#392: Resisting Online Surveillance with Viktor from IVPN
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Join Marty as he sits down with Viktor from IVPN to discuss online privacy and the surveillance traps set by online companies, including most VPNs.
Follow Viktor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vonthedock
Check out IVPN: https://www.ivpn.net/
6:10 - VPN convention
10:42 - VPNs explained
16:23 - VPN traps
19:23 - TOR
23:10 - Running your own VPN
26:30 - Vetting VPN services
35:23 - Wireguard
39:28 - Paying for a VPN privately
42:09 - LN privacy and Monero
45:33 - Fedimint
53:14 - Viktor's story, don't be a coomer
1:05:55 - Attacks on IVPN
1:07:59 - How the current internet makes VPNs necessary
1:12:22 - Expanding IVPN
1:17:34 - State attack vectors on VPNs
1:22:50 - Final thoughts
1:26:02 - Plugs
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| 0:00.0 | So, Freestitjit your boy, Marty, here to introduce this rip of TFTC. |
| 0:09.0 | I sat down with Victor from IVPN. |
| 0:14.0 | Very enthralling conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | If you're a VPN user, you want to learn more about the industry, more about how |
| 0:23.3 | everything works, things to look out for this episode is for you. And if you're just a privacy |
| 0:28.6 | advocate or just interested in interesting conversations, this is the rip for you. Top four boost |
| 0:36.0 | of RIP 391, the epic of sudden deaths, epidemic of sudden deaths with Ed Dowd. |
| 0:43.6 | At Eric 9,000, 50,000 sats. |
| 0:45.7 | Thank you for everything you do. |
| 0:47.0 | Keep up the great work. |
| 0:48.0 | Stay humble, stack sats. |
| 0:49.5 | Eric, thank you for supporting this show. |
| 0:52.7 | Rabbit Hole Recap, Citadel Dispatch, and I see your activity on Unfound. You're quite active. Thank you for supporting this show rabbit hole recap citadel dispatch and i see your activity |
| 0:56.2 | on unfound you're quite active thank you |
| 0:58.1 | for the support |
| 0:58.7 | of the show and all the others that you support |
| 1:02.2 | at mark c |
| 1:05.3 | 1,000 sats |
| 1:06.9 | no no uh no message there |
| 1:10.0 | at nick underscore dose 169 nice sats. |
| 1:13.4 | Cheers. |
| 1:14.7 | At Joel W. 111 sets. |
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