A nail in the coffin as NordVPN & Surfshark merge. - Surveillance Report 74 - Techlore
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If you adopt a Finish model to them where the fines scale according to the company, say they were to eat 25% of the assumed company value, then getting a fine hurt.
The other issue in Europe is that fines are charges they can't pass onto the consumers in the form of increased pricing, then you get fined until you die off if you try that scheme.
So the option may be to try and sweep it under the rug, but that also means that when it gets out, that fine will sting even more, and it WILL get out.
So the trend I have spotted is that they want less data and security have increased, even more so with GDPR.
Date: 2022-04-15
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Ninjam
Consolidation can absolutely be a good thing and is naturally going to happen in any market. Consolidation should not be confused with monopolization. Bigger companies can offer more competitive (cheaper or better) products, this is simple economies of scale. As long as there are still enough competitors around to keep the VPN market efficient and competitive consolidation is not a problem and can definitely be good for customers and right now, at least to me it seems like there are still plenty of options on the VPN market out there.
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Consolidation can absolutely be a good thing and is naturally going to happen in any market. Consolidation should not be confused with monopolization. Bigger companies can offer more competitive (cheaper or better) products, this is simple economies of scale. As long as there are still enough competitors around to keep the VPN market efficient and competitive consolidation is not a problem and can definitely be good for customers and right now, at least to me it seems like there are still plenty of options on the VPN market out there.
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Amipotsophspond
fines are pointless it simply becomes the cost of doing business and a calculated risk. jail time for top company executives for willful neglect and you would see it never happen once. if your going to do fines is should be a percentage of company revenue. do you think Microsoft cared it was fined a 1, 000, 000 dollars a day when it flooded the market it with internet explorer, but if that fine was just 1% of last year's company revenue per day it would have stopped one way or another in about a 100 days.
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fines are pointless it simply becomes the cost of doing business and a calculated risk. jail time for top company executives for willful neglect and you would see it never happen once. if your going to do fines is should be a percentage of company revenue. do you think Microsoft cared it was fined a 1, 000, 000 dollars a day when it flooded the market it with internet explorer, but if that fine was just 1% of last year's company revenue per day it would have stopped one way or another in about a 100 days.
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Astrocat
The government push for Photo ID probably isn't a push to -get peoples' selfies-, but it's not just a push to -save money-, either. Everything the elites in power do is aimed deliberately at increasing and solidifying their power, and ubiquitous Photo ID is an important part of that, as it feeds facial recognition in the video surveillance/control systems that they are already pushing out. I think your take on that was pretty naive.
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The government push for Photo ID probably isn't a push to -get peoples' selfies-, but it's not just a push to -save money-, either. Everything the elites in power do is aimed deliberately at increasing and solidifying their power, and ubiquitous Photo ID is an important part of that, as it feeds facial recognition in the video surveillance/control systems that they are already pushing out. I think your take on that was pretty naive.
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Paul
There would be plenty of pros associated with a merger if they did merge their infrastructure - maybe not enough to turn this into a good thing, but some. In particular, if you actually have a good-faith log free VPN, the more people using it, the more difficult correlation attacks are. The cons are of course well understood. But a merger in name only gives you most of the cons and none of the pros.
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There would be plenty of pros associated with a merger if they did merge their infrastructure - maybe not enough to turn this into a good thing, but some. In particular, if you actually have a good-faith log free VPN, the more people using it, the more difficult correlation attacks are. The cons are of course well understood. But a merger in name only gives you most of the cons and none of the pros.
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Anders
28: 11 so you want cyber bullies to rain free? harrasment is what you want to happen and escalate? seems to me you 2 just shot your selfs in the foot.
30: 25 you do know that 90% of all criminals use prepayed simcards for they criminal activity combined with stolen phones so they cant be tracked?
You guys know nothing about why people want to stop criminals in they track.
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28: 11 so you want cyber bullies to rain free? harrasment is what you want to happen and escalate? seems to me you 2 just shot your selfs in the foot.
30: 25 you do know that 90% of all criminals use prepayed simcards for they criminal activity combined with stolen phones so they cant be tracked?
You guys know nothing about why people want to stop criminals in they track.
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Lyfan
Internet standards call for supporting concatenation, using the + symbol, which you to provide a specific reply address to another party. If that party sells your email address to anyone, that flags the source immediately. But oddly enough a number of large ISPs, including Google, refuse to support concatenation. Making it much harder to track who is passing out your address.
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Internet standards call for supporting concatenation, using the + symbol, which you to provide a specific reply address to another party. If that party sells your email address to anyone, that flags the source immediately. But oddly enough a number of large ISPs, including Google, refuse to support concatenation. Making it much harder to track who is passing out your address.
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Shapeless
VPNs used to be free, now what people see are VPN ads on their TV that claim using a VPN protects them from credit card info theft, companies tracking them and what not.
Like if changing your IP address and masking the traffic on public wifi spots was to somehow protect you from everything.
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VPNs used to be free, now what people see are VPN ads on their TV that claim using a VPN protects them from credit card info theft, companies tracking them and what not.
Like if changing your IP address and masking the traffic on public wifi spots was to somehow protect you from everything.
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TwstedTV
4: 20 GPS for any aircraft is available publicly as its public record, you can even track any aircraft on a website, actually over 50 websites but there are 3 of them that are most famous.
2 of them are called FlightRadar24 and flightaware
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4: 20 GPS for any aircraft is available publicly as its public record, you can even track any aircraft on a website, actually over 50 websites but there are 3 of them that are most famous.
2 of them are called FlightRadar24 and flightaware
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Dan
At 10: 35, there are many reasons why companies don't report cyber attacks is because mainly, not only stock goes down but insurance companies won't want to insure them. This is 1 of many but this is a big one.
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At 10: 35, there are many reasons why companies don't report cyber attacks is because mainly, not only stock goes down but insurance companies won't want to insure them. This is 1 of many but this is a big one.
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