{"id":12136,"date":"2019-12-17T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=12136"},"modified":"2024-01-25T23:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T07:53:32","slug":"dont-trust-verify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/dont-trust-verify\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Trust. Verify."},"content":{"rendered":"

The VPN industry looks just like the world of religion \u2013 everyone has their different beliefs on who to trust. However, even the <\/span>diamond in the rough<\/span><\/i> lied to the princess. Is it really possible to blindly trust a person or entity without getting hurt in the end?<\/span><\/p>\n

Those of you who say yes, lucky you. For the rest of us mortals, I think the answer is, \u201cno.\u201d For anything you cannot verify, as Peter and Miles said, it\u2019s a <\/span>leap of faith<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, when it comes to privacy and for the many out there whose lives would be put at risk if they do not have privacy, like journalists and dissidents, faith simply isn\u2019t enough; especially, not faith in a mortal.<\/span><\/p>\n

And we\u2019re no exception. We don\u2019t want you to blindly \u201cbelieve\u201d in us.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

I Can Show You Our World <\/b>\u266a<\/b><\/h3>\n

We encourage everyone NOT to trust, but instead, to verify. In order to deliver a verifiably secure infrastructure and ecosystem, we are embarking on a journey which will lead us to a fully verifiable infrastructure to our community; this will require a number of steps which we will share with you as we progress starting with the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Open Sourcing the PIA Clients, Starting with the Desktop Client<\/a> \u2013 Your machine is your private space. You deserve to know what you\u2019re putting on it, and what it\u2019s doing. With the open sourcing of our clients, you can now verify what you\u2019re installing. Please check it out!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Verifiable Zero Access: Start! \u2013 We\u2019re building an internal roadmap to create a transparent and verifiable infrastructure<\/span>,<\/span> in which no one, including ourselves, is permitted access to the servers through which VPN traffic flows<\/span>. We will keep you abreast of all progress, and moreover, this will be a community-led effort.\u00a0 Verifiable Zero Access proves that we cannot log or monitor your traffic.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Random Audited Truths (I smell a rat!) \u2013 We have begun reaching out to external auditors and, in tandem, are opening up our operations to review by our users. This allows you to verify with your own eyes, whenever you want.\u00a0 WYSIWYG.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Follow this space for continuing updates on our progress; we believe it is a revolutionary change in the making.<\/span><\/p>\n

    We don\u2019t want you to blindly trust us, <\/span>so now you can verify.<\/b><\/p>\n

    We aren\u2019t Aladdin. We are the genie who serves you, and Aladdin didn\u2019t trust the genie. He got out of the <\/span>cave of wonder<\/span><\/i> and verified.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Don\u2019t trust. Verify.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Introducing the only verified and verifiable VPN service in the world, <\/span>Private Internet Access<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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