New Update Proton VPN for Windows

[Sorrento]

Having used Proton VPN since December 19 I have not had any reason to remove it or use any other VPN & I've used most of them - To have a VPN on for a month & a half is truly a record for me (no exaggeration) - it's consistently fast usually just a few meg off no VPN speed & is trouble free - Love it

 

[Zero Knowledge]

But you can not prove that is the case. The only way you can prove that is through analyzing court records.

And then back to my point, how do you know the Vpn server/Vpn provider is not compromised?

You would have to assume they have some way of intercepting encrypted Vpn traffic, whether that's by owning servers or compromising Vpn providers infrastructure.

Otherwise Vpn's would be in the news all day like E2EE with authorities arguing they need access and that they are going dark and that they want back doors.

Or it could be that they don't care about Vpn traffic, basically torrents and fraud? Not exactly national security material. Or maybe there is just so much Vpn traffic that they have given up?

 

[Digmor Crusher]

If a VPN gets hit with a warrant wouldn't they have to comply? The only way around it is to not keep any records, even if they had encrypted records the authorities would ask for them to try to decrypt or try to do it themselves. No??

 

[Victor M]

Yes, a vpn operator has to comply with local laws. If the gov asks for records, they would have to hand over them. But if they have thrown away the decryption keys, then there is nothing much a gov can do. The vpn operator would not be foolish enough to use home baked encryption but would have relied on known cryptography which has been peer reviewed by academics to be unbreakable. I would tend to trust academics, until they are bribed or blackmailed.

 

[n8chavez]

Correct. That's why a good VPN will be independently audited to verify that it in fact keeps no logs

 

[silversurfer]

Proton VPN for Windows 3.5.3

• We've addressed an issue that caused the app to freeze for some users.

Release 3.5.3 · ProtonVPN/win-app

We've addressed an issue that caused the app to freeze for some users.

github.com

 

[Zero Knowledge]

Correct. That's why a good VPN will be independently audited to verify that it in fact keeps no logs

Yes but the men in black know this, which is why they attack the endpoint or hardware. Why bother breaking encryption when you can easily just infect the target? This is why they never mention Vpn's when they complain about 'going dark', they have no trouble pwning the endpoint and never have, whether it's a phone, PC, or router/firewall, it's faster & easier than messing about with breaking encryption algorithms..

 

[Victor M]

ProtonVPN just added a new set of servers for the Free users in Romania.