[kwlug-disc] Private Internet Access goes Open Source

[CrankyOldBugger]

Just read your link, Chamunks.  Nice.

On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 at 08:13 CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've found installing the whole PIA package on Fedora to be quite painless
> as well.  Other than the goofy passwords they issue, it's very
> straightforward.
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 at 23:52 Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Did I hear someone say OpenVPN is a pain to configure?
>> https://github.com/Angristan/OpenVPN-install < this is a beautiful thing.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:35 PM Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> PIA absolutely uses OpenVPN, but OpenVPN is kind of a pain to configure.
>>> So they provide VPN clients that skip all the configuration work. And
>>> that's what they're releasing (one of the things, anyway).
>>>
>>> I haven't been able to get the Linux client to work, so I just configure
>>> OpenVPN. They provide instructions to do that too.
>>>
>>> Darcy.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <
>>> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On a technical side, VPN better be something like existing standard and
>>>> do not require active MitM on every SSL (cloud flare ?).
>>>>
>>>> On a human side, classical VPN requires trust to provider, unlike onion
>>>> routing. If these guys, Private Internet Access, can be trusted, you may
>>>> have a little faster traffic metadata hiding than Tor.
>>>>
>>>> Private Internet Access will be at LibrePlanet this Saturday-Sunday,
>>>> and I'll have a chance to talk with them. Send me questions, you want them
>>>> to answer. Think of uncomfortable questions, that can be answered only
>>>> face-to-face, without corporate veil.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Mikalai
>>>>
>>>> On 2018-03-21 08:16 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well they use OpenVPN for much of the heavy lifting.  I imagine the
>>>> software they're releasing as FOSS is more of the back end stuff, I
>>>> guessing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 at 23:07 Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there anything interesting about their VPN protocol that is any
>>>>> better then OpenVPN?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:17 AM CrankyOldBugger <
>>>>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I know there are a few people in this group who use this company
>>>>>> besides myself, so I thought this would be interesting news:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/03/private-internet-access-goes-open-source
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you are looking for a VPN company, I do recommend these guys...
>>>>>>
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