| > guy who destroyed Mt Gox Let me correct that for you - the guy who brought you the first Bitcoin exchange and arguably helped pave the way for cryptocurrencies today. > guy who destroyed Freenode This was already debunked [1]. I tried to save freenode - I was the only one funding it up until the point where freenode's ownership "gave" it to me essentially which resulted in the non-developer staff to attempt to hostile takeover the network [2]. The end result was that they gave control of the domain back to me (and as a result, freenode). > Personally, I'd rather trust in Mullvad. Trusting random teams of people on the internet isn't exactly a form of security or privacy. Developers and cypherpunks trust code, not words. If you're a developer, I'd highly suggest you read the code. > This VPN requires you to trust in Intel You really can't use the internet or any internet-distributed software without trusting Intel. Maybe you're better off logging out if that is your policy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [1] http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/lee-side.pd... [2] Funny how non-developers keep ruining Open Source (Mozilla, and many others - see Lunduke Journal for more). |
Not sure how you can "debunk" that Freenode was destroyed - it clearly was - and the fact that an identical network minus that person is now running just fine, proves that person was the problem. All evidence points to the fact that Freenode (under a different name) seems to have been saved by kicking out the guy who was trying to blackmail it by having ownership of the name Freenode.
You're right, Intel CPUs aren't trustworthy either since they tend to stop working after just a year or so. I have a greater confidence that my CPU doesn't contain an intentional remotely exploitable backdoor, because that takes serious effort (also because it's AMD), than that Intel hasn't sent a couple of short bitstrings to the US government.