โšก๏ธ๐Ÿšจ NEW - Law enforcement from 27 countries seized the First VPN Service, also known as 1VPNS, in Operation Saffron. A total of 33 servers associated with the infrastructure were taken down. The service provided various VPN configurations, including single, double, and multi-hop options, and was reportedly used by cybercriminals. The official website now displays a law enforcement takeover banner. A press release detailing the operation is expected soon.

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Every vpn is used by "cybercriminals" who post "illegal memes" - that's exactly why noone will belive authorities now. Mixing real crimes with memes and FB posts - not the best idea, is it? Also the internet is used by criminals, and oh, you wil blackout when i drop it: kitchen knives are used by criminals!!!!1111oneoneoneoen
This is one world government hard at work to protect you. Your VPN provider is a centralised third party. It will get taken down without justification of necessary. Criminals? At this point they used this word so often I have doubts real criminals even exist outside of their Mafia structures.
VPS, Meshnets, Nowhere, and hidden communication within public internet traffic. I see this as a way forward to deanonymise Monero node operators. It's time to improve speeds on i2p and Tor for it to be ready when VPN protection fails. As a VPN provider (Mullvad) I'd now seek to exit those 27 countries before it is too late.
Bycicles are used by criminals, too and condoms and mobile phones and fridges. You either ban it all or you are exposing your ulterior motives. In today's world you either live naked under a tree or you are a criminal. LE should really proof their virginity.
All vpn providers should now put GPG keys and canaries on their sites, "just in case". And I spinned up two new snowflake proxies because of this vpn event. Everyone should do even a small thing every time such thing happens.
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matevz 3 weeks ago
Also they should run VPNs inside TEEs with memory and storage encryption. This way no one is able to sniff the traffic. Something like Oasis ROFLs...
so, since they have not found a way to regulate them, they are going to close all the servers that are in each country using the excuse that criminals used it?
only knowing that Spain, Ukraine, France and Belgium are one of the countries that collaborated in this, shows what their true intentions are.
That's sad. We are ready for this fight. Hopefully it does not get to that. We have some BCP plans for the escalation of tyranny. We do need more subscribers to roll it out.
Use dVPNs. Decentralised VPNs with the tunnel provided by a home user, not a data centre with their IP ranges known publicly.
It's absurd, but that is precisely why a great number of people will believe it.
Man this is so sad. "It was used by criminals" is their argument? Everything is used by a "criminal" so everyrhing can get banned by that logic.
Exactly - I've been deleting apps I don't absolutely need that complain about my vpn #proton #vpn all the way!
I don't use apps that want to KYC I don't use apps that block VPN/Tor I don't use websites that block VPN/Tor They think they are smart for blocking me. Little do they know I see exactky this as the service for knowing where to bring my business. Insteafd of offering a real sevice, they think they can indirectly get my money through state force. GFY.
They are working on it. Gold&Silver, Bitcoin& Monero if non-KYC is what they can't take. Everything else will be up for grabs.
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