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New comment by ggeek in "2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map"

ggeek — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 15:52:56 +0000

Since you are the author of the map, it would be nice to also include the Windscribe relationship with Rescloud, which is one of their current residential ips providers whose CEO was cofounder of WeVPN.

New comment by ggeek in "WeVPN Is Shutting Down"

ggeek — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:22:16 +0000

I think nobody complained about the gesture to provide customers with at least access to a reliable VPN. WindScribe is a pretty good product, but they can't just break their own privacy policy with the excuse that someone could lose their money or no access due to the restrictions in their country. They have the whole customer email list if they have the hashes and nobody neither Wevpn or Windscribe asked the customer if they wanted to be migrated and grant the data access. Someone who purchase a VPN service is looking for data privacy, not only to bypass region restrictions.

New comment by ggeek in "WeVPN Is Shutting Down"

ggeek — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:43:03 +0000

If we believe the Windscribe words about only having hashes and an encryption key to compare, an email hash is still an unique identifier and may still break the GPDR policy depending of your country/state. Most emails hashes will be pretty weak to crack even with a 10 years old GPU and a few data sets. john.doe1990@gmail.com hash can be cracked in a matter of minutes although i guess j0h7jkajsdb@gmail.com is safe. It is pretty sad to see that a company like Windscribe and Yegor that has been blaming the VPN industry shady behaviours for years are now part of the gear by trying to hide a possible private agreement with a signed NDA to not make it public and turn it into a good samaritan offer. There was many ways to help all those customers that ended up without service, but this is probably one of the worst ones. Unfortunately we will never know what really happened since there was zero transparency with the WeVPN customers.