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posted by chromas on Tuesday April 02 2019, @10:24AM   Printer-friendly
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Cloudflare Announces Free VPN Service for Faster, More Private Internet

On the footsteps of the company's launch of the private DNS service with the 1.1.1.1 IP address, Cloudflare today announced the launch of the free Warp VPN service that it claimed will not only keep your data private, but also make your internet connections faster.

Warp is Cloudflare's first attempt at building a VPN service that anyone, even non-technical people, can use through the company's 1.1.1.1 mobile application, launched in November, last year.

Warp promises not just an easy-to-use interface free of the clunkiness of most other VPN clients, but also a level of performance and security that the vast majority of VPN services don't have.

For starters, Warp uses the much more modern Wireguard protocol, not OpenVPN. [...] Cloudflare [...] is in a good spot to offer fast connectivity to many websites whose content Cloudflare may already be caching near you.

[...] Cloudflare [...] aims to pay for the free service via its premium "Warp+" subscription plan that users can buy to gain access to an even faster private Cloudflare infrastructure, plus other features.

[...] The Warp VPN service is not yet available for use but should be soon, Cloudflare said.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aiwarrior on Tuesday April 02 2019, @10:58AM (7 children)

    by aiwarrior (1812) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @10:58AM (#823553) Journal

    I guess it is good for porn, but nothing else. I am pretty sure that NSA/CIA is financing the VPN freedom

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bradley13 on Tuesday April 02 2019, @12:15PM (6 children)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @12:15PM (#823572) Homepage Journal

    This. I want to trust my VPN provider, but can I? Really? After a fair bit of research, I also chose PIA. However, PIA is an American corporation, and hence, vulnerable to US laws and regulations, which include secret warrants and secret courts. Not what you want in a civilized country. However, even choosing a non-US provider is no guarantee - there's no reason the US, or Russia, or China, or whoever couldn't put up a front in some other country.

    Really, you can only do so much. Any VPN is better than no VPN. Even if you do nothing you care about publishing to the world, by increasing encrypted traffic, you provide cover for people who do need the security.

    Still, I wish there were some way to be truly certain about trustworthiness. Maybe I can get some sparkles and unicorn farts too...

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by aiwarrior on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:33PM (1 child)

      by aiwarrior (1812) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:33PM (#823592) Journal

      Actually I think you are making a small confusion. More encryption on the internet does not mean the VPN is the correct means to achieve that end. This because there is a single point of collection when you use a giant VPN provider. No longer does an adversary need to stretch it's resources thin to cover the huge amount of possible connections. It just needs to tap the main pipe and everything comes and goes from there. Also there is already a social selection of the kind of people that use VPNs. This why https is a better mechanism. Due to it's default usage by the average Amish Joe, your communication does not come out as suspicious because it is encrypted.

      If you think the VPN is exactly contrary to the concept of TOR, which was specifically designed to make it hard for an adversary to compromise the privacy of communications. TOR's strength is in massively distributing the message so as to make it very unlikely that an adversary has access to all the big picture of the secret message.

      Also because of PIA being turned on by default i was banned from Pokerstars and they then required me to provide a copy of ID and credit card by email, which obviously i did not give them. I lost good money there because of that. Not inherent to PIA, but VPNs have a higher likelihood of being rejected by content providers. Again because users of VPNs are not the norm, they can be easily singled out and banned.

      • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday April 02 2019, @11:19PM

        by darkfeline (1030) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @11:19PM (#823852) Homepage

        I don't think anyone is suggesting dropping encryption over VPN. VPN users are going to be using HTTPS over VPN. As you say, VPN is always going to be the minority. But if we can get that to be a 20% minority instead of a 0.01% minority, it's going to make the snoopers' jobs much more difficult.

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    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday April 02 2019, @03:54PM (1 child)

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @03:54PM (#823650) Journal

      Still, I wish there were some way to be truly certain about trustworthiness.

      You can't even trust friends and family, so forget about it. Trust isn't necessarily a good thing anyway. If you have to trust somebody, he is not your friend.

      As for the internet, the only important thing is getting around the interference.

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      • (Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Tuesday April 02 2019, @03:56PM

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday April 02 2019, @03:56PM (#823651) Journal

        Let me put it another way.

        You trust your adversaries, not your allies.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 03 2019, @12:51AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 03 2019, @12:51AM (#823879)

      Trust? How about NordVPN?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @05:01AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @05:01AM (#828871)

      Anything less will not give the sort of legal autonomy to have a truly secure and extralegal VPN solution. And don't be suprised if it gets hacked or has to destroy some/all of its infrastructure to keep you secure. If it isn't doing that regularly you probably aren't.

      Having said that, soliciting interest, not donations, now towards the eventual goal of it. Wifi and satellite relays with undersea fiber if finances accrue.