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Pirate Bay’s Ipredator VPN Opens To The Public

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25 pointskareemm15 comments

I'd like to clarify the following quote from the article: "Ipredator is currently using the same platform as several other VPN franchises including Relakks, which means it’s not really anything we haven’t seen before."

The term "platform" is pretty ambiguous, right? Is it the same PPTP server software? Is it the same management webapp? In this case, it's actually the same software, servers, bandwidth, and owners. I had a chance to poke around during the closed beta last year and this is literally just a re-skin of Relakks. Their logging policies, connection locality, and (unfortunately) speed and reliability numbers are one and the same.

In short, there's some hype because this is tied to TPB, but the article gets it quite right: its nothing we haven't seen before.

The difference is that they have a track record which makes it seem very likely that when someone subpoenas them for the identity associated with a particular ongoing network activity, they will tell the plaintiffs to go fuck themselves.

Which makes this the only VPN I'd trust. I'd also trust them to take adequate security so, if they're seized, nothing is revealed.

Gotta love TPB. Protecting your identity since... when did they start? Since they started.

From their FAQ->Security page: "For security reasons Ipredator do not use any American software neither for encryption nor for any other part (we anticipate that most users will in spite of that use an American OS), but there is noting stopping an advanced user from accessing Ipredator with a more secure operating system or use a specific VPN-client." I don't think I've seen a call to use linux worded like this before..

Our service https://ConnectionVPN.com uses OpenVPN (SSL 2048 bits, much more secure than ipredator's PPTP). We are a Greek company with gateways in Luxembourg and the US (with more countries on the way). Recommanded by CNET and the NY Times : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/technology/internet/16vpn....

I see you're mentioned in that article, but I don't see anything about a recommendation.

Wrong wording, sorry. "As seen on"...

I think their name choice is a bit unfortunate.

It's a pun with the official "Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED)" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPRED

Since it's from TPB, it's probably intentionally offensive.

TPB is ideological, lampooning fear mongering politicians and media titans with brilliant satire.

Anyone aware of any legal issues with using this service in the United States?

I don't recall any, but I'm not really very up to date on the legal issues involving encryption and/or VPNs.

Don't know the legal issues but I do know it'd make your connection very slow. Between encryption and sending every packet through Sweden, it would probably not be worth the extra privacy benefit.

I can confirm, I've been beta testing the ipredator for a while and it's really slow.

What about performance? Is it going to be as slow as other VPN services?

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