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From Slate: When Netflix Pays ISPs for Faster Access, Its Service Gets … Faster
Golden Frog, which makes VyprVPN, had made a pretty stunning observation. The company presents evidence that ISPs are subtly working to block users’ attempts to implement encryption, perhaps because it is data-intensive.
October 14, 2014
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From TechDirt: Revealed: ISPs Already Violating Net Neutrality To Block Encryption And Make Everyone Less Safe Online
The filing comes from VPN company Golden Frog and discusses “two recent examples that show that users are not receiving the open, neutral, and uninterrupted service to which the Commission says they are entitled.”
October 12, 2014
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From TechRepublic: Use VPN security to protect iPads and iPhones from new security flaw
Golden Frog VyprVPN for its ease of setup, simplicity of use, infrastructure, and pricing options. Organizations with a high number of iOS users could be live on VyprVPN 2.0 rather quickly.
February 25, 2014
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From The Consumerist: FCC Filing: “At Least One” ISP Violating Net Neutrality By Blocking Encrypted Traffic
Golden Frog also points out that no current or previously existing rule prevents wireless broadband companies from interfering with the traffic they carry in this way, because mobile companies have not been subject to the same open internet regulations as wired broadband carriers.
October 15, 2014
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From The Globe and Mail: Canadian researcher proposes new way to shut down Netflix ‘content tourists’
Golden Frog Co-CTO Philip Molter was interviewed for an article in The Globe and Mail regarding the recent attempt by Netflix to block VPNs and proxies. Here’s an excerpt:
February 6, 2016
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From The Hill: Cuomo’s Plea to Deputize Tech Companies in Consumer Surveillance is Deeply Misguided
It seems like every time a bad guy commits a crime in the United States, an elected official finds a way to place some of the blame on the internet, or on edge providers for not doing their part to prevent that crime.
February 2, 2018
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From The Verge: Edward Snowden issues ‘call to arms’ for tech companies in secret SXSW meeting
Snowden held a streamed question-and-answer session with roughly two dozen people from across the technology and policy world, which participant Sunday Yokubaitis, president of online privacy company Golden Frog, described as a “call to arms” for tech companies to foil spying with better privacy tools.
March 14, 2015
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From The Verge: How one man bypassed internet congestion and fixed his Netflix streaming
Nederkoorn began using a virtual private network, or VPN, which could essentially act as a virtual ISP that would route the traffic he requested from Netflix through a different set of connections than the ones being used when he went through Verizon.
July 17, 2014
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From ThreatPost: EFF Calls Out ISPs for Modifying StartTLS Encryption Commands
As Net Neutrality debates swirl, privacy advocates at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and VPN provider Golden Frog have gone public with a Federal Communications Commission filing that got more attention for accusations that Verizon FIOS customers were having their Netflix streaming service throttled back.
November 11, 2014
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Data Retention Passes Again, This Time in Germany
Less than 2 weeks after data retention legislation went into effect in Australia, the lower house of Parliament in Germany has voted in favor of its own data retention legislation. The law will require ISPs and telcos to keep customer metadata for up to 10 weeks.
October 19, 2015
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Giant Ransomware Attack Again Highlights Widespread Privacy Risks
WannaCry ransomware attack that plagued the Internet recently, drawing unprecedented attention to cybersecurity and widespread vulnerability to attacks. In the wake of this news, we wanted to not only look at what happened, but also spend a bit of time talking about what ransomware is, if you’re at risk, and what you can do to protect yourself from this and other serious risks online.
May 16, 2017