My main question is, should we avoid VPN companies that are apart of the the 14 eyes, etc.? TIA!

  • 0xtero@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    It doesn’t mean anything at all. Swedish SIGINT agency has been working with 5-eyes for ages.

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    5 months ago

    You’ll likely be fine as long as you don’t use it to send classified military material to the Russians.

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    5 months ago

    If not Mullvad, then what? Generally the privacy community holds them up as the gold standard for private VPNs, and I wouldn’t know what to switch to if I were looking for better (read: outside the 14 eyes).

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        5 months ago

        I forgot about them (IVPN).

        Apparently Nord is outside the 14 eyes too, but I’m not excited about them – they’re more into KYC than other options. Decent track record (at least according to Wikipedia) though.