Friendly reminder that NordVPN and ProtonMail are a honeypot; headquarters colocated with Tesonet, a Lithuanian data mining service. (whatever)

submitted ago by alele-opathic

Original page on the clearweb: http://vpnscam.com/tesonet-data-mining-company-owns-nordvpn-protonmail-protonvpn/

Offline archive (READ NOTES BELOW ON HOW TO OPEN): https://i.imgtc.com/FSzFXt6.png

TL;DR for those of you who won't bother reading:

NordVPN and Protonmail share a CEO. They claim to operate in Panama/Switzerland, but both companies are shell companies, owned fully by PROTONVPN LT, UAB, which is located in Lithuania, which has a law requiring 6 months of data retention (this matters, because, even though they tell you they keep no logs, they are legally required to maintain them). Finally, the headquarters of PROTONVPN LT, UAB, is in the very same building as TesoNet, a Lithuanian data mining service. ProtonVPN claims that the colocation is just happenstance, and they don't actually work with TesoNet, but researchers found NordVPN using privacy certificates signed by TesoNet in their official app binaries.

This also applies to DuckDuckGo as well, who was started by (((Gabriel Weinberg))) to capitalize on all of those wanting to jump ship from google, and does track clicks and links (though it claims not to). An article by the timesOfIsreal on Weinberg's site, which didn't have any traffic worth speaking of until the Snowden limited hangout, which pushed everyone even mildy privacy-aware straight into the dragnet.

 

Notes on "stealth archives": The archive is a zip file of the page as retrieved a few days ago by me via wget, renamed as a png so the imagehost would accept it. Rename to a zip file to view, or, if on linux, 7z can open it as is.

I call them "stealth archives" because the image host can't tell a download to view the content apart from a download by a browser to display the page, the ISP can only see the DNS resolves to an image host (which gives no hints), and it bypasses the (((internet Wayback Machine))), which watches who is interested in what sites and when, and will memoryhole 'dangerous' sites.

 

BTW, if the owner of imggoat sees this, your site crashes, showing a traceback, when uploading a not-png named as a png. Could be a security vulnerability, just throwing that out there.

Shoutout to @BloodAndHonour, whose recent recommendation of NordVPN prompted this post.

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ribble ago

son of a bitch

jewd_law ago

that's what I'm saying. what's the alternatives then? I moved all my Jewmail to Proton.

HulkInformation ago

There is no way to know one way or the other, could be just as likely op is trying to dissuade you from using these services because they're a jew trying to confuse. They don't know anything about it same as you or me. The email is encrypted, in fact they were struggling for a while with a bug that would encrypt it twice. So that the message that was sent and decrypted was gobbeldygook. If they're going through that much trouble just to collect data for the Lithuanian government then they earned it.

At least your email isn't being outright read by google anymore, analysed, and catalogued so that they can build an AI assisted human profile of you.