[kwlug-disc] Private Internet Access goes Open Source

[Chamunks]

Indeed

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:17 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Now this sounds interesting...
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 at 22:06 Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>> I got it. It is PIA's swag specifically for KWLUG. For some reason, there
>> was no exhibition table for PIA. So, I got stuff by talking directly to rep
>> over the beer :) -- have no questions, just need swag for the LUG.
>>
>> I won't be in town on the first week of April. I am sure, you'll excuse
>> me, if I deliver swag on May session.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mikalai
>>
>> On 2018-03-21 02:07 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>>
>> I don't have any questions for them, but if you see any extra swag, I'll
>> take it!  lol
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 at 11:38 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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