Amin Sabeti <[email protected]> writes: > There are lots of reasons. For example one of them is it's FREE and another > one is sometimes some VPNs are working in Iran and some of them not. Also, > the Iranian people have trust to the foreign VPNs more than the reseller > inside Iran.
Are there good reasons not to use a VPN service provided by a more known and trusted provider such as Riseup[0], or the pirate bay? Riseup's VPN is free, although it costs us money, and we are currently struggling there, so have been working on a fundraising drive now - but for groups in places like Iran, we would not expect you to pay. full disclosure: i'm with riseup (and consider myself trustworthy!), and I know a lot of activists also have a high degree of trust in the work we do at riseup, perhaps partially because we've been around for 12 years and have a lot of history with social movements. Issues of trust are complicated, and I totally understand the reason you state for the reseller inside of Iran... but I wouldn't just pick whatever free vpn provider you can find and then later find out if its trustworthy. micah -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
