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Exposed: Israeli spies control your VPN (mronline.org)
7 points by Derelicts on Sept 13, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Interesting if true. Someone has to verify facts presented independently. Since the source MintPress News, first reporting from them can't be trusted at all.

Looking into it, it seems accurate, but it's not first reporting.

What is Kape Technologies? What you need to know about the parent company of CyberGhost VPN Analysis: VPNs should be about enhancing privacy, but CyberGhost's parent company gives us trust issues. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-kape...

Israeli cybersecurity firm buys ExpressVPN for close to $1b Kape Technologies has been acquiring a number of companies in the VPN and data security space in recent years; this deal is one of the biggest buys by an Israeli company https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-cybersecurity-firm-buy...


> While ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate and other Kape Technologies products may well be safe to use, activists and revolutionaries—particularly those who work on issues such as Palestine—should at least know the company’s history before reflexively trusting it.

This conclusion makes NO sense given everything that was written previously. Also, holy shit, if TFA is true...




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