[kwlug-disc] Private Internet Access goes Open Source

[CrankyOldBugger]

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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