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[–] [Sticky] • 7 pts 3y (edited 3y)

EDIT: Read the comments below to learn who Kape was and currently is.

Kape - About Us (Investors and Privacy)

Mission Statement - Privacy Makes Us Different

Since time immemorial, the right to privacy has been the bedrock of our society. Backed by the power of privacy, people have conquered empires, created nations, art, and democracies. Privacy is a gift that has given people the innate ability to have freedom of thought, expression, and action. Privacy affords everyone a fair share of the narrative.

Throughout history, there have been attempts to withhold the right to privacy from different parts of society; but now more than ever, we see that privacy for the majority of individuals is greatly endangered.

In today's world, when a fair share of our thoughts, conversations and actions are all taking place in the digital sphere, these aspects of our privacy are in dire need of constant protection. Blind mechanisms are needed to continually guard our pockets of privacy.

Our mission is to ensure that every individual has a private sphere, a digital room of one's own, bringing control back to individuals in an age where privacy has been controlled by a privileged few.

To achieve this mission, we believe that an organisation, such as ours, which exists to fight for privacy must adhere to certain guiding principles:

Our Guiding Principles

  1. Zero Secrecy - openness as a guiding force - we believe that an organisation cannot ensure privacy for others without being open and transparent itself.

  2. Zero Reliance - we remove the need for you to trust anyone with your personal data by ensuring no one has it, including ourselves.

  3. Zero Data - sanctity of personal data - we believe each individual owns his own data therefore we will never store or attempt to sell what does not belong to us.

  4. 100% Customer first - we believe that all decisions should be made with the end user in mind, while maintaining profit as well as building a sustainable balance between social, environmental and economic profit.

  5. Zero Theater - what you see is what you get, we tell it as it is and deliver on what we promise to achieve.

  6. Zero Tier - net neutrality - we believe that all connections and data should be treated equally and without manipulation.

  7. 100% Honesty - we will say it as we see it, straightforward and direct.

  8. Zero Sidelining - life purpose - this is not a passing phase, this is our mission and we are determined to stick to it and overcome any obstacles which comes our way.

These are the 8 binding principles to which we adhere.

What changed in that page for the past 3 years:

Kape's vision is to provide consumers’ online autonomy to ensure a secure yet accessible personal digital experience. Kape has a team of 300 highly experienced individuals across eight global locations: United Kingdom, Israel, Germany, Romania, France, The Philippines, Cyprus and Isle of Man.

That part was removed in the updated versions below:

Kape is a leading ‘privacy-first’ digital security software provider to consumers. Through its range of privacy and security products, Kape focusses on protecting consumers and their personal data as they go about their daily digital lives. To date, Kape has millions of paying subscribers, supported by a team of over 350 people across eight locations worldwide. Kape has a proven track record of revenue and EBITDA growth, underpinned by a strong business model which leverages our digital marketing expertise. Through our subscription based platform, Kape has fast established a highly scalable SaaS-based operating model, geared towards capitalising on the vast global consumer digital privacy market.

That part was added in the updated version below:

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[–] • 12 pts 3y

Don't trust VPN providers. They can make a shit load more money by selling your data.

In most countries, VPN providers are required by law to log user traffic via a VPN. If you've paid for your VPN with anything tracable (cash, credit, etc.) you're tying your personal ID to your VPN activity.

You've been warned.

[–] • 5 pts 3y

I can't agree more.

My comment is specifically about showing what changes they did (removed countries in the list of "experienced individuals").

[–] • 3 pts 3y

oh I know.

My comment was for others to read, following yours

[–] • 3 pts 3y (edited 3y)

Don't trust VPN providers

NOT true for this one specific expensive VPN.

ExpressVPN was the best. Was.

It (ExpressVPN) had no control by USA/NSA it was 100% owned by named Chinese Nationals and safe from prying eyes by feds (CIA/ NSA/ NRO/ FBI/ DIA/ USDOJ/ State Dept INR/ USAFISR/ DOE/ DHS/ TFI/ ONSI/ NSF/ USPS) and run outside of INTERPOL control in Caribbean. Only China conceivably could tamper with ExpressVPN.

Unlike competitor paid VPNs :

  • ExpressVPN never kept any connection logs, and never once shows up in Federal US court proceedings documents [MOSSAD will change this starting now]. Not showing up in federal court proceedings ever is important to true privacy fanatics like me.

  • ExpressVPN never got hacked by large entities (NordVPN and many others had their servers infiltrated for months)

  • ExpressVPN never required mandatory software installation, you could laboriously set up a VPN using scripts and settings on Mac and Linux etc if desired.

