• oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      10 days ago

      These auditors specifically are Radically Open Security out of Amsterdam, their website lists their team with names, pictures, and descriptions, I picked one at random and they had a realistic web presence.

      There is no way to prove what they are actually running, other than audits. Anything a legit system could send, a malicious one could send too.

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      9 days ago

      Bit concerned you’re asking questions that aren’t just answered by the webpage oscardejarjayes linked to, but by the link itself “completed-by-radically-open-security”.

      I 100% get the skepticism, but VPNs inherently require trust on the other side, it’s literally impossible to actually “prove” it’s legit. But this is also true of any means whatsoever to connect to the internet. You cannot be truly anonymous online unless you rely on SOMEONE to obscure your identity for you.

      Mullvad have done the best means of building up evidence, if ever got found out as lying, they’d immediately lose 90%+ of their customers.

      And to be honest, allowing and actively encouraging customers to pay by cash would make them a pretty shit Fed honeypot, too.