have paid a dime for it.
The critic in the article has his points, but the proposed solution—using capitalist enterprises to issue IDs—is nonsense. We will lose track of people from a fiscal point of view, and it will not solve the problem of the people that not any corporation would issue an ID.
No, I think that there should not be a anti-AI rule. People can downvote those post if they are anti AI.