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by acatton 1189 days ago
I am not related to them, I'm just a user of it. But Mullvad.net is the only decent VPN. (They're the one Mozilla chose to provide their VPN infrastructure)

They've been audited https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/22/vpn-server-audit-found...

I have no financial incentive to vouch for them. But what do you care, I'm just a random guy on the internet.
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gjsman-1000 1189 days ago
Never forget though, Auditing is only proof that it was secure at the moment of the audit. That applies to all VPNs and services.
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jakear 1189 days ago
Rather, auditing is only proof that the parts the auditors looked at were secure against what the the auditors knew to look for, at the moment of the audit.
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latchkey 1189 days ago
Auditing might not even cover the entire codebase.

For example, this is the writeup of the DeFi Euler hack yesterday by one of the sites listed auditors, who didn't actually audit the code that caused the bug...

https://medium.com/@omniscia.io/euler-finance-incident-post-...

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acatton 1189 days ago
That's true. Good point.
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maxloh 1189 days ago
How about ProtonVPN?
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ashirviskas 1188 days ago
Same company (no matter how hard they try to hide it), so unless it has better pricing or features, if you don't trust Nord, there's no reason you should trust Proton.

Though I do trust both, as Tesonet is based from here (Lithuania) and from my experiences with people who worked there, they have full trust in them and continue to use their services years after leaving the company.

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Birkalo 1186 days ago
> Same company (no matter how hard they try to hide it)

Do you mean that NordVPN and ProtonVPN are the same 'spiritually' in that they're both companies selling a VPN for profit? Or is there genuinely some business connection between them that I've missed?

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ashirviskas 1176 days ago
In the sense that there's a huge overlap of people who created Nord that are now working on Proton. Might be under the same employer indirectly (Tesonet or whatever they're called now). Whether officially they're under a different company/jurisdiction, that's a different thing.

From Tesonet[1]:

>We also provided ProtonVPN(opens in new tab) with operational and HR support when they decided to open an office in Vilnius.

>Contrary to all the myths and rumors, operations by different services have never been related to each other. The only common resources are the centralized HR and legal teams. We have strictly relied on this philosophy from the beginning in order to avoid any possible conflict of interest.

[1] - https://www.techradar.com/news/moving-the-vpn-industry-forwa...

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