  • ExpressVPN used VISA cash paid "vanilla style" cards and deliberately did not require the pre-paid cards to be affixed with a zip code registration. No VPN I know allowed that in 2021. It meant that they floated service without a 80 cent merchant lookup prior, and just hoped billing would go through.

  • ExpressVPN was fastest VPN, by far, and had hundreds of exit points, many with refreshed top tier colocation IPs, if truly paranoid you could exit their offshore in-house machines

I now will have a very hard time vetting and choosing a VPN recommendation for others.

Amusingly people like me are "beyond VPNS" and mostly utilize infiltrated and compromised home router exit points , and nearly "open" WIFI , within a state but not crossing state borders, within a single state, to not "stick out"

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[–] • 3 pts 3y

If you've paid for your VPN with anything tracable

It is much worse than this. A VPN always knows who you are... or at least has the critical piece of data that can unmask you. They know your true originating IP address. If you pay in say, bitcoin, they may not have your credit cared info but all you have done is make it a two step look up rather than a one step look up.

[–] • 1 pt 3y

Get a VPN.

Have your entire family use it.

Good luck proving individual anything with that degree of obfuscation.

[–] • 2 pts 3y

There are decentralized VPNs now. You won't even have to trust a provider because anyone can run a node and those running nodes can't look at your data. Use sentinel.co

[–] • 2 pts 3y

Bro I found this out first hand. Now i know im stupid. But I got express vpn. Shouldn’t have used any real information. Should have used Bitcoin. But I didn’t. Now my email Is spammed. With bullshit. It was night and day the amount of spam I got before getting express was virtually 0 and after I get several a day. It sucks and there’s no way to fix it. It should be illegal or something. Selling information. They should give you the option. Ask me, can we sell your information and give you a cut of the profits. Maybe then I’d say yea. Making money off everyone and you don’t even see anything from it except bullshit

[–] • 2 pts 3y

Did they at least have the decency to send you dick pics? There should at least be a few male enhancement ads in the spam somewhere, there always is.

[–] • 5 pts 3y

It's too late for most adults, but STOP USING YOUR REAL NAME on anything, at all.

John Smith. Jane Smith. Jose Garcia. Maria Garcia. Birthday ALWAYS incorrect. Vitals always incorrect.

When you apply for jobs DO NOT USE YOUR REAL NAME. Use your real first name but a common last name. Work it out with HR, later. Blame a stalker.

Every online form you fill out is so that someone can sell the data from that form. Even if the creator of the form doesn't intend for it to be used this way, your Internet activity is being spied upon by literally every major company and every major state actor. "Marketing data" is not considered private, even though, legally, it should be. First, they spy on you to market at you better, and when the tech is working, it is turned over to the intelligence community, which has become monolithic, in nature.

A VPN is useless, anyways, because your device details are available to anything you connect to. Your device will betray you, even if you have everything on lock down.

Use USED devices. From pawn shops. PHYSICALLY DISABLE all necessary antennaes; GPS, bluetooth, ANT, etc. Physically disable cameras. Physically disable the microphone. Use the jack and a headset for your microphone, so you can physically remove your external mic from the circuit. Literally everyone is listening, now, and your words are being transcribed into text.

Go make a fake EU residency card and apply to Google for your "Right to be forgotten."

Use an Internet subscription in someone else's name.

Use a cell phone is someone else's name. You can use a stripped down device and call forwarding to make it an absolute headache for even advanced trackers to figure out who you are. Never call out from your own number. Only call out from burner numbers on your stripped down device. There are many apps that give free numbers. Call out from your rotating burners. Forward your calls from your real phone to these numbers.

Use old accounts that have been abandoned by other people, then change the passwords. The AntiPublic leak and more recent ones have a plethora of usernames and passwords you can abscond with so that you always appear to be someone else.

Emails are, in no way, shape or form, private. Anyone can read them and see the relevant header data. The only safe way to use email is through one time burner accounts. It makes you impossible to subpoena. It makes you a real pain in the ass to track your communications.

Avoid cameras on your devices. They are able to assess your intelligence very accurately. Combined with your words, machine learning technology is tailoring media at you, specifically, to bring you to the desired "government approved" personal identity. They are "patterning" your minds and it works far better than you would like to think.

When online posting, use a 10 to 1 copy paste ratio. Meaning, if you are making a strong point in one place, be sure to copy/paste weak, completely different topics and viewpoints in other posts to make you a moving target. Just copy paste from other users who are wildly different.

