IP Leak Vulnerability in Port Forwarding Feature
Dear Customers,
Last week, we, along with several other VPN providers, were notified of an IP address leak vulnerability when the port forwarding feature (disabled by default) is used. We deployed a fix quickly after the initial report, however, earlier today, we discovered some edge cases where our fix is incomplete.
We are in the process of deploying an improved fix on all of our VPN gateways as well as releasing new clients. We will update this thread when the fix has been deployed and new client installers are available.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Please be assured that we take privacy very seriously and will be notifying all of our customers of what happened and any steps they need to take.
Note: We have now published new client installers, please visit https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/19317/new-mac-windows-clients-v-52-released for more information, or download updated installers from our website.
Sincerely,
PIA
Comments
PIA please do something about this robert_lazaar, along with his fellow harassers in crime, sock puppet personalities MahmoudAbdul, TiffanyNichols, Marco_Wollank, DerekZimmer and perhaps others. If you check their comments you'll find that many of them are utterly insane. By your complete lack of regard for how they habitually harass other PIA member like me they're serving to destroy PIA's credibility. Anytime someone posts legitimate concerns or complaints one or more of them shouts it down. They're even posting in the comment section of torrentfreak. They're making PIA look absolutely terrible. For your own sakes you really need to do something about them.
By the time this is all over I think they should give you a comparable reward too. Oh, wait! We know that will never happen. PIA only did so with Perfect Privacy for marketing hype reasons. They'd never get any mileage out of paying you. All you've done is brought them embarrassment. Just know that the rest of us are very grateful for your efforts.
2) I have no other forum aliases on this PIA forum that I have ever used. Feel free now to call me a liar, as you so reflexively resort to. I could care less.
The behavior and tactics of you and your buddies robert_lazar, MahmoudAbdul, Marco_Wollank, etc. bear striking resemblance to those of Scientologists. Needless to say I can't help but wonder if ya'll are current or former Scientologists. That would explain everything.
I once had a friend who'd been very high in the rank of the Scientology cult, actually working in the Sea Org. He'd been a Scientologist for many years, but after enduring a great deal of psychological and even physical abuse he finally came to his senses and escaped. Tragically to this day he still can sometimes act very much like a Scientologist, with all its associated pathologies. As a result of that I had to end our friendship. You and your cultish buddies remind me very much of him and the few other Scientologists I've run across.
I recommend you watch the HBO special "Going Clear." If you're the least bit introspective you'll see some of yourself in it. I'd also recommend the BBC Panorama report on Scientology. In it you'll discover that Scientologists use the same psychological warfare tactics of projection, button pushing, and shouting down their opposition that you and your buddies do. I hope someday you and your pals free yourself from the cultish pathology that so clearly enslaves you, just as so many thousands of Scientologists have freed themselves from the mind-control cult of Scientology.
Mhttps://www.privateinternetaccess.com/installer/download_installer_win
hopefully it's solved
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No i didn't copy and paste anything, that was me who done the testing, you should message Support - they will tell you who it was. You really just made yourself look like a complete fool undermining a serious security hole.
As far as PIA, I've been using it over a year and have been satisfied with it other than slow speeds sometimes (but that's going to happen using any vpn). PIA did say other VPNs were affected by this and not just them so this was not specific to only PIA. They notified everyone and got it fixed. Myself I'm not making it a big deal but I see apparently some are. If some don't like it they are always free to move to something else. If I didn't like it, I would (I'm not going to continue paying money for something I'm not satisfied with). That's my cent and a half and no I don't use any other forum names here (or use multiple forum names in any other forums I frequent for that matter).
If I understand correctly, this security issue does not affect me as Port Forwarding is not enabled in my PIA settings, which is a big relief.
Secondly, coming to these forums to try to understand what risk I may have been exposed to, has been a disappointing experience due to the attitudes of some of the people here. I don't know what people hope to achieve with their "This product is perfect! Everyone who points out a serious flaw is just a hater and should shut up!" attitudes. It's people like this who put themselves and everyone else at extra risk. It is beyond me why anyone who cares enough to get a VPN would then be so stupid as to stand in the way of a serious issue being identified and rectified. Instant loss of all credibility by those people.
Thank you PIA for achieving the right outcome in the end. Hopefully next time you'll be more thorough before announcing "Problem Solved"