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But that has not happened since PIA was acquired by Kape. All that proves is that the previous owner was trustworthy.

But, that happened since they were acquired by Kape. All that proves is the previous owner was trustworthy.

I believe we are only scratching the surface of our history.

Is anyone really surprised?

This is amazing The rise of the AI generated em dash is insane.

They just announced they are killing meshnet

This is absurd. I would never buy a vehicle like that.

For sure. Pictures certainly have their place on the web. I was speaking more about websites where the entire design is made of images, even when it doesn’t make any sense to do so.

Meta puts money over minors.

It really makes you wonder what other weapons they have that we don't know about.

It makes sense. All of the streaming services have exclusive rights to certain shows in addition to their own shows, so you have to subscribe to every service out there to see everything, whereas you used to just need 1 cable subscription for it all.

Agreed. 99% of the websites out there today are so loaded with images and videos that they would've taken 25 minutes to open on dial up.

This is a complete game changer!

Andrew Lee sold Private Internet Access in 2019 and has nothing to do with them anymore. Likewise, PIA has nothing to do with Freenode.

Andrew Lee sold Private Internet Access in 2019 and has nothing to do with them anymore. Likewise, PIA has nothing to do with Freenode.

> - When they merged with Kape Technologies (resulting in the ludicrous situation of having Mark Karpelès as their CTO) I lost all faith in them and immediately switched to Mullvad.

This is not true. Mark was hired by London Trust Media and never worked for PIA. Since Kape acquired PIA in December of 2019, there is no connection at all between Mark and PIA.

Private Internet Access has no connection to Freenode at all anymore. It WAS owned by London Trust Media, which also owned PIA, but Kape acquired PIA in December of 2019 and has had no connection since then. We do not have any involvement or knowledge of any takeover of Freenode.

Private Internet Access has no connection to Freenode at all anymore. It WAS owned by London Trust Media, which also owned PIA, however Kape Technologies acquired PIA in December of 2019 and has had no connection since then. We do not have any involvement or knowledge of any takeover of Freenode.

Fixed! Thanks for the heads up :)

Unfortunately it is too early to commit to a date yet, but we are working hard to get it ready for "prime time" as soon as possible.

Chris Miller, CMO for Private Internet Access here. You are correct, we were extremely fortunate to be able to work directly with Jason Donenfeld on our implementation. We wanted to have the most seamless integration we possibly could, and who better to help than the developer himself?

Tracking when you load bookmarks, open new tabs, save a password and login, take a screenshot or download media, is not harmless basic telemetry imho.

Exactly. On the Firefox home page, it start off: "Get the latest Firefox browser. Automatic privacy is here."

However, I think this makes it clear that privacy is not automatic by default.

I can understand how you would feel that way if Mark was hired as the CTO of PIA, but as we stated before, he never had any operational role or access to anything at PIA.

My name is Chris M and I am the CMO for Private Internet Access.

PIA management has prepared the following statement regarding Mark Karpeles’s role at LTMH and we hope it addresses your doubts or concerns:

In 2018, Mark Karpeles was appointed CTO of LTMH, which was the parent company of Private Internet Access prior to KAPE. However, Mark never had an operational role in PIA and subsequently never had access to any part of the PIA infrastructure nor any role in the planning or execution of the day-to-day operations of PIA.

The role of CTO at PIA has been run collectively by Tommie P. (SvP Software, joined January 2017) handling the software development side and Gaurav G. (CIO, joined January 2015) handling the operational and infrastructure side of the business.

Mark’s role at LTMH has predominantly been to manage development teams working on FutureFC, general R&D, and providing a broader perspective of the industry as a whole rather than PIA specific issues. His work is best summarized as a valued external consultant for specific discussions related to the advancement of our privacy and security efforts.

As part of the merger with KAPE to become Private Internet, Mark currently has no operational role in the merged entity and is pursuing other endeavors.

Let's not forget how Cloudflare got started...

The Department of Homeland Security offered to buy the data from Project Honeypot (run by Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway), and they sold it to them for $20,000. Michele Zatlyn (a classmate of Prince) said "if they'll pay for it, other people will pay for it."

"And so the idea for Cloudflare was born, with Ms Zatlyn as its third co-founder." [with Prince and Holloway]

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37348016