- May 26, 2014
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How is NordVPN unblocking Disney+? It might be through YOUR own computer. Even if you’ve never used Disney+ or NordVPN.
NordVPN, a company reeling from careless security practices revealed as part of a security breach (one that they covered up for 6 months until they were finally outed for it), had promised to do better.
From the NordVPN blog:
What I’m about to tell you is distressing, and reveals the true nature of NordVPN’s business practices.
Tesonet and Oxylabs
See the problem is, NordVPN is linked closely with a Lithuanian data mining company called Tesonet. NordVPN is said to be one of Tesonet’s projects, Oxylabs.io is another one.
So what’s the big deal? Oxylabs.io advertises on its website “32M+ residential proxies…100% anonymous proxies from all over the globe with zero IP blocking.” Think of “residential proxies” this way: 1.) Oxylabs installs some malware on to a user’s device, unknown to the user, by bundling it with other software that the user downloads. 2.)This malware enables Oxylabs to sell off your bandwidth, your computing power, and your IP address to third parties, who will route their internet traffic through your device.
Does that mean your device can be used by a third party to access child porn or hack into a bank? Absolutely! Another VPN provider named Hola was called out for reselling users’ bandwidth in this way through their B2B service (Luminati), and incidentally Hola is suing Tesonet for copying Hola’s technology.
NordVPN has gone out of their way to downplay their ties to Oxylabs and Tesonet. After all, they couldn’t possibly be incorporating any part of Oxylabs technology into NordVPN’s apps…
Full article:
medium.com
NordVPN, a company reeling from careless security practices revealed as part of a security breach (one that they covered up for 6 months until they were finally outed for it), had promised to do better.
From the NordVPN blog:
That surely sounds nice, but is it true?
What I’m about to tell you is distressing, and reveals the true nature of NordVPN’s business practices.
Tesonet and Oxylabs
See the problem is, NordVPN is linked closely with a Lithuanian data mining company called Tesonet. NordVPN is said to be one of Tesonet’s projects, Oxylabs.io is another one.
So what’s the big deal? Oxylabs.io advertises on its website “32M+ residential proxies…100% anonymous proxies from all over the globe with zero IP blocking.” Think of “residential proxies” this way: 1.) Oxylabs installs some malware on to a user’s device, unknown to the user, by bundling it with other software that the user downloads. 2.)This malware enables Oxylabs to sell off your bandwidth, your computing power, and your IP address to third parties, who will route their internet traffic through your device.
Does that mean your device can be used by a third party to access child porn or hack into a bank? Absolutely! Another VPN provider named Hola was called out for reselling users’ bandwidth in this way through their B2B service (Luminati), and incidentally Hola is suing Tesonet for copying Hola’s technology.
NordVPN has gone out of their way to downplay their ties to Oxylabs and Tesonet. After all, they couldn’t possibly be incorporating any part of Oxylabs technology into NordVPN’s apps…
Full article:
How is NordVPN unblocking Disney+?
NordVPN, a company reeling from careless security practices revealed as part of a security breach (one that they covered up for 6 months…
medium.com
