[dba-Tech] Mozilla VPN for everyone.

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Rocky:

Not really. 

The whole concept of a "private" VPN is to obscure your identity and keep no records of your activity...in fact these companies keep no records at all and do not even have the capabilities to do so. When you connect to one of these types of services, as far as anyone knows, your place of entry into the internet sphere is at one of the VPN provider servers portals. For example, I may be able to scan some documents or news-articles, that are geo-fenced, for only US consumption because as far as the website I am contacting, can evaluate, my location, is in San Francisco and because my address is a general use portal (IP address) there is no way to trace my start or real location or even who I am.

Aside: Naturally, governments like the US, China and Russia would like to block all anonymous portals and legislation to that affect is already in the works. But Europe is still the bastion of personal privacy and so far its citizens have voted for legislation to keep it that way. As always the leader of such rights and privacy is Switzerland...though Canada has a fairly good reputations but how long can Canada hold out against its neighbour?

Jim  

----- Original Message -----
From: "rockysmolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2018 10:13:05 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Mozilla VPN for everyone.

But using a VPN aren't you trading one watcher - your browser and/or your
ISP  -for another watcher, your VPN company?

r

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Lawrence
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2018 9:10 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Mozilla VPN for everyone.

Firefox has decided to sell a secure VPN service that can be used right from
the browser. It is actually a partnership with ProtonVPN
(https://protonvpn.com/) the famous owner of ProtonMail, the Swiss security
provider and a company that the US has not legal jurisdiction over:

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/10/22/18011072/firefox-protonvpn-
subscription-ad-mozilla
http://bit.ly/2Su6OWW

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SWISS BASED

We are headquartered in Switzerland which has some of the world's strongest
privacy laws. Switzerland is also outside of EU and US jurisdiction and is
not a member of the fourteen eyes surveillance network.

FREE VPN
We believe privacy and security are fundamental human rights, so we also
provide a free version of ProtonVPN to the public. Unlike other free VPNs,
there are no catches. We don't serve ads or secretly sell your browsing
history. ProtonVPN Free is subsidized by ProtonVPN paid users. If you would
like to support online privacy, please consider upgrading to a paid plan for
faster speeds and more features.

Jim
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