Hacker News: 01CGAT

New comment by 01CGAT in "Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform"

01CGAT — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 10:50:09 +0000

The technology used for this is the same as for locating your lost device and takes care of privacy in a very smart way, more info: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet...

"Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple."

New comment by 01CGAT in "Unpatched iOS bug blocks VPNs from encrypting all traffic"

01CGAT — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:43:56 +0000

Visiting the website through WifiMask VPN (using Digital Ocean servers) works fine.

New comment by 01CGAT in "Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect user data"

01CGAT — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:28:05 +0000

For WifiMask VPN I use the following to block ads & malware: https://github.com/Trellmor/bind-adblock

New comment by 01CGAT in "Sensor Tower owns ad blocker and VPN apps that collect user data"

01CGAT — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:21:23 +0000

A snippet from the article on the residential IP's:

"Furthermore, we conducted realtime device fingerprinting when we captured each IP address. And we have successfully identified the device type and vendor information for 547,497 IP addresses. What surprised us is that 237,029 of them turned out to be IoT systems, such as web camera, DVR, and printer."

New comment by 01CGAT in "Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (2006)"

01CGAT — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:39:51 +0000

This was probably the beginning of the end of Facebook, at least for me. I started interacting with Facebook much less and started to forget about it, because I didn't want everybody to see how addicted I was to Facebook. The same happened with Instagram when everybody was able to see what I was liking. This is turned off now, but the damage was already done, I became too paranoid to get addicted to social media again. I'm clean now for almost 2 years, thank you.

New comment by 01CGAT in "Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests"

01CGAT — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 10:55:13 +0000

It's easier because the current tools of building the planes are not made for this new type of planes. Update the tools and building this new type of plane will be easy too.

New comment by 01CGAT in "BlackRock’s decision to dump coal signals what’s next"

01CGAT — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:28:14 +0000

2016: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-14/norway-s-...

New comment by 01CGAT in "Lies vs. Statistics: VPN Virtual Server Locations"

01CGAT — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:14:59 +0000

Founder of WifiMask VPN here. Maybe you want to try it with a free trial for 7 days :-) : wifimask.com.

New comment by 01CGAT in "A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)"

01CGAT — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 02:09:01 +0000

Maybe OpenVPN + UDPspeeder could do something:

https://github.com/wangyu-/UDPspeeder

New comment by 01CGAT in "A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)"

01CGAT — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 02:05:22 +0000

FTR, they say: "As you can see, the ascp client performs over 200x faster than FTP, and can download the whole file in 9 seconds. It’s pretty magical." But the example shows MB/s vs Mb/s. It's not over 200x times faster, but about 17 times faster.

New comment by 01CGAT in "Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands"

01CGAT — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:32:54 +0000

To maybe better answer this question, I've found this for example: https://gist.github.com/hcooper/814247

New comment by 01CGAT in "Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands"

01CGAT — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:31:18 +0000

To answer this question: yes, OpenVPN can handle multiple users/connections simultaneously.

New comment by 01CGAT in "Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands"

01CGAT — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:19:46 +0000

You could generate a certificate for each user, but without the duplicate-cn option a user is only allowed 1 connection to the same server. You can also use username/password authentication instead of certificates, also in this case you'll need to set the duplicate-cn option to allow multiple connections from the same user to the same server, because in this case you use the option username-as-common-name and the CN (common name) will then be the username.

New comment by 01CGAT in "Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands"

01CGAT — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 17:46:58 +0000

OpenVPN has the duplicate-cn option available, two connections with the same common name are then allowed.

New comment by 01CGAT in "Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands"

01CGAT — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:47:40 +0000

Using a database for user authentication, you could write a script to fill the database with some usernames and passwords. Or create a webfrontend for users to register their own usernames and passwords.

New comment by 01CGAT in "Jennicam: The first woman to stream her life on the internet (2016)"

01CGAT — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:37:06 +0000

Some television programs are: https://www.utopiatv.nl/live

New comment by 01CGAT in "Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands"

01CGAT — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 16:24:27 +0000

May I suggest to turn off logging for your own server too? :-) Anyone with physical access to the server can access the logs, maybe even when the disks are encrypted, I can imagine someone with the right knowledge can extract the key from RAM on a running server:

https://blog.appsecco.com/breaking-full-disk-encryption-from...

New comment by 01CGAT in "Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands"

01CGAT — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 16:07:05 +0000

These are a very interesting questions and invite to write more about in detail, which makes me think to write blog articles about it. Stay tuned! ;-)

New comment by 01CGAT in "Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands"

01CGAT — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:59:44 +0000

Haha, thanks!

New comment by 01CGAT in "Show HN: A small bootstrapped independent VPN company in the Netherlands"

01CGAT — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:58:50 +0000

We are very flexible, if DO isn't the best choice anymore for our demands, we will look around for other options.