⚡️🚨 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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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.
Where were these servers physically located?
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?
Funny to see this ~1 week after our overlords in the EU complained about how people are using VPNS to circumvent online KYC.
only knowing that Spain, Ukraine, France and Belgium are one of the countries that collaborated in this, shows what their true intentions are.
33 👻
There will be signs.
Nostrvpn?
I have torrented over i2p. it's oddly one of the fastest things you can do on i2p. I think it's worth it.
Perfect environment for nostr vpn to shine. The cat and mouse fight regarding vpns would be fun to watch
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.
Everyone is a criminal on the internet
View quoted note →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.
By that logic, all #fiat currency needs immediate confiscation!
Enable a #vpn on your phone and be astonished how many apps stop working. Some will actually call you out for using a vpn, some will just not work.
It's a great way to filter the apps you could do without!
Never go online without a (trustworthy) vpn.
Probably. Unlikely that they've put such an operation together in such a short time.
You know what else is being used by criminals - now more than ever before?
Bitcoin
Wall street are the biggest criminals in this world.
This is why I do t use condoms. 😂
Many countries
@Sirius developed one as if he knew we'd be asking for one.
Interesting. I don't have a lot of apps but I can see that this could be the case. I heard even X is blocking access if a VPN is detected.
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.
Decentralised Nostr relays over i2p when?
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.
