- May 4, 2020
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Biggest reason why Nord sucks in particular is the breach in 2019. NordVPN had a data breach back in 2019 (breach occurred 19+ months ago!), though they only notified customers well after the breach occurred. This is pretty common, though. Many data breaches occur, but they are only discovered, days, weeks, or even months after the damage has already been done. However, in this breach, a number of encryption keys, Nord's very own encryption keys kept to maintain the integrity of the traffic from your connection to their DNS servers, and another key for their websites HTTPS link was stolen. Hackers can use those keys for various attacks, specifically to target individuals via MITM attacks, and anyone who visits the real website that has now been infected. On top of that, the hackers had root access, which to me is insane. It wasn't a social engineering attack, they hacked a remote server that employees use to log in for work. Clearly, if you aren't using the most secure, open-source software out there for remote connections, then I would have a hard time trusting you as a company in your ability to operate.mullvad is undoubtedly the best vpn because (info for those who dont know) you dont use any identification when you create an account and you can pay with crypto, so even if they are compromised mullvad have no idea who you are. they are the only vpn like that that i know of.
why dont you like nordvpn though? im only sus about them because they are a big company and that always brings corruption, but what in particular dont you like?
In my personal experience (using more than 3 years ago):
Customer service is lack-luster. I have to make a chain of emails because they seem to only answer one question per email, in which my email clearly has more than one question and more than one question mark just to make it abundantly clear THAT I HAVE MORE THAN ONE QUESTION (lol).
They don't take Monero. Enough said.
Blocked IPs. (To be expected; big VPN provider with blocked IPs on popular websites? Who would've thought!)
Connection drop-outs and slow-downs.
Mullad has been audited multiped times over the years and have better practices in place for when a breach does occur. Overall a fantastic service with not a single IP blocked by any big website it seems! Better 'no logs' policy, and no data breaches... yet. And they recently worked with Tor to create a browser. Though that browser isn't as good as Librewolf or Brave, just yet according to the EFF.