Best advice of all: Abandon the use of devices as much as humanly possible. You will be happier and more grounded, as a result.

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[–] [deleted] • -1 pt 3y

None of these recommendations are necessary for normal and good people in the world that aren't paranoid schizophrenic.

[–] • 3 pts 3y

Why should I care about these new laws I follow the law.. why do I car e about security cameras I'm a good citezen...

Eat your grass sheople and like it!

You sound like a fucking idiot

[–] • 0 pt 3y

Calling people crazy is a Mossad tactic.

Kill yourself.

[–] • 3 pts 3y

https://archive.fo/kbgel

The issue is who he sold it to -- the notorious creator of some pernicious data-huffing ad-ware, Crossrider. The UK-based company was cofounded by an ex-Israeli surveillance agent and a billionaire previously convicted of insider trading who was later named in the Panama Papers. It produced software which previously allowed third-party developers to hijack users' browsers via malware injection, redirect traffic to advertisers and slurp up private data.

This really sucks, since I pay by the year and have more than half a year left on my account.

Crossrider changed its name to Kape Technologies PLC in 2018, in CEO Ido Erlichman's words, to escape the "strong association to the past activities of the company."

[–] • 0 pt 3y

I use mullvad on recommendation from torrentfreak.

[–] • 6 pts 3y

The whole thing is ridiculous. Normally you have a company you pay to give you an internet connection. Your data flows through them and they connect to other sites. Then they leak your data, so you hire another company that you connect to, who then connects to other sites, and you pay them in addition, to not leak your data. Then they leak your data too. Do we need a VPN VPN?

[–] [deleted] • 6 pts 3y

I'm still trying to find a vpn provider that's not totally pozzed. When VPNs started to be heavily advertized I knew something was up. Where was all that money coming from?

[–] [deleted] • 5 pts 3y

Gotta get yourself a virtual private nigger. Thats when you pay for a niggers internet with cash and route everything through a rasberry pi you leave on his network.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt 3y

Thanks for reminding me of that one. I've been following him on youtube for a while now. He's a good guy.

[–] • 1 pt 3y

Rent a server with Monero (or some other untraceable means) in some country with poor ties to the US. Setup your own VPN.

Or maybe go with this?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NordVPN

NordVPN is a personal virtual private network service provider. NordVPN is based in Panama. The country has no mandatory data retention laws and does not participate in the Five Eyes or Fourteen Eyes alliances.

I've heard of Nord but never used it.

[–] • 3 pts 3y

Nord has been compromised soooooo many times, I wouldn't trust them with a brownie recipe, let alone anything more important.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt 3y

Try Mulvad Nord advertises on television that's like using twitter as a vpn...

[–] • 5 pts 3y

I saved this from a Voat user back in October 2020, back when Kape made some other big news (I don't recall what it was):

Alright, where to start...

Kape technologies, previously known as CrossRider founded by Koby Menachemi, ex spy from unit 8200.

"Unit 8200 (Hebrew: יחידה 8200‎, Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim) is an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption. It also appears in military publications as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps and is sometimes referred to as Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU)."

A lot more info here, both the article & comments are relevant. Notice the owner of PIA being the on the top.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21679682

Now PIA pre acquisition :

Known to sponsor servers for projects such as Snoonet (Reddit IRC), FreeNode, and much more.

https://freenode.net/<--- Get back to that at the end.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/12/private-internet-access-partners-reddit-irc-hub-snoonet/

They also aquired projects they only started as sponsors for, ie :

What they said in 2018 :

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/01/private-internet-access-creator-london-trust-media-acquires-linux-journal/

What happened in 2019 :

https://www.linuxjournal.com/

Hmmm...

What other projects and people are under PIA ?

Well, there's Karpeles lab

https://klb.jp/l/en-US/

https://www.cnet.com/news/mt-gox-bitcoin-exchange-former-ceo-karpeles-lands-new-job/

The Mt Gox (member them ?) CEO was hired as CTO despite his criminal conviction in Japan.

Ok, so now on to Voat.

In the past XX months we went from Putt keeping us informed of his work & being very active in the community. X months ago a first wave of ddos, Putt still being himself. X months ago a 2nd wave of ddos, the "Now Hiring" followed by the "Where We Find Ourselves" post and nothing more. 

Redacted -

Now for the interesting bit. Out of the blue a goat discovered an inactive page, https://voat .co/about. The regular page is https://voat .co/content/about. The 2 important things are on the bottom of that page, what's the contact email & who owns the Voat mascot?

