[MertsA]

PIA before the Kape acquisition was owned by parent company London Trust Media. The owner is Andrew Lee, who was best buddies with Mark Karpeles responsible for the MtGox collapse and defrauding all the users of the exchange. Unfortunately the Japanese government let him out of jail and Andrew Lee decided to make his old friend the CTO of the company. Andrew Lee is also the guy behind the shady "sale" of the nonprofit Freenode that caused everyone to jump ship to LiberaChat.

I feel like it's probably more trustworthy under Kape than a CEO and CTO surrounded by a long history of lies, fraud, and general scumbag behavior.

[rsynnott]

Wait, Andrew Lee, despoiler of Freenode, also associated with the MtGox guy?! The weirder bits of the internet are apparently extremely incestuous.

[MertsA]

Birds of a feather and all that.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/why-i-hired-mt-go...

That's the same rasengan you'll occasionally see on HN.