• Fuck_u_spez_@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 months ago

    I agree. PIA is the only one I actually paid for and the one I’ve used the least. They’re only still on the list because I bought a 5 year block of time over 4 years ago when they had some big black Friday deal, so their app will soon be uninstalled. The rest are free or trials that I’ve been evaluating for performance. Thanks for the article, though.

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      10 months ago

      I was in the same boat as you, I bought it before they sold out… But obviously you can’t return it at that point

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        10 months ago

        A friend and former colleague in the IT industry recommended them to me so I gave some extra weight to his opinion. Then he lost like ten grand USD in Bitcoin because he left a (default) port forwarded to a VNC server in his house, open to the public and only protected by a known compromised password… and after that I stopped listening to anything he had to say about security.

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          10 months ago

          I’m suspicious of anyone overconfident like that. The pen-testers I know love to make examples of them.