<Hello@edon.garden> & Edon ---> http://Edon.Garden

That name has been in the code for some time now, at least X months. The "new" contact email's domain was registered in March & updated mid June.

Guess who's chaperoning that project ?

Imperial Family, the new London Trust Media, post merger with Kape Technologies.

https://imperialfamily.com/

So... shady as fuck (((Kape))) buys PIA (LTM), they rebrand as Imperial Family and suddenly Edon appears as one of their projects. The inactive page links to the same site, it's in the code & Putt is MIA.

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[–] • 4 pts 3y (edited 3y)

Oh I remember now-- It had something to do with PuttItOut, who was the CEO of Voat. Lotta shady behind-the-scenes stuff went on with an angel investor that Putt alluded to, but couldn't say. Maybe another previous goat could chime in because I didn't document or even keep track of the whole thing. A lot of people thought Putt sold out. I personally think that every man has his price, and sometimes that price is his reputation or his family.

The implication is that Kape's holding company was the angel investor of Voat, and was privy to anything being discussed between members on the site (DMs), and had tremendous influence in moderation. And could say "oy vey shut it down" any time they wanted.

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PIA was Voat's angel investor. They eventually breached their contract with Putt by unilaterally ceasing funding. Putt wasnt willing to sue them for breach of contract, funded Voat himself for a bit, then shutdown the site.

[–] • 1 pt 3y (edited 3y)

I doubt there was need of an investor to old voat.co.

@daskapitalistclaimed : "PIA was Voat's angel investor"

Voat.co needed no outside funding, and Bitcoin hoard was the proven reason

In 2017 voat.co was down to their last 61 million US dollars provable via a bitcoin history wallet tool :

voat.co's two BTC wallets (posted by puttitout in past):

" 1PhBpbED6uEnrvy5s9F9axBZbK8fWAeZdc"

" 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k"

They're both deposit addresses to the same bitcoin wallet. You can check that for yourself here: https://www.walletexplorer.comIf you search that wallet back to around this time or a little before, the lies become apparent. Here's just before that time.. https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/00000014ea8b260f?page=279670

See?

This shows voat had over 14,000 bitcoin in this wallet just before puttitout announcement of NOT SEEKING ANY MORE DONATIONS. Now, that 14,000 bitcoin not as much money as it would be today, at that time bitcoin was worth over $4,400 a piece. So, that’s still over 61 million dollars. They could have funded the next 20 years of voat for $780,000, if they were really paying over 6k a month, and not even put a dent in that.

With 61 million shown in that link , (over $600 million in 2021 coins), supposedly voat.co could get rid of cloudflare and use BitMitigate back then. But maybe the 61 million dollars was fed payments to voat.co to NOT stop using cloudflare ?

NOTE : those two wallet IDs are REAL and tracking sites for wallets showed that puttitout rarely took much out of his BTC wallets.

puttitout took his money and ran . There were no 'investors' other than the 2016-2017 bitcoin megatreasure given to voat.co

If puttitout merely TRANSFERRED his 14,000 BTC to a third cold coin wallet address, and in Aug 30 2021 at $48,108.10, for Sept 14th 2021 its $46,500.67) :

https://finance.yahoo.com/cryptocurrencies

$48,108.10 * 14,000 BTC for voat.co is $673,513,400 !!

over 600 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!

Puttitouts bitcoins from 2017 are worth this week, $673,513,400.00 !

HOLY FUCK!!!

He spent some before today obviously.

MORE wallets very briefly used on voat.co donation pages!:

voat.co's two additional very briefly used BTC wallets:

38 btc 2015 -- 1C4Q1RvUb3bzk4aaLVgGccnSnaHYFdESzY https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/2f50f67c6956988b?page=232

$48,108.10 * 38 BTC on wallet #3 for voat.co is $1,828,107.80 Aug 2021 !!

55 btc 2015-09-23 19:07:45 -- 1BFqer7P9qqqiirbC63KqxfuZYXxk6RrBZ https://www.walletexplorer.com/address/1BFqer7P9qqqiirbC63KqxfuZYXxk6RrBZ

$48,108.10 * 55 BTC on wallet #4 for voat.co is $2,645,945.50 Aug 2021 !!

So in addition to PuttitOuts 2017 BTC now worth $673,513,400, you would add those other two lesser used official voat.co holdings.

$673,513,400 + $2,645,945.50 + $1,828,107.80 = a shit ton of money transferred from in Voat.co's 3 wallets.

