Securing your internet connection

Salutations MadScientist,

Stapples advertises “Avast HMA! Pro VPN for Unlimited Devices”, but at 39.99 $/yr (CAD) that sounds too good to be true.

It depends what the objectives are. Maybe it’s all about preparing a symbolical petri dish for some vast experiment…

Good day, have fun!! :peace:

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They say the power of focus and ability to believe goes a long way, people call it faith…

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3 years using private internet access, had 3 days down in that time (less than an hour each) and it maxes out above my 120Mbps (15MB/s) connection.
they say its 1Gbps but cant comment on that.
Works on Linux no problems, kill switch and filtering
Never have issues with streaming but only use Kodi havent tried netflix etc in years

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Hi again,

Actually faith inspired me this slogan:

« It has happened before, just not yet! »

:peace:

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

I get it man!

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Do you people use VPN when you post/visit on cannabis sites and forums? Or am I being paranoid?

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No but I probably should. All I have is my phone, no computer or wifi, so VPNs slow me down to unbearable internet speeds. Worse then dial up most of the time.

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the gov will find a way to stop seed tradng they want low thc%

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Good luck with that, they cant stop it now…

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I agree. Impossible.

Not a bad idea, that’s for sure.

Ironically, I have a 3 year deal with NordVPN and I don’t even use it for weed sites. I am simply no longer worried about it because we are a few months from legalization and there are “illegal” dispensaries all over the place.

I’m pretty happy with the NordVPN service, by the way. Fast, easy, discrete.

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I used to have PIA (Private Internet Access) didn’t like them.

Recently I switched to Cyber Ghost. Excellent company, good interface lots of connections
and cheap $2.75 a month.

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kali should work for yuh

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A post was split to a new topic: Malware detected on seedbank webpage

Anyone use tunnel bear?

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You have to really trust your provider if you want to sign up.

Also how can you trust these providers that require you to install their developed clients, which often have vulnerabilities like with their update mechanisms in the software being able to be compromised and allow delivery of something executable on your system.

With my career history, running anything “no log” is absurd from a system administration perspective. You have to log things, its just how long do you retain that information. It sounds great however for sales/marketing to say “no logging!” even if the tech side of the company isn’t really living up to that promise. I can almost guarantee you can’t tell the difference if your VPN provider was logging or not let alone your connection going through their service isn’t being monitored. Don’t say the x amount of bit encryption protects you - the VPN provider issued the keys.

I mean cough cough and now you wonder why they pushed so hard on YouTube.

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Didn’t want to open a thread, hope it is not off topic, just noticed this today and don’t now how could it happen being a HTTPS … icon_e_confused|nullxnull

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Could have had a misconfigured certificate at some point. Or your system clock could be out of date.

Looks good from my end:

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It sometimes happen when user inserts a link to externally hosted image that is not secured correctly by SSL. These images are still displayed inline in post by default.

That is also why I recommend to upload images directly to our server, then it won’t display any warning or posses a risk to our visitors. (However the only risk is that “attacker” can see what external images you are displaying).

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Thanks for the quick reply, it seems quite reasonable although there were no images in that post, maybe I had another thread open, too much to read … :sweat_smile:

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