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Free Open Source VPN – Curve25519,ChaCha20 – WireGuard and OpenVPN

openinternetaccess.com

7 pointsAtmaBhava15 comments

Image logos weirdly stretched on landing page, header links reflowing strangely, same company also runs a "vanity crypto address" to "advertise your brand"?

And providing free vpn services?

Yeah, that's not sketchy _at all_....

from the site:

> "Totally Free. No Strings Attached."

read as "avoid at all costs"

edit: oh boy, check out their "privacy policy" page. oh dear.

https://openinternetaccess.com/privacy-policy.txt

What's wrong with their privacy policy? It's clear and easy to understand for anyone.

Agreed. It is the long, complex privacy policies that should make you question things.

OpenVPN and WireGuard config pages download each other's configs.

Also, keys are invalidated weekly and behind a CAPTCHA, so good luck automating the process of getting new keys weekly.

Could be automated by using a captcha service, I think just a few pennies per thousand of verifications.

People should be highly skeptical of "free" VPN and proxy services. They have the power to (easily) MITM you.

Absolutely, that's why I recommend only using OpenInternetAccess

Citation Needed

If you are really paranoid, then why not use their Tor VPN?

how so? they can track where i am connecting to, but that's about it.

They can intercept DNS, they can snoop on cert names, they can monitor any unencrypted traffic (you'd be surprised how much there is even when you think you're hitting every site with HTTPS..)

That's also true, especially in the case of end-to-end asymmetrical encryption such as SSL.

Vancouver, WA, United States...

I guess that is where the Vanwa comes from in their name.

Who are these people?

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