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Popular VPN provider Private Internet Access (PIA) is set to be acquired by Kape Technologies. This will transform the company into a major player in the VPN industry. The deal has sparked a lively debate about Kape's intentions and PIA's future, but the company stresses that it remains committed to protecting the privacy of its users.
In recent years it's become a well-established brand that has had its no-logging policy tested in court, with success.
This week the company announced that some changes are afoot. PIA's parent organization LTMI Holdings is in the process of a merger acquisition by the publicly traded Kape Technologies, which also owns the Cyberghost and Zenmate VPN services.
As part of the planned deal, Kape will pay $95.5 million. Part of this will be paid in cash, Vox reports, and Kape is also planning to pay the $32.1 million in existing debt PIA has on the books.
Oh well. Nothing good lasts forever.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-to-be-acquired-by-kape/
(Score: 4, Informative) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday November 28 2019, @05:24PM (1 child)
Everything about PIA seems too perfect.
I wiresharked their mac application phoning home for telemetry, spraying to ip addresses all over, try it for yourself. I do not see how this helps the vpn service, the same telemetry that determines the optimal routing identifies my location by definition.
I do not believe in closed source vpn applications, neither should you.
Torguard and Nordvpn are almost certainly the police, I used both for a time and in both cases something was off.
I didn't realize torguard was in florida. Avoid any software from florida or utah like bluehost, these are the places most tightly integrated with the us spying apparatus.
Im not going to say what I would use, but you should look in a country that isn't dealing with fascism and that doesnt use invasion of privacy as the #1 law enforcement tactic.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday November 28 2019, @05:27PM
oh and virginia is pretty pretty dicey networking territory also...
I mean the reasoning to open vpn packets is the same to open mail, you are not allowed to have secrets, plebe.