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Raymond said: "Hi all, PIA advises us that there was a IP address
vulnerability"
Was this part of the pop up update I received yesterday ?
Thanks



On 1 December 2015 at 09:51, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK Daniel and Cranky, thanks for your inputs.I do have the little green
> guy at the top but on earlier version it did not work that way and yes I
> installed PIA the same way Cranky.On that earlier version I had to go
> through the manager to get it working. Anyway, I am doing all my searching
> now through "Framabee" and I will not resubscribe to PIA. Thanks.
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:36 AM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> As I understand it, and I recommend that you get a second opinion, if you
>> have the little green man icon at the top then you're using the PIA client,
>> but if you connect by going through the Network Manager icon, then
>> selecting from the VPN list, that this is the OpenVPN client.
>>
>> The little green man part I'm sure of, the NM/VPN/OpenVPN part I'm 50%
>> sure.  So check that.
>>
>> I'm assuming that you installed your Linux client the same way I did, by
>> following
>> https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/ubuntu-openvpn.
>> At some point in that process it does seem to want to install OpenVPN, so
>> we could be good to go, but I would investigate that further.
>>
>> I updated my little green man on my Windows machines, I haven't seen an
>> update for Linux yet.
>>
>> Still, PIA was possibly the first to offer a fix for this security issue
>> (even though the first fix didn't work), then they followed up with a very
>> explanatory letter saying that they were wrong and that we should do Fix
>> #2.  That gives me some comfort knowing that they're on the ball.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 at 05:06 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all, PIA advises us that there was a IP address vulnerability but at
>>> the end of the explanation they note that if we are connecting to their
>>> service with a native Open VPN client there is no client side fix
>>> required.How do I know if I'm connecting with a native OpenVPN client? Not
>>> sure what that means.Can anyone clear this up for me, thanks.
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