No wonder puttitout took down his donation page, and also said no ads ever needed for voat.co.

AOU needs a cold BTC or Monero wallet on this site NOW! (monero not traceable as easy)

The coins went into voat.co at a humble value, but puttitout BTC holdings went exponential nose bleed valuation, when the coins went up.

Disclaimer : there is a 20% chance voat.co 61 million dollars (proven by me) in 2017 was not all voat.co owned, and in a wallet called a " mycelium shared hot wallet ", but only a RETARD would have voat users be directed to keep storing into a shared online hot wallet. But its still a 20% chance, if he was a crypto newb. Also there is a 1% chance that www.walletexplorer.comis incorrectly assigning forensics. 1%. The failure is because of the logic used to track money in this paper by Reid and Harrigan : https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/49195/how-does-walletexplorer-know-which-wallets-belong-to-whom

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[–] • 0 pt 3y

So TLDR, Putt jewed us and left? Thanks for all that info-- I had thought that Putt was a better man than that, but once again it all comes down to the love of money. Damn shame.

[–] • 3 pts 3y

When you see JewWorld in there as one of the countries, you can bet they are logging and decrypting every byte. If Pegasus can hack El Chappo , It can damn sure hack your Android/Apple piece of shit.

[–] • 2 pts 3y

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-cybersecurity-firm-buys-expressvpn-for-close-to-1b/

(((Dan Pomerantz))), co-founder and co-CEO of ExpressVPN said the firm will now have access to more capital and resources “to accelerate our product development, deliver even more innovation to our users, and protect them from a wider range of threats.”

How does one locate a VPN service outside the US, reliable, has real privacy, and isn't owned by some kike firm?

[–] • 0 pt 3y

I had been planning on using Express VPN, but will have to start the research over from scratch. At the moment, I can say that AnonineVPN and FrootVPN are based in Seychelles....so far as I know, outside the reach of SIGINT Seniors Europe (SSEUR). IBVPN is based in Romania; not sure where it stands.

[–] • 2 pts 3y

Ok so can someone translate? Should I get rid of ExpressVPN? What’s the best alternative if so?

[–] • 2 pts 3y

I'll be dumping it soon. Probably in the next week or so at the most as they can't integrate systems that fast.

[–] • 1 pt 3y

I have it paid until April of 2022 so I’ll lose a little money but i can’t stay with them

[–] • 0 pt 3y

I go month to month. Yeah it costs more but I can cut them whenever I want.

[–] • 0 pt 3y

I am looking at PureVPN and Ivacy. Both seems to be owned by a Pakistani outfit.

https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/companies-secretly-own-dozens-vpns/

[–] • 0 pt 3y

What do you know about Nord?

[–] • 1 pt 3y

I know they got hacked a year or so ago and it turned out they were logging some shit they claimed they weren't. Nord claimed they just got ID/passwords and nothing else and the people behind it were not looking to steal data but instead of hand out free access to their friends.

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[–] • 3 pts 3y

Good find. Google searches "vpns not owned by the kikes" is not helping in replacing ExpressVPN.

[–] • 1 pt 3y

Find hosting that accepts crypto.

Check that they don't need a credit card to sign up. Many do, before you can pay in crypto.

Setup a low end VPS. Should be around $5/mo

Install VPN software on your VPS.

[–] • 2 pts 3y

Ben Shapiro pushes Express VPN. Don't trust him.

[–] • 1 pt 3y

There are decentralized VPNs now. Anyone can run a node and node operators can't look at your data.

Look at sentinel.co

[–] • 1 pt 3y

I think voat.xyz (aka talk.lol) is blocking ExpressVPN IP space

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt 3y

Doesn't Kape own Cyberghost vpn as well? I believe Cyberghost is out of Romania but I'm not so sure originating country matters much anymore- but I'm just a crusty old techphile with trust issues...

One bit of mitigation might be using the Tor browser through the vpn; things are slower and some websites may break.

[–] • 0 pt 3y

I'm genuinely curious why a VPN wouldn't be considered a giant honeypot.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt 3y

It would be an illegal wiretap unless their ToS said they were recording everything. If it was the government and a judge was crazy enough to let them run such a business, it would be entrapment. They don't need to do any of that because that's the purpose the 5 eyes serve. Americans can't spy on Americans so they have the kiwis or aussies or canadians or limeys to it for them. It's one big circle jerk. Also, you now have ALL the big sites giving direct access to the government. Heck, pigs can now log on to ebay and remove any listing they don't like. We're close to the final nail being driven into the internet we've known.

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