The service I’m using removed its Russian endpoints shortly after the Ukraine conflict broke out.

I neither know nor care if they did so of their own volition or were forced to do so: either reason is a huge red flag NATO flag against being able to trust them.

  • Arsen6331 ☭
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    52 years ago

    Well, you could verify that the implementation isn’t bugged because your package manager will get it from a repo where it is verified cryptographically, and you get to set that repo, but it very well may be logging everything.

    • Marxism-Fennekinism
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      The issue is, how do you verify that on someone else’s server? Everything the server reports to you can be adulterated. If you were running your own VPN server, it’d be fine, and possibly even more preferable than commercial VPNs for some use cases.

      • Arsen6331 ☭
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        52 years ago

        Oh, that’s what you meant. Yeah, that would be a problem. You’d need to make sure you only use encrypted protocols like HTTPS and SSH to mitigate that.

      • @holdengreen
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        32 years ago

        My openvpn’s broke. Maybe related to getting VZN 5g home internet…