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PSA: ExpressVPN, PIA, and Cyberghost are all run by Israeli intelligence (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by silent_water@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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they were all owned by the same company and sold to Kape, which has ties to the Israeli intelligence service, a few years back.

The issue is who he sold it to -- the notorious creator of some pernicious data-huffing ad-ware, Crossrider. The UK-based company was cofounded by an ex-Israeli surveillance agent and a billionaire previously convicted of insider trading who was later named in the Panama Papers. It produced software which previously allowed third-party developers to hijack users' browsers via malware injection, redirect traffic to advertisers and slurp up private data.

I personally use perfect-privacy, which didn't turn up any red flags when I did research a few years ago. it's a little lacking in features but openvpn isn't that hard to set up on linux & android. no clue how well their desktop app works.

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[-] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Huh I've been using that same integration for years with ubuntu, and now pop os, and haven't seen an option to auto-connect... Not sure I'd want to anyhow for this particular device since I have a bunch of different vpns configured but wondering where you set that? Maybe it's just Pop that doesn't have that in the UI? I'm sure I can toggle it in nmcli

[-] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

The old Pop! shell (I assume you're using the old one since last I checked the new one written in rust isn't ready to daily yet, hopefully soon though...) hasn't gotten any love in a long time, but I'm surprised you don't see it in Ubuntu. Here's what it looks like for me on Fedora:

[-] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

what's weird is I see that on wifi connections but not VPN. On VPN I only get "Make available to other users". Maybe it's the openvpn integration specifically, as opposed to wireguard. I haven't checked ubuntu recently but I don't thiiiink I had it on 18.04/20.04

[-] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

Oh that could be, I'll set up an openVPN connection later and see if it's any different.

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