Governemnts across the worlds have been doing to undermine people's privacy through the ages and things have been getting worse over time. Even what the people are doing to protect themselves could come back to bite them in the rear. I have been seeing many ads and promotion efforts by NordVPN and many others with extremely aggressive sales tactics and discounts of over 60% off which are clearly designed to manipulate unsophisticated customers. NordVPN isn't the only one doing it but they are certainly the worst.

NordVPN Got Hacked

Just like nearly every large virtual private network (VPN) company, Nord rents server space from third-party data centers around the world. An unknown attacker got root access to a single Nord server in Finland because that data center left its own server management system insecure. The attacker got ahold of some security certificates that, when combined with a bit of chicanery, hypothetically could have been used to create a fake Nord server until they expired.

In its public statement, Nord said the breach happened in March 2018, but that Nord only found out about it "a few months ago." The company's reaction to the news at the time was to immediately terminate its contract with the data center, and silently set about auditing every single one of its 5,000 servers for any similar risks.

Classic Case of too Much Marketing - Not Enough Product

This is a warning to everyone who goes after what is popularly promoted by websites and influences without looking at the technical aspects or even consider to use their common sense figure out how the hell they get this aggressive with marketing while providing "Best Deals" in the market in terms of price.

Freedom of The Press Foundation Recommends

• Mullvad (used by Mozilla VPN)
• TunnelBear
• VyprVPN
• IVPN
• ProtonVPN

Authentication SHA256
Handshake RSA 4096 or at least RSA 2048
Data Encryption AES-256-GCM or AES-256-CBC

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Personally I have a considerable level of trust in ProtonVPN thanks to my extremely good impressions of using ProtonMail. I also have a lot of respect for Mozilla despite them being heavily funded by Alphabet Inc. None of the companies above have aggressive marketing and they still charge higher prices than most of the heavily marketed VPN products.

Even End To End Encryption is Under Threat

Things are not going well and even multi billion dollar companies cannot compete against multi trillion dollar governments that people are stupidly happy to support. Encryption has managed to stay without being turned into a criminal offense so far. But if we don't support the spread of tools that use end to end encryption whether it is Telegram, ProtonMail, ZCash or any other privacy related product, we are at the risk of having to live in a world where privacy will be a privilege that has to be licensed by government.