Egyptians forced to use a VPN to access encrypted messaging app Signal
Encrypted messaging just took a blow in Egypt. Since this past weekend, many internet users with an Egyptian IP address are no longer able to send or receive messages or…
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Private Internet Access funds OpenVPN 2.4 audit by noted cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green
Private Internet Access is happy to announce that an OpenVPN 2.4 audit is going to be completed by noted cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Information…
Private Internet Access VPN response to Investigatory Powers Act
The United Kingdom has passed a draconian mass surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act (IP Act), which will force the collection of UK internet connection records for a whole year.…
Tired of people circumventing social media blocks, Turkey calls for VPN ban
As of a few hours ago, there's a new VPN ban in Turkey. Turkey's Information and Communication Technologies Authority has issued an order to Turkish Internet service providers (ISPs) telling them…
Use a VPN to bypass the VoIP ban in the UAE and you could get fined up to $544k
The vast number of United Arab Emirates (UAE) residents that use a VPN to bypass the VoIP ban could soon be in incredibly hot water. The VoIP ban means that…
Check out Fast.com, a new speed test for your VPN gateway
How well does PIA work with Netflix’s Fast.com, the newest competitor to Speedtest.net? Notably, Fast.com runs a faster test than Speedtest does, this is because Fast.com only checks your download speed…
What is Netflix thinking, blocking VPN traffic?
So Netflix has banned people using VPNs in Europe from accessing their service. This move can be kindly described as "moronic", for a variety of reasons. To start off, we're…
Norway’s Censorship Of The Pirate Bay Yet Another Uptick For VPNs And Alternate DNS
A Norwegian district court has seen it fit to order censorship of The Pirate Bay and other sites that are sometimes used to violate the entertainment distribution monopoly we know…
Once Again, The Old World Doesn’t Understand That Unrestriction Is Just A VPN Away
Four pieces of news in the past week show just how little the lawmakers and courts continue to understand of the Internet: Australia introduced Data Retention, Spain ordered The Pirate…
The Pirate Bay Returns And China Filters VPNs
Two unrelated things coincide: The return of The Pirate Bay on one hand, and China banning VPNs on the other - actually, not banning them per se, but aggressively filtering…