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NordVPN Update Adds Native Support for Apple Silicon Macs

Shirasaki said:
Apple's built-in "VPN" is just merely a login portal for a few popular protocols. In places where VPN is actually mandatory, those "VPN" you mentioned here will not work, because the technology to block connections through those protocols has been up and running for decades.
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This is probably just going to confuse users more. Also any “VPN” which doesn’t include private relay since it’s not a VPN- will take priority over private relay.


I few things here I wanted to mention here: first, a Network Extension based VPN such as a Packet Tunnel Provider, or even a device-configured VPN, will always takes precedence over Private Relay. So any traffic that is going over the device-configured VPN or a Packet Tunnel Provider is not eligible for Private Relay. This is mentioned in the Note section out on the Packet Tunnel Provider documentation. Next, on this point, if traffic on the system is not going through a device-configured or Network Extension VPN then it can be eligible for Private Relay.

Lastly, if there is a local network VPN that the device is not aware of, for example a VPN that is not running on the device, then the device would not be aware of this VPN and the traffic on the device would be eligible for Private Relay, unless the user disables Private Relay on that specific network.

Matt Eaton
DTS Engineering, CoreOS
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Do people really want to trust your security to a VPN that has been hacked? NordVPN was hacked in 2019.

FYI: I use Expressvpn, and have used them for several years. I am very happy with their service and with their support.
 
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MRrainer said:
As Ed Snowden said: rent a VPS with Bitcoin and run your own with Wireguard or OpenVPN.

And run it inside a tails VM, not on your main desktop.
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Indeed. If people are that paranoid (not saying it's not justified) they shouldn't use the internet on that system. I had a client that requested (demanded) that their core business server not be connected to their in-house network. True it lost some ability to track internal threats, but it worked for them. Supporting it was a pain sometimes because there was no remote connections from the vendor support to that system.

Wasn't OpenVPN hacked?
 
hot-gril said:
I'm sure if you're privacy-focused, you aren't buying these with credit card, but in case you do... ExpressVPN is really annoying and forces you to set up auto-renew. I had to set a reminder 3 years later to cancel or get charged some large amount of money to auto-renew another 3 years. I assume this isn't an issue if you use BTC, which they do accept.
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I don't use crypto as the infrastructure to legally handle these is still in beta in my country and I want no legal problems with the government snooping around in my affairs because I use cypto.
Nothing against the technology itself, it's just that my country is not ready.

For now I use paypal with Nord VPN and you can easily delete any auto-renewal.
 
JippaLippa said:
I don't use crypto as the infrastructure to legally handle these is still in beta in my country and I want no legal problems with the government snooping around in my affairs because I use cypto.
Nothing against the technology itself, it's just that my country is not ready.

For now I use paypal with Nord VPN and you can easily delete any auto-renewal.
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Encryption can draw unwarranted attention from governments.
 
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