Alright, since Facebook released a VPN service a little while ago but they're actively advertising it as a secure and privacy friendly service, I felt like - although I'm very busy right now - I should do a security/privacy blog post about this.

If you even slightly care about your own privacy or the privacy of anyone you're communicating with, for the love of God, don't use this service.

Hereby a blog post explaining stuffs: https://much-security.nl//...

Facebook + VPN + Private.
Hahahahahaha are you making a joke @linuxxx?

Oh wait your serious 😱
Wait, a Virtual Public Network with a gaping big hole in it for tracking and monitoring your every use 🤦‍♂️ please tell me people aren’t this stupid...

@C0D4 I wish so badly I was making this up 😩

@JoshBent @Cyanide and everyone else I'm forgetting, just a heads up ;)

facebook should just die already...
I dont even see the point of using it anymore since whatsapp and things like 9gag

@simulate Well, your data is still getting sucked up into Facebook when using WhatsApp!

@linuxxx Nice blog post there! Really good!
One thing though, I really don't like the font you're using. I kind of need to focus a lot more to read it properly :/

Get cancer and die, zuck.

@aaxa In the beginning the feedback was 50/50 of that font. Now it's a lot more people disliking it so will change it soon :)

@linuxxx Ah okay! Sounds good! I find fonts like Raleway (even though it's WIDELY used) a really good font :)

lol, I didnt even hear about that yet anywhere, facebook vpn? are they going to try to get chinese people into the social network or just to mine data?

@JoshBent Probs the mining data part haha

@JoshBent @linuxxx
It’s all about the mining

http://breitbart.com/tech/2017/...

I had to stop reading as got distracted by the casing. Is it Facebook or facebook. And why is google in lowercase but not Instagram and WhatsApp?

No VPN is good unless it's HQ is in a country you didn't know existed. Not even ironic this time, local data protection laws really matter when it comes to VPN services and obscure small countries offer some pretty good deals on that.

@C0D4 Please don't reference Breitbart. It's like taking your facts from a Russian propaganda network... o wait...

@Froot in this case... it’s pretty accurate 😂

@C0D4 well... Maybe this once 😄

They must be kidding

@linuxxx @C0D4 wait.. the onavo thing is theirs? damn, saw it popping up long time ago all over the internet and the playstores, did they buy them or were they always a branch of facebook?

@JoshBent Facebook bought them in 2013 I think it said.
So this isn’t exactly new news just Facebook being caught out.

@C0D4 always thought those data savers will eventually find their way into bigger companies to be abused, because they are not even VPNs, just unsecure proxies, to freely fish through

I think 'VPN' has just become a massive buzzword lately so even the layman has heard of it and is vaguely aware it's _supposed_ to increase your privacy online. Facebook I guess is just capitalizing on it. As, really, any smart business would...

This is a new level of scamming unaware people... well that’s just sad

Facebook owns a VPN service?
Oh boy, what could go wrong when using that ...

@billgates Because I'm tired as fuck and couldn't care less about properly using uppercase/lowercase namings!

I guess the only way to stop this mess is by brutally spamming it with false informations?
Is there a project that just likes, comments and texts random stuff on facebook that i'm not even interested in to make their tracking worthless?
Guess this would also be good for internet traffic.
Like creating false traffic on websites and googling something in the background just to make their data collection useless.
Then you could use their services normally without worrying.

@linuxxx o.... yea part of me thought u were drunk again but the other was thinking u were trying to say something...

It’s advertised correctly. Not sure what you’re worried about. It’s virtually private, just like it says.

@yamatoman Read the article, it explains everything perfectly!

@Floydian Tbh I'm with her on this one

Don't kill zuck yet. Facebook is pushing out some really good open source stuff, wouldn't want to lose that.

You are the man 👍

@Froot If losing that makes that we get rid of a mass surveillance network, I'd vote for that any day.

For me I am run in my own openvpn though it is on a vps in USA I think I need to change my hosting to Europe

@gitpush Yes you do haha!

@linuxxx sorry boss 😅

@linuxxx but it won't so...
And their open source web stuff is top notch so I'm grateful for that.

@Froot Honestly, that would probably continue even if Facebook perished.

@Floydian If the world had fewer people like that, it would be a better place.

@Condor Doesn't self hosted VPN sort of defeat the purpose?

I use VPN mainly for 2 purposes:
1) rapidly switching my IP and spoofing my location
2) hiding my traces

A self hosted VPN wouldn't good for either of those 😄

@Condor good points, I agree.

@shb743 Yeah something is going to shit with the nginx configs (tried to fix it for three hours yesterday) and I won't be able to fix it until I get home tonight 😩

@ArchLinux Yeah I fell asleep right before I wanted to start on it haha 😅

I used a vpn at work to bypass the idiotic openDNS service the IT-lead put up... its supposed to filter pornography but it ended up filtering several development tool websites.... however since i used regularily used VPNs he blocked all VPN subdomains so im unable to use any at all now <.<
(he refuses to remove or modify it stating its for security reasons, and apparently he set up a full packet tracker and sniffer too so 0 privacy now)