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<blockquote data-quote="windscribe" data-source="post: 952760" data-attributes="member: 58131">That&#039;s just marketing. See <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/vpn-firm-private-internet-access-exits-russia-due-to-spy-law/" target="_blank">Major VPN firm pulls out of Russia, blames country’s new spy law</a>“We believe that due to the enforcement regime surrounding this new law, some of our Russian Servers (RU) were recently seized by Russian Authorities, without notice or any type of due process,” Private Internet Access said in a <a href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/21779/we-are-removing-our-russian-presence" target="_blank">blog post</a> on Monday. &quot;Upon learning of the [seizure], we immediately discontinued our Russian gateways and will no longer be doing business in the region.&quot;Then it goes:The move has nevertheless prompted a &quot;preventative&quot; security update, which will see Private Internet Access rotate its certificates. &quot;Furthermore,&quot; it said, &quot;we’re updating our client applications with improved security measures to mitigate circumstances like this in the future, on top of what is already in place.There is only 1 reason to rotate your certificates after your servers were seized in Russia - breach. They masked it as a&nbsp; &quot;preventative security update&quot;. We were never approached by Roskomnadzor, the Russian servers are encrypted, and have unique certs and keys. If they get taken, we don&#039;t really care.&nbsp; This should have been in place in Ukraine as well, but it was not, which is our mistake.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="windscribe, post: 952760, member: 58131"] That's just marketing. See [URL="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/vpn-firm-private-internet-access-exits-russia-due-to-spy-law/"]Major VPN firm pulls out of Russia, blames country’s new spy law[/URL] [INDENT]“We believe that due to the enforcement regime surrounding this new law, some of our Russian Servers (RU) were recently seized by Russian Authorities, without notice or any type of due process,” Private Internet Access said in a [URL='https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/21779/we-are-removing-our-russian-presence']blog post[/URL] on Monday. "Upon learning of the [seizure], we immediately discontinued our Russian gateways and will no longer be doing business in the region."[/INDENT] Then it goes: [INDENT]The move has nevertheless prompted a "preventative" security update, which will see Private Internet Access rotate its certificates. "Furthermore," it said, "we’re updating our client applications with improved security measures to mitigate circumstances like this in the future, on top of what is already in place.[/INDENT] There is only 1 reason to rotate your certificates after your servers were seized in Russia - breach. They masked it as a "preventative security update". We were never approached by Roskomnadzor, the Russian servers are encrypted, and have unique certs and keys. If they get taken, we don't really care. This should have been in place in Ukraine as well, but it was not, which is our mistake. [/QUOTE]

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